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From: "Björn Töpel" <bjorn.topel@gmail.com>
To: "Xu, Qian Q" <qian.q.xu@intel.com>
Cc: "Yao, Lei A" <lei.a.yao@intel.com>,
	"Topel, Bjorn" <bjorn.topel@intel.com>,
	"Wu, Jingjing" <jingjing.wu@intel.com>,
	"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
	 Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] l3fwd can't launch on VF when we use i40e
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 13:00:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ+HfNhisHk0+tRsS5XOR3w=zyDFNiH+UxLSsg8ioC1_nATcBg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <82F45D86ADE5454A95A89742C8D1410E032F7520@shsmsx102.ccr.corp.intel.com>

Firstly, sorry about the late reply.

> From my view, crc-strip is not a "MUST" check for the port start. We can configure the value after
> the port start.
> Any thoughts?

>From my perspective, a non-supported configuration should return an
error code to the API user.

> Do you know is there any way I can bypass this when I use l3fwd?

One work-around is enabling .hw_strip_crc for i40 VFs at runtime, by
e.g. using rte_eth_dev_info_get() to determine what driver that's in
use. That, however, does require a l3fwd patch.


Björn

      reply	other threads:[~2016-08-10 11:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <2DBBFF226F7CF64BAFCA79B681719D9502044162@shsmsx102.ccr.corp.intel.com>
2016-07-22  2:10 ` Xu, Qian Q
2016-08-10 11:00   ` Björn Töpel [this message]

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