[PATCH v2 2/4] net/mlx5: mark an operation in mbuf's history

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Tue Sep 16 23:14:27 CEST 2025


On Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:12:05 +0300
Shani Peretz <shperetz at nvidia.com> wrote:

> record operations on mbufs when it is allocated
> and released inside the mlx5 PMD.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shani Peretz <shperetz at nvidia.com>
> ---

If you are adding this to one driver, it means it should be
done to all drivers. Which means it is creating lots of churn
and testing.

For me, this amount of churn and #ifdef is not worth it.
Think of a better way using some other mechanism.


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