[RFC PATCH 0/8] remove use of rte_memcpy from net/intel
Stephen Hemminger
stephen at networkplumber.org
Tue May 19 21:43:32 CEST 2026
On Tue, 19 May 2026 16:05:57 +0000
Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:
> 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.
Makes sense. You might also want to look for where structure
assignment can be used instead of memcpy. Keeping data types
is a good thing.
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