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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Michael Baum <michaelba@nvidia.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Aman Singh <aman.deep.singh@intel.com>,
	Yuying Zhang <yuying.zhang@intel.com>,
	Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com>,
	orika@nvidia.com, stable@dpdk.org, olivier.matz@6wind.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] app/testpmd: fix wrong encap/decap size calculation
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 18:26:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3407226.QJadu78ljV@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230316171654.1827514-1-michaelba@nvidia.com>

16/03/2023 18:16, Michael Baum:
> Testpmd app has some functions to create either encap or decap buffer
> for some special cases:
>  - "l2_encap" and "l2_decap"
>  - "mplsogre_encap" and "mplsogre_decap"
>  - "mplsoudp_encap" and "mplsoudp_decap"
> 
> The functions use both "rte_flow_item_eth" and "rte_flow_item_vlan"
> structures to represent the headers and copy them into "raw_encap"
> action. The size of either "raw_encap" or "raw_decap" is capculated as

capculated -> calculated

> sum of headers size.
> 
> However, the both "rte_flow_item_eth" and "rte_flow_item_vlan" contain
> more fields than original headers, so using them cause bad size
> calculation.
> 
> This patch uses "RTE_ETHER_HDR_LEN" and "RTE_VLAN_HLEN" macros in size
> calculation.

Honestly I don't know why we have these *_LEN macros in DPDK.
We would have the same result with the (more explicit)
sizeof(struct rte_ether_hdr) or sizeof(struct rte_vlan_hdr).




  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-16 17:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-16 17:16 Michael Baum
2023-03-16 17:26 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2023-03-16 18:24 ` [PATCH v2] " Michael Baum
2023-03-23 10:34   ` Ori Kam
2023-03-23 11:09     ` Ferruh Yigit

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