[dpdk-dev] l3fwd can't launch on VF when we use i40e

[Björn Töpel]

Firstly, sorry about the late reply.

> From my view, crc-strip is not a "MUST" check for the port start. We can configure the value after
> the port start.
> Any thoughts?

>From my perspective, a non-supported configuration should return an
error code to the API user.

> Do you know is there any way I can bypass this when I use l3fwd?

One work-around is enabling .hw_strip_crc for i40 VFs at runtime, by
e.g. using rte_eth_dev_info_get() to determine what driver that's in
use. That, however, does require a l3fwd patch.


Björn