mbuf: document guideline for new fields and flags
authorThomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Thu, 11 Jun 2020 06:32:29 +0000 (08:32 +0200)
committerThomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Thu, 11 Jun 2020 07:29:15 +0000 (09:29 +0200)
commitd1342ea419f268cb6b94d82d20f0d31a092e2b91
treea7f75a4d23d73294b29830787abc04d91fb0ae2d
parent5fd722308ef21819931d25e7a140ff5a292b19d9
mbuf: document guideline for new fields and flags

Since dynamic fields and flags were added in 19.11,
the idea was to use them for new features, not only PMD-specific.

The guideline is made more explicit in doxygen, in the mbuf guide,
and in the contribution design guidelines.

For more information about the original design, see the presentation
https://www.dpdk.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DynamicMbuf.pdf

This decision was discussed in the Technical Board:
http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-June/169667.html

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>
doc/guides/contributing/design.rst
doc/guides/prog_guide/mbuf_lib.rst
lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf_core.h