Re: [ovs-dev] [RFC v7 05/13] dp-packet: Handle multi-seg mbufs in helper funcs.

2018-05-30 Thread Lam, Tiago
On 28/05/2018 16:41, Loftus, Ciara wrote: >> >> Most helper functions in dp-packet assume that the data held by a >> dp_packet is contiguous, and perform operations such as pointer >> arithmetic under that assumption. However, with the introduction of >> multi-segment mbufs, where data is

Re: [ovs-dev] [RFC v7 05/13] dp-packet: Handle multi-seg mbufs in helper funcs.

2018-05-28 Thread Loftus, Ciara
> > Most helper functions in dp-packet assume that the data held by a > dp_packet is contiguous, and perform operations such as pointer > arithmetic under that assumption. However, with the introduction of > multi-segment mbufs, where data is non-contiguous, such assumptions are > no longer

[ovs-dev] [RFC v7 05/13] dp-packet: Handle multi-seg mbufs in helper funcs.

2018-05-23 Thread Tiago Lam
Most helper functions in dp-packet assume that the data held by a dp_packet is contiguous, and perform operations such as pointer arithmetic under that assumption. However, with the introduction of multi-segment mbufs, where data is non-contiguous, such assumptions are no longer possible. Some