On Mon, Dec 2, 2024 at 6:46 PM Mike Pattrick <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 2:49 AM Ales Musil <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Add helper to truncate the buffer to certain size which might be
> > useful if some earlier part of the buffer can be reused multiple
> > times without copying the whole buffer.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ales Musil <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  include/openvswitch/ofpbuf.h | 7 +++++++
> >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/openvswitch/ofpbuf.h b/include/openvswitch/ofpbuf.h
> > index 1fc4a3a7f..bac574548 100644
> > --- a/include/openvswitch/ofpbuf.h
> > +++ b/include/openvswitch/ofpbuf.h
> > @@ -292,6 +292,13 @@ static inline bool ofpbuf_oversized(const struct
> ofpbuf *ofpacts)
> >      return (char *)ofpbuf_tail(ofpacts) - (char *)ofpacts->header >
> UINT16_MAX;
> >  }
> >
>
> Hello Ales,
>
> Especially given that it's not currently used in code, it would be
> good to have a comment here explaining the use.
>

Hi Mike,

yeah I can add a comment to explain what it does.


> > +static inline void ofpbuf_truncate(struct ofpbuf *b, size_t size)
> > +{
> > +    ovs_assert(b->size >= size);
> > +    b->data = (uint8_t *) b->data - size;
>
>
> I may misunderstand this, but the function is supposed to be removing
> bytes from the end of the buffer? Then why is b->data modified?
>
>
You are right that's completely wrong. I'll send v2.

>
> Cheers,
> M
>
> > +    b->size = b->size - size;
> > +}
> > +
> >  #ifdef  __cplusplus
> >  }
> >  #endif
> > --
> > 2.47.0
> >
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>
Thanks,
Ales
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