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* [dpdk-dev] removing mbuf error flags
@ 2016-04-29 12:25 Olivier Matz
  2016-04-29 17:47 ` John Daley (johndale)
  2016-04-29 18:16 ` Don Provan
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 18+ messages in thread
From: Olivier Matz @ 2016-04-29 12:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: dev, Zhang, Helin; +Cc: Ananyev, Konstantin, John Daley

Hi,

In rte_mbuf.h, some rx flags are set to 0 since a long time since
nearly 2 years. It means nobody use them. They were introduced by
the following commit:

  http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/commit/?id=c22265f6

As far as I understand, these flags were introduced to let the
application know that a received packet is invalid.

The 2 drivers using them are i40e and enic. But as this flags are 0
today, it means that invalid packets are silently given to the
application.

My opinion is that invalid packets should not be given to the
application and only a statistic counter should be incremented.
No application check these flags today (in examples, or testpmd).

I would like to remove these flags.
Thoughs?

Olivier

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Thread overview: 18+ messages (download: mbox.gz / follow: Atom feed)
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2016-04-29 12:25 [dpdk-dev] removing mbuf error flags Olivier Matz
2016-04-29 17:47 ` John Daley (johndale)
2016-04-29 18:16 ` Don Provan
2016-04-29 18:24   ` Jay Rolette
2016-04-29 20:00     ` Arnon Warshavsky
2016-04-29 20:57       ` Olivier MATZ
2016-04-30  1:41         ` Don Provan
2016-05-10  8:40           ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC] mbuf: remove unused rx " Olivier Matz
2016-05-12  1:32             ` John Daley (johndale)
2016-05-12  9:25               ` Olivier MATZ
2016-05-23  7:56                 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mbuf: remove unused Rx " Olivier Matz
2016-06-13 11:39                   ` Olivier Matz
2016-06-13 12:39                   ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-06-13 14:00                     ` Bruce Richardson
2016-06-13 12:42                   ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-06-13 12:49                     ` Olivier Matz
2016-06-13 13:25                       ` Bruce Richardson
2016-06-13 13:52                         ` Thomas Monjalon

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