ring name size

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Mon Sep 4 15:04:20 CEST 2023


04/09/2023 11:33, Morten Brørup:
> > From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas at monjalon.net]
> > Sent: Monday, 4 September 2023 11.31
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > When creating a ring, we need to know the maximum length of the name.
> > It seems this value is not documented.
> > And there is no constant defined.
> 
> It is defined (with a description) here:
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/dpdk/latest/source/lib/ring/rte_ring_core.h#L52

Indeed, thank you Morten. I missed it when looking simply at rte_ring.h.
So we are just missing to mention it in the doxygen of the related functions.

> > There is only RTE_MEMZONE_NAMESIZE.
> > 
> > Should we document the maximum length as 31 and add a constant?
> > #define RTE_RING_NAME_SIZE RTE_MEMZONE_NAMESIZE





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