Hi Bruce, On 08/27/2014 05:50 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote: > This patch set does some initial pre-work to prepare the mbuf data structure > (and ixgbe vector driver to a lesser extent) for more major changes which > will follow on in a subsequent patch set. [See previous RFC patch set for > more indications of the future coming changes]. > > The main changes here are the flattening out of the mbuf data structure, with > much of it based off work by Olivier. The ctrlmbuf and pktmbuf structures are > now gone, as is the vlan_macip structure. However, in this set, the concept > of having a separate ctrl mbuf type is kept around. The plan is in a later set > when we expand the flags field to 64-bits, we can use a single bit in the > flags > to indicate a control packet. For now, though, the ctrlmbuf functions and > macros > just are aliases for the pktmbuf equivalents as much as possible.
I'm wondering it "struct rte_kni_mbuf" should be updated accordingly each time "struct mbuf" is modified. Regards, Olivier
