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| author |   Dave Wallace <dwallacelf@gmail.com> | 2018-12-13 12:29:44 -0500 |
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| committer |   Florin Coras <florin.coras@gmail.com> | 2018-12-17 00:10:16 +0000 |
| commit | 4659d0e82343e6c061261f0a2aa977b0d00f199d (patch) | |
| tree | 2bb24ef2b0bf23e08537211743e71ac53dc361f6 /docs/gettingstarted/developers | |
| parent | 4ee633e84af18e9237554df2015a332749dc358a (diff) | |
docs: clarify vector element alignment description.
Change-Id: I6da153779010263e6fc4b51c64b01444aaadca17
Signed-off-by: Dave Wallace <dwallacelf@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/gettingstarted/developers')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/gettingstarted/developers/infrastructure.md | 13 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/gettingstarted/developers/infrastructure.md b/docs/gettingstarted/developers/infrastructure.md index 0361a632c37..b99460732c5 100644 --- a/docs/gettingstarted/developers/infrastructure.md +++ b/docs/gettingstarted/developers/infrastructure.md @@ -48,13 +48,16 @@ macro! It's smart about NULL pointers.\] Typically, the user header is not present. User headers allow for other data structures to be built atop vppinfra vectors. Users may specify the -alignment for data elements via the [vec]()\*\_aligned macros. +alignment for first data element of a vector via the [vec]()\*\_aligned +macros. -Vectors elements can be any C type e.g. (int, double, struct bar). This +Vector elements can be any C type e.g. (int, double, struct bar). This is also true for data types built atop vectors (e.g. heap, pool, etc.). -Many macros have \_a variants supporting alignment of vector data and -\_h variants supporting non-zero-length vector headers. The \_ha -variants support both. +Many macros have \_a variants supporting alignment of vector elements +and \_h variants supporting non-zero-length vector headers. The \_ha +variants support both. Additionally cacheline alignment within a +vector element structure can be specified using the +[CLIB_CACHE_LINE_ALIGN_MARK]() macro. Inconsistent usage of header and/or alignment related macro variants will cause delayed, confusing failures. |