[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mbuf: remove unused Rx error flags

Olivier Matz olivier.matz at 6wind.com
Mon Jun 13 13:39:33 CEST 2016


Hi,

On 05/23/2016 09:56 AM, Olivier Matz wrote:
> Following the discussions from:
> http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2015-July/021721.html
> http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-April/038143.html
> 
> The value of these flags is 0, making them useless. Today, no example
> application checks them on Rx, and only few drivers sets them and
> silently give wrong packets to the application, which should not happen.
> 
> This patch removes the unused flags from rte_mbuf and their use in the
> drivers. The i40e and fm10k are kept as they are today and should be
> fixed to drop bad packets. The enic driver is managed by its maintainer
> in another patch.
> 
> Fixes: c22265f6 ("mbuf: add new packet flags for i40e")
> Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz at 6wind.com>

Any comment from someone?


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