Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 2/2] ethdev: move egress metadata to dynamic field

2019-11-01 Thread Andrew Rybchenko
On 10/31/19 7:48 PM, Viacheslav Ovsiienko wrote: > The dynamic mbuf fields were introduced by [1]. The egress metadata is > good candidate to be moved from statically allocated field tx_metadata to > dynamic one. Because mbufs are used in half-duplex fashion only, it is > safe to share this dynamic

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 2/2] ethdev: move egress metadata to dynamic field

2019-10-31 Thread Olivier Matz
On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 04:48:26PM +, Viacheslav Ovsiienko wrote: > The dynamic mbuf fields were introduced by [1]. The egress metadata is > good candidate to be moved from statically allocated field tx_metadata to > dynamic one. Because mbufs are used in half-duplex fashion only, it is > safe

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 2/2] ethdev: move egress metadata to dynamic field

2019-10-31 Thread Viacheslav Ovsiienko
The dynamic mbuf fields were introduced by [1]. The egress metadata is good candidate to be moved from statically allocated field tx_metadata to dynamic one. Because mbufs are used in half-duplex fashion only, it is safe to share this dynamic field with ingress metadata. The shared dynamic field c