[dpdk-stable] [PATCH 1/2] app/testpmd: fix wrong pointer reference in macswap

[Iremonger, Bernard]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yongseok Koh [mailto:yskoh at mellanox.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2019 10:00 AM
> To: Lu, Wenzhuo <wenzhuo.lu at intel.com>; Wu, Jingjing
> <jingjing.wu at intel.com>; Iremonger, Bernard <bernard.iremonger at intel.com>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Zhang, Qi Z <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>; stable at dpdk.org
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] app/testpmd: fix wrong pointer reference in macswap
> 
> The pointer is misused and could set wrong MAC address. As a result, some of
> packets can be dropped in receiver side due to MAC address mismatch.
> This can be shown as performance degradation.
> 
> Bugzilla ID: 188
> 
> Fixes: 62b52877adbe ("app/testpmd: batch MAC swap for performance on x86")
> Cc: qi.z.zhang at intel.com
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yongseok Koh <yskoh at mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger at intel.com>