[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net: introduce big and little endian types

[Nélio Laranjeiro]

On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 10:09:05AM +0000, Ananyev, Konstantin wrote:
> Hi Neilo,
> 
> > 
> > This commit introduces new rte_{le,be}{16,32,64}_t types and updates
> > rte_{le,be,cpu}_to_{le,be,cpu}_*() and network header structures
> > accordingly.
> > 
> > Specific big/little endian types avoid uncertainty and conversion mistakes.
> > 
> > No ABI change since these are simply typedefs to the original types.
> 
> It seems like quite a lot of changes...
> Could you probably explain what will be the benefit in return?
> Konstantin

Hi Konstantin,

The benefit is to provide documented byte ordering for data types
software is manipulating to determine when network to CPU (or CPU to
network) conversion must be performed.

Regards,

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Nélio Laranjeiro
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