[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ixgbe: fix check for split packets

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 01:44:14AM +0100, Lu, Wenzhuo wrote:
> Hi Bruce,
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Richardson
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 11:25 PM
> > To: dev at dpdk.org
> > Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ixgbe: fix check for split packets
> > 
> > The check for split packets to be reassembled in the vector ixgbe PMD was
> > incorrectly only checking the first 16 elements of the array instead of all 32. This
> > is fixed by changing the uint32_t values to be uint64_t instead.
> > 
> > Fixes: cf4b4708a88a ("ixgbe: improve slow-path perf with vector scattered Rx")
> > 
> > Reported-by: Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss at linaro.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx_vec.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx_vec.c
> > b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx_vec.c
> > index 9f24849..cdad3e0 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx_vec.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx_vec.c
> > @@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ ixgbe_recv_scattered_pkts_vec(void *rx_queue, struct
> > rte_mbuf **rx_pkts,
> >  		return 0;
> > 
> >  	/* happy day case, full burst + no packets to be joined */
> > -	const uint32_t *split_fl32 = (uint32_t *)split_flags;
> > +	const uint64_t *split_fl32 = (uint64_t *)split_flags;
> Why not change the name to split_fl64? I don't think it's appropriate to keep it be split_fl32.
> Thanks.
> 
Quite right, that's the obvious change! I'll do a V2.

/Bruce