> From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, 13 August 2026 19.13 > > This is a trial balloon to see what Morten's suggestion would > look like. > > Increase memzone name size to 64 and reorder structure > to keep it cache friendly. Move the zone name to the end of > struct rte_memzone and order the remaining members by size. > The structure is then naturally aligned > with no internal padding on both 64-bit and 32-bit targets, so the > __rte_packed_begin/end markers can be removed. > > With memzone size of 64 but don't need all that for stack names. > Increase the size to 32 which adds some space without impacting > cache layout. > > The memzone increase to 64 allows ring names to grow to 32 characters. > Don't need to go larger which could cause cache changes when ring is > embedded in structures. > > Bugzilla ID: 1984 > > Reported-by: Morten Brørup <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]> > ---
Not as much as I hoped for, but non-intrusive. A small improvement is still an improvement! Typo in the release notes: "incre " -> "increased" Reviewed-by: Morten Brørup <[email protected]>
