[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/thunderx: add support for hardware first skip feature

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 5/30/2018 7:41 AM, Rakesh K wrote:
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> On Monday 28 May 2018 07:14 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
>> On 5/28/2018 1:57 PM, rkudurumalla wrote:
>>> This feature is used to create a hole between HEADROOM
>>> and actual data.Size of hole is specified in bytes as
>>> module param to pmd
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>> Can't mbuf private area be used? It is between HEADROOM and mbuf header.
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> data inserted in the hole will be part of the packet data. One of the
> use cases is inserting VLAN header for each packet received before it is
> being forwarded without having to move the packet data

Cc'ed Olivier.

Is this something should be addressed in mbuf level instead of PMD via devarg?

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>>> Signed-off-by: Rakesh Kudurumalla <rkudurumalla at caviumnetworks.com>
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