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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Ophir Munk <ophirmu@mellanox.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Pascal Mazon <pascal.mazon@6wind.com>,
	Olga Shern <olgas@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v1] net/tap: fix CRC stripping capability report
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 18:55:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5072632.Aql229SuCI@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1518446598-24238-1-git-send-email-ophirmu@mellanox.com>

The title should be "add CRC stripping capability".

12/02/2018 15:43, Ophir Munk:
> CRC stripping is executed outside of TAP PMD scope. There is no
> prevention that TAP reports on Rx CRC stripping capability.

We could mention that the CRC stripping is done in the kernel.

> It is especially required when TAP is operating as failsafe sub-device
> with another PCI sub-device which supports CRC stripping.
> In the corrupted code TAP did not report on this capability which
> caused failsafe to not report on it as well.

You discover the bug with failsafe but it is not related at all.
I think you squeeze this part of the explanation.

> The fix is for TAP to report that Rx CRC stripping is supported.
> 
> Fixes: 95ae196ae10b ("net/tap: use new Rx offloads API")

I don't think it is a root cause.
This capability is missing from day one:
Fixes: 02f96a0a82d1 ("net/tap: add TUN/TAP device PMD")

> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ophir Munk <ophirmu@mellanox.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-12 17:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-12 14:43 [dpdk-dev] " Ophir Munk
2018-02-12 17:55 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2018-02-12 22:34   ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] " Ophir Munk

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