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From: "Charles (Chas) Williams" <3chas3@gmail.com>
To: Harish Patil <harish.patil@qlogic.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] bnx2x: set Ethernet address type during transmit for VF's
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2015 06:01:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1449486117.2645.73.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D289FA81.1090FE%harish.patil@qlogic.com>

On Sun, 2015-12-06 at 23:34 +0000, Harish Patil wrote:
> >
> >The original was always setting unicast.  While here, clean up some
> >other references that also point into the Ethernet header.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Chas Williams <3chas3@gmail.com>
> >---
> > drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x.c     | 23 +++++++++++++++--------
> > drivers/net/bnx2x/ecore_hsi.h |  5 +++--
> > 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x.c b/drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x.c
> >index 76444eb..294711f 100644
> >--- a/drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x.c
> >+++ b/drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x.c
> >@@ -2177,25 +2177,32 @@ int bnx2x_tx_encap(struct bnx2x_tx_queue *txq,
> >struct rte_mbuf **m_head, int m_p
> >               bd_prod = NEXT_TX_BD(bd_prod);
> >               if (IS_VF(sc)) {
> >                       struct eth_tx_parse_bd_e2 *tx_parse_bd;
> >-                      uint8_t *data = rte_pktmbuf_mtod(m0, uint8_t *);
> >+                      const struct ether_hdr *eh = rte_pktmbuf_mtod(m0, struct ether_hdr *);
> >+                      uint8_t mac_type = UNICAST_ADDRESS;
> >
> >                       tx_parse_bd =
> >                           &txq->tx_ring[TX_BD(bd_prod, txq)].parse_bd_e2;
> >+                      if (is_multicast_ether_addr(&eh->d_addr)) {
> 
> Minor comment. unlikely() may be used here to keep it consistent with base
> driver.

It wasn't clear to me that this code path is all that unlikely().
 
> >+                              if (is_broadcast_ether_addr(&eh->d_addr))
> >+                                      mac_type = BROADCAST_ADDRESS;
> >+                              else
> >+                                      mac_type = MULTICAST_ADDRESS;
> >+                      }

  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-07 11:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-18 20:58 Chas Williams
2015-12-06 22:20 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-12-06 22:22   ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-12-06 23:34 ` Harish Patil
2015-12-07 11:01   ` Charles (Chas) Williams [this message]
2015-12-07 17:29     ` Harish Patil
2015-12-08 14:27       ` Charles (Chas) Williams
2015-12-08 21:38         ` Bruce Richardson
2015-12-08 21:48           ` Harish Patil

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