Re: [PATCH] mbuf: improve mbuf comments

Thomas Monjalon
2025-11-05T21:29:00Z

05/11/2025 12:33, Morten Brørup:
> > From: Morten Brørup [mailto:mb@smartsharesystems.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 5 November 2025 12.28
> >
> > Updated the comment preceding the 'rearm_data' fields to reflect that
> > some
> > ethdev drivers don't really set the rearm_data fields on RX descriptor
> > rearm, but rather when pulling the packet from the descriptor.
> > By doing this, they avoid a store operation into the mbuf when they
> > rearm
> > the TX descriptor, and instead postpone it to later, where it will be
>
> Typo: TX descriptor -> RX descriptor.

Another Typo: RX -> Rx ;)

We agreed to prefer Tx/Rx capitalization in devtools/words-case.txt.
I personnaly think it is more correct, as it is not an acronym.