[dpdk-users] how to enable padding for the broadcom nic using dpdk pmd

[Gaurav Bansal]

can anyone please let me know on how can we enable padding bytes offload
for the broadcom nic ?
thanks,
gaurav

On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 4:02 PM Gaurav Bansal <zeebee48 at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi all,
> I am using BCM57414 broadcom nic with the dpdk pmd. For the ARP packets
> (len=42 bytes) being sent to bnxt_start_xmit, they are not making it to the
> wire. If i add the ARP entry manually in the cache, then http curl request
> went through fine (ack pkg being of 66 bytes with tcp options).
>
> I tried to go through the code for dpdk bnxt pmd but not able to find the
> code where we either do the padding in pmd OR try to offload the same to
> the NIC. Can anyone please let me know how to enable the padding offload in
> the NIC ?
> thanks,
> gaurav
>