I see thanks for the tip. Cheers, Pepe
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Etai Lev-Ran <elevran at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Pepe, > > In addition, you may want to consider the frame's lifetime, to ensure > memory > is used and released > in a valid way. > When sending, it may be de-referenced by DPDK and consequently a memory > free > may be tried. > Hence, it is important that the raw buffer used for the ARP packet is > allocated with a > reference added (or, alternately, just add-ref to the packet and ensure > it'll not be freed by DPDK > directly). > > Regards, > Etai > > -----Original Message----- > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Prashant Upadhyaya > Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 11:15 AM > To: Jose Gavine Cueto; dev at dpdk.org > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] raw frame to rte_mbuf > > Hi Pepe, > > Ofcourse a simple cast will not suffice. > Please look the rte_mbuf structure in the header files and let me know if > you still have the confusion. > There is a header and payload. Your raw frame will go in the payload. > > > Regards > -Prashant > > -----Original Message----- > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Jose Gavine Cueto > Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 1:49 PM > To: dev at dpdk.org > Subject: [dpdk-dev] raw frame to rte_mbuf > > Hi, > > In DPDK how should a raw ethernet frame converted to rte_mbuf * ? For > example if I have an ARP packet: > > void * arp_pkt > > how should this be converted to an rte_mbuf * for transmission, does a > simple cast suffice ? > > Cheers, > Pepe > > -- > To stop learning is like to stop loving. > > > > > > ============================================================================ > === > Please refer to http://www.aricent.com/legal/email_disclaimer.html > for important disclosures regarding this electronic communication. > > ============================================================================ > === > > -- To stop learning is like to stop loving.
