2015-06-22 13:23, Cyril Chemparathy: > On Mon, 22 Jun 2015 22:16:59 +0200 > Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com> wrote: > > Cyril, feel free to fix it if it breaks with Tile arch. > > Why define these locally within rte_port.h? Shouldn't these macros > really be in rte_mbuf.h?
No, an application is free to put its metadata elsewhere. The packet framework (port/table/pipeline) did the choice to put some metadata here but there is no need to enforce it for everybody.
