[PATCH v2 0/2] pcapng: fix some issues with writing packets.

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Fri, 29 Jul 2022 09:18:39 +0200
Mário Kuka <kuka at cesnet.cz> wrote:

> This patchset contains fixes for some issues that occur when writing a 
> large burst of packets at once, such as writing more packets than the
> IOV_MAX limit and the problem of partial writing of a packet to a file 
> if the writev() system call performs a partial write.
> 
> The typical use of pcapng in our cases is to copy the packets into a 
> separate buffer and the process of writing to the file is done in some
> slow path, for example by writing in a separate thread or at the end of
> the application, where we don't mind the limitation of the typically 
> slow speed of the storage medium.
> 
> Mário Kuka (2):
>   pcapng: fix write more packets than IOV_MAX limit
>   pcapng: check if writev() returns a partial write
> 
>  app/test/test_pcapng.c  | 42 +++++++++++++++++-
>  lib/pcapng/rte_pcapng.c | 96 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  2 files changed, 120 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
> 

You ignored my feedback from earlier patch.
It seems you are adding a lot more here that is necessary.