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To: Ray Kinsella <mdr@ashroe.eu>, xuan.ding@intel.com
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On 5/24/22 17:58, Ray Kinsella wrote:
> 
> xuan.ding@intel.com writes:
> 
>> From: Xuan Ding <xuan.ding@intel.com>
>>
>> RTE_ETH_RX_OFFLOAD_HEADER_SPLIT offload was introduced some time ago to
>> substitute bit-field header_split in struct rte_eth_rxmode. It allows
>> to enable header split offload with the header size controlled using
>> split_hdr_size in the same structure.
>>
>> Right now, no single PMD actually supports RTE_ETH_RX_OFFLOAD_HEADER_SPLIT
>> with above definition. Many examples and test apps initialize the field
>> to 0 explicitly. The most of drivers simply ignore split_hdr_size since
>> the offload is not advertised, but some double-check that its value is 0.
>>
>> So the RTE_ETH_RX_OFFLOAD_HEADER_SPLIT and split_header_size field
>> will be removed in DPDK 22.11.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Xuan Ding <xuan.ding@intel.com>
> 
> 
> Acked-by: Ray Kinsella <mdr@ashroe.eu>

Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru>