> From: Bruce Richardson [mailto:bruce.richard...@intel.com] > Sent: Thursday, 5 October 2023 13.51 ure 16-byte alignment for events > > The event structure in DPDK is 16-bytes in size, and events are > regularly passed as parameters directly rather than being passed as > pointers. To help compiler optimize correctly, we can explicitly request > 16-byte alignment for events, which means that we should be able > to do aligned vector loads/stores (e.g. with SSE or Neon) when working > with those events. > > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> > ---
AFAICS it is not specified anywhere that the size of this struct must be 16 byte. Consider adding this requirement to the struct documentation, and possibly a static_assert to verify. Acked-by: Morten Brørup <m...@smartsharesystems.com>
