[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ethdev: add rx offload to drop error packets

[Thomas Monjalon]

31/08/2020 19:00, Stephen Hemminger:
> On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 13:23:33 +0530
> Nipun Gupta <nipun.gupta at nxp.com> wrote:
> 
> > This change adds a RX offload capability where hardware can drop the
> > packets in case there is an error in the packet such as L3 checksum
> > error or L4 checksum.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Nipun Gupta <nipun.gupta at nxp.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Rohit Raj <rohit.raj at nxp.com>
> > ---
> > +#define DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_ERR_PKT_DROP	0x00100000

Please add RTE_ prefix, even if older macros don't have it.
We could (in a separate effort) alias old ones with RTE_ prefixed names.

> Could/should this be an rte_flow action as well?

I feel rte_flow API is not appropriate here.
Ori, any opinion?