From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Liron Himi <lironh@marvell.com>
Cc: dpdk-dev <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] input port in mbuf
Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 12:42:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200506124258.69b138e4@hermes.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DM5PR18MB22149A8E65DB8BFCAF9D4D84C6A40@DM5PR18MB2214.namprd18.prod.outlook.com>
On Wed, 6 May 2020 19:21:30 +0000
Liron Himi <lironh@marvell.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We need to save the input port in the mbuf in order to return the buffer to the right hw pool.
> For now we use the 'port' in the mbuf as it is supposed to be for this exact purpose.
> But we noticed that some applications are override it with the destination port.
>
> What should be the right behavior?
> is there another location that that this information can be stored and read only by the ethdev drivers?
>
> Regards,
> Liron
>
There is no requirement that input port is unmodified by the application.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-06 19:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-06 19:21 Liron Himi
2020-05-06 19:42 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2020-05-06 19:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [EXT] " Liron Himi
2020-05-06 20:10 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-05-06 20:17 ` Liron Himi
2020-05-06 20:23 ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-01-16 20:01 ` Liron Himi
2021-01-27 16:58 ` Tom Barbette
2021-01-27 17:59 ` Liron Himi
2020-05-06 22:10 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
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