CRC offload from application's POV

[Viacheslav Galaktionov]

Hi!

We're looking to implement CRC offload in our driver and we're having 
difficulties understanding what
the feature changes from the application's point of view. If we enable 
the KEEP_CRC offload, then the
NIC is supposed to preserve the CRC in the packet, that much is clear. 
But we checked other drivers
and it seems common for PMDs to remove the CRC from the final mbufs. Why 
is that?

We couldn't find any place where the CRC would be stored after removal, 
so it looks like the application
doesn't have access to this piece of data. And if so, what's the point 
of having this feature if the CRC
is discarded either way?

We're probably missing something and would really appreciate any help 
with this.

Thank you in advance,
Viacheslav