[RFC PATCH 0/8] remove use of rte_memcpy from net/intel

[Morten Brørup]

> From: Bruce Richardson [mailto:bruce.richardson at intel.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 19 May 2026 18.06
> 
> This RFC proposed to replace all instances of rte_memcpy in Intel
> (and former-Intel) net drivers with just regular memcpy. This is
> done on the basis that the memcpy use is not datapath, but is used
> for flow configuration, virt-channel (to firmware or PF) messaging
> and other control path functions.
> 

Series-acked-by: Morten Brørup <mb at smartsharesystems.com>

Interesting that using rte_memcpy() emits stringop-overflow warnings when not disabled [1], while using memcpy() doesn't [2].
The warnings are not correct, but still an interesting difference.

[1]: https://github.com/ovsrobot/dpdk/actions/runs/25104438552/job/74968218420
[2]: https://github.com/ovsrobot/dpdk/actions/runs/26110738743/job/76786987619