[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3 v2] ethdev: add rx offload to drop error packets

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Mon,  5 Oct 2020 12:45:04 +0530
nipun.gupta at nxp.com wrote:

> From: Nipun Gupta <nipun.gupta at nxp.com>
> 
> This change adds a RX offload capability, which once enabled,
> hardware will drop the packets in case there of any error in
> the packet such as L3 checksum error or L4 checksum.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nipun Gupta <nipun.gupta at nxp.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rohit Raj <rohit.raj at nxp.com>
> ---
> These patches are based over series:
> https://patchwork.dpdk.org/patch/78630/
> 
> Changes in v2:
>  - Add support in DPAA1 driver (patch 2/3)
>  - Add support and config parameter in testpmd (patch 3/3)
> 
>  lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Maybe this should be an rte_flow match/action which would then make it
more flexible?

There is not much of a performance gain for this in real life and
if only one driver supports it then I am not convinced this is needed.