From: Matthew Hall <mhall@mhcomputing.net>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: difficulty w/ RTE_NEXT_ABI
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 19:25:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151122002518.GA7196@mhcomputing.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2295250.tyqBLnBnCL@xps13>
On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 11:44:20AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> The new mbuf provides packet type instead of flags.
> So the processing in this function is changed and the variable name is
> different to reflect this.
But the data type of the variable is the same, and this is an internal
always_inline function.
So again I am confused what advantage we got from RTE_NEXT_ABI here, and how
you have multiple copies of RTE_NEXT_ABI on a single symbol when it is a
binary variable.
This doesn't really answer the bigger question about the reasoning.
Matthew.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-22 0:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-21 8:49 difficulty w/ RTE_NEXT_ABI Matthew Hall
2015-11-21 10:44 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-11-22 0:25 ` Matthew Hall [this message]
2015-11-22 20:59 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-11-22 23:25 ` Matthew Hall
2015-11-23 0:13 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-11-23 3:53 ` Matthew Hall
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