Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce API change in mbuf

2020-08-05 Thread Thomas Monjalon
05/08/2020 11:28, Kinsella, Ray: > > On 31/07/2020 17:03, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > In order to prepare for adding more features requiring more space in mbuf, > > some static fields must become dynamic. > > Some small layout changes may have performance benefits as well. > > > > The deprecation

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce API change in mbuf

2020-08-05 Thread Kinsella, Ray
On 31/07/2020 17:03, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > In order to prepare for adding more features requiring more space in mbuf, > some static fields must become dynamic. > Some small layout changes may have performance benefits as well. > > The deprecation notice for atomic refcount is moved and rewor

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce API change in mbuf

2020-08-03 Thread David Marchand
On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 6:04 PM Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > In order to prepare for adding more features requiring more space in mbuf, > some static fields must become dynamic. > Some small layout changes may have performance benefits as well. > > The deprecation notice for atomic refcount is moved

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce API change in mbuf

2020-08-03 Thread Andrew Rybchenko
On 8/2/20 10:28 PM, Olivier Matz wrote: > On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 06:03:49PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote: >> In order to prepare for adding more features requiring more space in mbuf, >> some static fields must become dynamic. >> Some small layout changes may have performance benefits as well. >>

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce API change in mbuf

2020-08-02 Thread Olivier Matz
On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 06:03:49PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > In order to prepare for adding more features requiring more space in mbuf, > some static fields must become dynamic. > Some small layout changes may have performance benefits as well. > > The deprecation notice for atomic refcount

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce API change in mbuf

2019-08-05 Thread Thomas Monjalon
05/08/2019 10:05, Andrew Rybchenko: > On 8/1/19 3:41 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > In order to prepare for a long term stable API, the mbuf library > > has to change: allowing more features as dynamic fields, > > and fixing the lack of rte_ prefix in the namespace. > > The namespace fix should not

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce API change in mbuf

2019-08-05 Thread Andrew Rybchenko
On 8/1/19 3:41 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: In order to prepare for a long term stable API, the mbuf library has to change: allowing more features as dynamic fields, and fixing the lack of rte_ prefix in the namespace. The namespace fix should not break the compatibility by keeping some aliases dur

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce API change in mbuf

2019-08-04 Thread Olivier Matz
On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 02:41:23PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > In order to prepare for a long term stable API, the mbuf library > has to change: allowing more features as dynamic fields, > and fixing the lack of rte_ prefix in the namespace. > The namespace fix should not break the compatibilit