Hi Pavan From: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavat...@marvell.com> > Some PMDs cannot work when certain offloads are enable/disabled, as a > workaround PMDs auto enable/disable offloads internally and expose it > through dev->data->dev_conf.rxmode.offloads. > > After device specific dev_configure is called compare the requested offloads > to the offloads exposed by the PMD and, if the PMD failed to enable a given > offload then log it and return -EINVAL from rte_eth_dev_configure, else if > the PMD failed to disable a given offload log and continue with > rte_eth_dev_configure. >
rte_eth_dev_configure can be called more than 1 time in the device life time, How can you know what is the minimum offload configurations required by the port after the first call? Maybe putting it in dev info is better, what do you think? Matan
