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

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Wed, 20 May 2026 08:44:59 +0100
Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 19, 2026 at 12:43:32PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > 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.  
> 
> Yes, it would be nice to use in places. However, it's not a mechanical
> change so I've not taken the time to do the analysis. Just a quick set of
> sed replacements for this RFC.
> 
> /Bruce

There is a coccinelle script already to do this.
It is slow but does find things.
There doesn't seem to find any matches even after this patchset