From: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
To: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>, <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/ixgbe: shrink size of context index
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2026 14:18:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <105e86f9-0f2b-46d4-bea3-4b55bf5ed92a@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260408154804.1596060-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com>
On 4/8/2026 5:48 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> The ixgbe driver only supports two contexts, so using uint32_t for the
> context index is excessive. Reducing this to uint8_t shrinks the ixgbe
> part of the union from 32 bytes to 24. Although it does not in itself
> shrink the space for the whole struct, it is worth doing as ixgbe is the
> second-largest block in the union, so may become relevant if other
> rework shrinks the idpf-specific block.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> ---
Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
--
Thanks,
Anatoly
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-08 15:48 [PATCH] net/ixgbe: shrink size of context index Bruce Richardson
2026-04-09 12:18 ` Burakov, Anatoly [this message]
2026-04-09 13:45 ` Bruce Richardson
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