On 10/6/22 20:29, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
On Thu, 6 Oct 2022 22:31:24 +0530 Hanumanth Pothula <[email protected]> wrote:+ /** + * Points to an array of mempools. + * + * Valid only when RTE_ETH_RX_OFFLOAD_MUL_MEMPOOL flag is set in + * Rx offloads. + * + * This provides support for multiple mbuf pools per Rx queue. + * + * This is often useful for saving the memory where the application can + * create a different pools to steer the specific size of the packet, thus + * enabling effective use of memory. + * + * Note that on Rx scatter enable, a packet may be delivered using a chain + * of mbufs obtained from single mempool or multiple mempools based on + * the NIC implementation. + */ + struct rte_mempool **rx_mempools; + uint16_t rx_npool; /** < number of mempools */ + uint64_t reserved_64s[2]; /**< Reserved for future fields */ void *reserved_ptrs[2]; /**< Reserved for future fields */Better and safer to just take up some of those existing reserved fields.
I don't understand why. We're braking ABI anyway.
