[dpdk-dev] input port in mbuf
Stephen Hemminger
stephen at networkplumber.org
Wed May 6 21:42:58 CEST 2020
On Wed, 6 May 2020 19:21:30 +0000
Liron Himi <lironh at marvell.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We need to save the input port in the mbuf in order to return the buffer to the right hw pool.
> For now we use the 'port' in the mbuf as it is supposed to be for this exact purpose.
> But we noticed that some applications are override it with the destination port.
>
> What should be the right behavior?
> is there another location that that this information can be stored and read only by the ethdev drivers?
>
> Regards,
> Liron
>
There is no requirement that input port is unmodified by the application.
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