The index description isn't right, correct it as the Programmer's guide said.
Also correct the guide's figure description about 'Dequeue First Step'. Signed-off-by: Haiyue Wang <haiyue.w...@intel.com> --- doc/guides/prog_guide/ring_lib.rst | 2 +- lib/ring/rte_ring_core.h | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/ring_lib.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/ring_lib.rst index 54e0bb4b68..515a715266 100644 --- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/ring_lib.rst +++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/ring_lib.rst @@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ If there are not enough objects in the ring (this is detected by checking prod_t .. figure:: img/ring-dequeue1.* - Dequeue last step + Dequeue first step Dequeue Second Step diff --git a/lib/ring/rte_ring_core.h b/lib/ring/rte_ring_core.h index 1252ca9546..82b237091b 100644 --- a/lib/ring/rte_ring_core.h +++ b/lib/ring/rte_ring_core.h @@ -111,8 +111,8 @@ struct rte_ring_hts_headtail { * An RTE ring structure. * * The producer and the consumer have a head and a tail index. The particularity - * of these index is that they are not between 0 and size(ring). These indexes - * are between 0 and 2^32, and we mask their value when we access the ring[] + * of these index is that they are not between 0 and size(ring)-1. These indexes + * are between 0 and 2^32 -1, and we mask their value when we access the ring[] * field. Thanks to this assumption, we can do subtractions between 2 index * values in a modulo-32bit base: that's why the overflow of the indexes is not * a problem. -- 2.35.1