05/11/2020 00:42, Stephen Hemminger: > Thanks for the work cleaning out some of the cruft in the mbuf to make space > for dynamic fields. > > Are you going to breakup the hash union in mbuf? > There is some bits to be gained there for dynamic fields. > > - Flow director should be deprecated/gone/killed so hash.fdir can disappear. > > - QoS scheduling hash.sched should be a dynamic field. > > - Eventdev hash.tx_adapter.txq should be a dynamic field as well. > > - hash.usr field is obviously an dynamic field candidate. > > That leaves only hash.rss which is smaller (32 instead of 64 bits in union) > and should stay.
Yes such dynamic fields can be used during next year, so we are prepared to remove more fields in 21.11 next year. I hope such cleanup can be contributing by multiple volunteers.
