Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/nfp: fix data offset initialization in TX descriptors

Please, ignore this patch. It is not clear yet if we need this. We thought it was fixing a problem but we have doubts now. I have changed the status of the patch to not applicable. thanks On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 4:52 PM, Alejandro Lucero < alejandro.luc...@netronome.com> wrote: > The mbuf struct

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/nfp: fix data offset initialization in TX descriptors

The mbuf struct allows to prepend metadata and the NFP TX descriptors needs to give the data offset to the NIC. There is no application using this metadata but it is possible the PMD itself using it in the future for supporting hardware offloads like OVS offload. Also, this patch fixes a potentia