On 17 December 2014 at 12:51, Savolainen, Petri (NSN - FI/Espoo)
<[email protected]> wrote:
> The API says already:
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> “Operation does not modify packet segmentation or move data. Handles and
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> pointers remain valid. User is responsible to update packet meta-data
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> offsets when needed.”
But does the application get the proper tools for (simple and
efficient) updating of the packet meta-data offsets?

Pull makes a relative change (subtract N). Set offset do not make
relative changes. This forces the user to read the offsets, pull the
header and then set the offsets(old_offset - N). The application needs
to be aware of all meta-data fields that need to updated. What if we
add more meta-data fields of the offset type?

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> If application modifies packet headers (adds/removes/changes them), it must
> update those offsets that it or some other block after it in the chain cares
> about (reloads from the packet). It may leave some offsets unchanged because
> it knows that those are not needed any more.
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> Some more words can be added, if the current text is not clear enough. The
> current implementation does not implement the spec. This patch fixes that
> issue.
I think we have the wrong spec. Pulling headers should not make the
remaining packet Lx offsets invalid.

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> -Petri
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> From: ext Bill Fischofer [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 1:33 PM
> To: Petri Savolainen
> Cc: lng-odp-forward
> Subject: Re: [lng-odp] [PATCH] Remove packet l2/l3/l4 offset adjustments
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> If we do this we really need a documentation note that says:
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> Note: After doing a head push/pull, applications cannot use routines like
> odp_packet_l3_ptr(), etc., until they make appropriate  calls to
> odp_packet_l3_offset_set(), etc., to reflect the previous operation.
> Otherwise they will receive pointers to incorrect areas of the packet.
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> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 3:12 AM, Petri Savolainen
> <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Packet head push/pull calls do not automatically adjust
> metadata offsets, only data pointer and headroom.
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> Signed-off-by: Petri Savolainen <[email protected]>
> ---
>  platform/linux-generic/include/odp_packet_internal.h | 8 --------
>  1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
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> diff --git a/platform/linux-generic/include/odp_packet_internal.h
> b/platform/linux-generic/include/odp_packet_internal.h
> index a0eff30..18e69b3 100644
> --- a/platform/linux-generic/include/odp_packet_internal.h
> +++ b/platform/linux-generic/include/odp_packet_internal.h
> @@ -192,24 +192,16 @@ static inline void *packet_map(odp_packet_hdr_t
> *pkt_hdr,
>                           pkt_hdr->headroom + pkt_hdr->frame_len);
>  }
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> -#define pull_offset(x, len) (x = x < len ? 0 : x - len)
> -
>  static inline void push_head(odp_packet_hdr_t *pkt_hdr, size_t len)
>  {
>         pkt_hdr->headroom  -= len;
>         pkt_hdr->frame_len += len;
> -       pkt_hdr->l2_offset += len;
> -       pkt_hdr->l3_offset += len;
> -       pkt_hdr->l4_offset += len;
>  }
>
>  static inline void pull_head(odp_packet_hdr_t *pkt_hdr, size_t len)
>  {
>         pkt_hdr->headroom  += len;
>         pkt_hdr->frame_len -= len;
> -       pull_offset(pkt_hdr->l2_offset, len);
> -       pull_offset(pkt_hdr->l3_offset, len);
> -       pull_offset(pkt_hdr->l4_offset, len);
>  }
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>  static inline void push_tail(odp_packet_hdr_t *pkt_hdr, size_t len)
> --
> 2.2.0
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