>-----Original Message-----
>From: De Lara Guarch, Pablo [mailto:pablo.de.lara.gua...@intel.com]
>Sent: 06 July 2018 14:10
>To: Verma, Shally <shally.ve...@cavium.com>; Gupta, Ashish
><ashish.gu...@cavium.com>; Trahe, Fiona <fiona.tr...@intel.com>;
>Daly, Lee <lee.d...@intel.com>; Sahu, Sunila <sunila.s...@cavium.com>
>Cc: dev@dpdk.org
>Subject: RE: [PATCH v3 3/4] compressdev: replace mbuf scatter gather flag
>
//snip
>> Ohh okay, now I get it. So these feature flags intend to show input/output
>> mode
>> supported specifically for in/out of place operations. But then still I see
>> having
>> OOP isn't required as compression default support is out-of-place and it's
>> just
>> making feature name too big. Having in-place is exception and if supported,
>> can
>> use convention RTE_COMP_FF_INPLACE_xx
>
>I would still prefer having OOP, to be consistent with cryptodev. It is also
>not that long, it is just 3 letters.
>
>>
>> Above one comment, as I see it, use of FB in
>> RTE_COMP_FF_OOP_FB_IN_SGL_OUT didn't give clear indication what it mean.
>> May be replace it by RTE_COMP_FF_OOP_DIRECT/LINEAR_IN_SGL_OUT
>
>Linear could be a good option, but it is missing a noun there. What about LB
>(linear buffer), so we keep it short too.
Ok. LB looks fine. hopefully, that will make apparent to reader, that it's
opposite of Scatter-Gather.
Thanks
Shally
>
>Pablo
