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authorDave Wallace <dwallacelf@gmail.com>2018-12-13 12:29:44 -0500
committerFlorin Coras <florin.coras@gmail.com>2018-12-17 00:10:16 +0000
commit4659d0e82343e6c061261f0a2aa977b0d00f199d (patch)
tree2bb24ef2b0bf23e08537211743e71ac53dc361f6 /src/vppinfra
parent4ee633e84af18e9237554df2015a332749dc358a (diff)
docs: clarify vector element alignment description.
Change-Id: I6da153779010263e6fc4b51c64b01444aaadca17 Signed-off-by: Dave Wallace <dwallacelf@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'src/vppinfra')
-rw-r--r--src/vppinfra/vec.h14
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/src/vppinfra/vec.h b/src/vppinfra/vec.h
index 470a4f190c2..6f0e7e9148b 100644
--- a/src/vppinfra/vec.h
+++ b/src/vppinfra/vec.h
@@ -70,16 +70,18 @@
Typically, the header is not present. Headers allow for other
data structures to be built atop CLIB vectors.
- Users may specify the alignment for data elements via the
- vec_*_aligned macros.
+ Users may specify the 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).
+ 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.
Standard programming error: memorize a pointer to the ith element
of a vector then expand it. Vectors expand by 3/2, so such code