Re: [PATCH v5 7/8] mempool: introduce block size align flag

[santosh <santosh.shukla@caviumnetworks.com>]

On Thursday 07 September 2017 01:43 PM, Olivier MATZ wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 04:58:33PM +0530, Santosh Shukla wrote:
>> --- a/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.h
>> +++ b/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.h
>> @@ -271,6 +271,10 @@ struct rte_mempool {
>>   * Note: This flag should not be passed by application.
>>   */
>>  #define MEMPOOL_F_CAPA_PHYS_CONTIG 0x0040
>> +/**
>> + * Align object start address to total elem size
>> + */
>> +#define MEMPOOL_F_BLK_ALIGNED_OBJECTS 0x0080
> Same than with the other flag: since the meaning of this flag is not obvious
> when we read the name, it has to be clearly described.
> - say that it's virtual address
> - say that it implies MEMPOOL_F_CAPA_PHYS_CONTIG
> - say that it can be advertised by a driver and the application should
>   not pass it
>
> And, since it shall not be passed by an application, I suggest to add
> _CAPA too (i.e. MEMPOOL_F_CAPA_BLK_ALIGNED_OBJECTS).
>
Ok, I will elaborate on FLAG description in v6,
and Rename to MEMPOOL_F_CAPA_BLK_ALIGNED_OBJECTS.

Can you please suggest are you ok with
checking MEMPOOL_F_CAPA_BLK_ALIGNED_OBJECTS | _PHYS_CONTIG
in _xmem_size()/_usage(), asked in v4 [1] for same patch.

[1] http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/27600/