[dpdk-dev] fm10k pmd limitations

[Chen, Jing D]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yigit, Ferruh
> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2017 7:57 PM
> To: Shaham Fridenberg <ShahamF at Radware.com>; dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: Chen, Jing D <jing.d.chen at intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] fm10k pmd limitations
> 
> On 12/13/2016 1:49 PM, Shaham Fridenberg wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > I'm using dpdk 16.4 and fm10k card. According to the code, there's no
> support for disabling vlan stripping and VLAN QinQ in pmd fm10k.
> > Does anybody know why? If there's any way to work-around it, or when is a
> behavior change expected?

Yes, HW will always strip it and driver will copy it into 
(struct rte_mbuf *)mbuf->vlan_tci. 

> > I need my VF to receive the packets with the  VLAN headers.

VF can read from rte_mbuf.

> > Even if it's possible to change this configurations through the linux kernel
> fm10k driver?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> 
> CC fm10k maintainer: Jing Chen <jing.d.chen at intel.com>