From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] i40e: configure the vector PMD option as no for default for l3fwd undefined ptype issue Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 23:07:38 +0100 Message-ID: <3508231.o8zzsNTpfz@xps13> References: <1447778782-8659-1-git-send-email-zhe.tao@intel.com> <1448304431-26448-1-git-send-email-zhe.tao@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org To: Zhe Tao Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f49.google.com (mail-wm0-f49.google.com [74.125.82.49]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62C6B8E8A for ; Mon, 23 Nov 2015 23:08:55 +0100 (CET) Received: by wmww144 with SMTP id w144so1810262wmw.0 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 2015 14:08:55 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1448304431-26448-1-git-send-email-zhe.tao@intel.com> List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" 2015-11-24 02:47, Zhe Tao: > PATCH v1: configure the vector PMD option as no for FVL > PATCH v2: Update the "know issues" for 2.2 release note > > Issue: l3fwd app need the ptype in the mbuf to forwarding the packets properly. > but now some drivers like virtio driver and FVL vPMD will not set the ptype in > mbuf, so l3fwd cannot work properly on that kind of drivers. > > Configure the vector PMD option as no for default as a work around for l3fwd. > After the l3fwd app can handle the undefined ptype or the i40e vPMD can return > the ptype, the option will be set as yes for default again. > > Signed-off-by: Zhe Tao Applied, thanks.