[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/thunderx: add support for hardware first skip feature

Rakesh K rkudurumalla at caviumnetworks.com
Wed May 30 08:41:43 CEST 2018



On Monday 28 May 2018 07:14 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> On 5/28/2018 1:57 PM, rkudurumalla wrote:
>> This feature is used to create a hole between HEADROOM
>> and actual data.Size of hole is specified in bytes as
>> module param to pmd
> 
> Can't mbuf private area be used? It is between HEADROOM and mbuf header.

data inserted in the hole will be part of the packet data. One of the
use cases is inserting VLAN header for each packet received before it is
being forwarded without having to move the packet data
> 
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Rakesh Kudurumalla <rkudurumalla at caviumnetworks.com>
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