[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net: add missing endianness annotations

Olivier Matz olivier.matz at 6wind.com
Fri Oct 18 11:23:45 CEST 2019


On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 10:47:37AM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 10:43 AM Olivier Matz <olivier.matz at 6wind.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi David,
> >
> > 2lOn Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 01:58:02PM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> > > OVS currently maintains a copy of those headers with the right endianness
> > > annotations so that sparse checks can pass.
> > >
> > > We introduced rte_beXX_t for better readibility in v17.08.
> > > Let's make use of them, OVS then only needs to override those rte_beXX_t
> > > types by exposing a tweaked rte_byteorder.h header.
> > >
> > > Other existing dpdk users won't be affected since rte_beXX_t types are
> > > mapped to uintXX_t types.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
> > > ---
> > >  lib/librte_net/rte_icmp.h | 12 +++++++-----
> > >  lib/librte_net/rte_ip.h   | 28 ++++++++++++++--------------
> > >  lib/librte_net/rte_sctp.h | 10 ++++++----
> > >  lib/librte_net/rte_tcp.h  | 20 +++++++++++---------
> > >  lib/librte_net/rte_udp.h  | 10 ++++++----
> > >  5 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
> >
> > Is there a reason why you didn't change arp, gre, ... ?
> 
> Let me look at the other headers, I had focused on what OVS used.
> 
> Is this current patch ok?

Yes, it looks good to me.


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