[PATCH v4 07/35] net/i40e: refactor context descriptor handling

[Burakov, Anatoly]

On 2/9/2026 5:45 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> Move all context descriptor handling to a single function, as with the
> ice driver, and use the same function signature as that driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> ---

<snip>

> +static __rte_always_inline uint16_t
> +get_context_desc(uint64_t ol_flags, const struct rte_mbuf *tx_pkt,
> +		 const union ci_tx_offload *tx_offload,
> +		 const struct ci_tx_queue *txq __rte_unused,
> +		 uint64_t *qw0, uint64_t *qw1)
> +{
> +	uint16_t cd_l2tag2 = 0;
> +	uint64_t cd_type_cmd_tso_mss = I40E_TX_DESC_DTYPE_CONTEXT;
> +	uint32_t cd_tunneling_params = 0;
> +
> +	if (i40e_calc_context_desc(ol_flags) == 0)
> +		return 0;
> +
> +	if (ol_flags & RTE_MBUF_F_TX_TUNNEL_MASK)
> +		i40e_parse_tunneling_params(ol_flags, *tx_offload, &cd_tunneling_params);
> +
> +	if (ol_flags & RTE_MBUF_F_TX_TCP_SEG) {
> +		cd_type_cmd_tso_mss |= i40e_set_tso_ctx(ol_flags, tx_pkt, *tx_offload);
> +	} else {
> +#ifdef RTE_LIBRTE_IEEE1588
> +		if (ol_flags & RTE_MBUF_F_TX_IEEE1588_TMST)
> +			cd_type_cmd_tso_mss |=
> +				((uint64_t)I40E_TX_CTX_DESC_TSYN << I40E_TXD_CTX_QW1_CMD_SHIFT);
> +#endif

I couldn't find any places where we define this, it appears to be some 
sort of legacy define, making this basically dead code?

-- 
Thanks,
Anatoly