The pointer is misused and could set wrong MAC address. As a result, some
of packets can be dropped in receiver side due to MAC address mismatch.
This can be shown as performance degradation.
Bugzilla ID: 188
Fixes:
62b52877adbe ("app/testpmd: batch MAC swap for performance on x86")
Signed-off-by: Yongseok Koh <yskoh@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
eth_hdr[0] = rte_pktmbuf_mtod(mb[0], struct ether_hdr *);
/* Swap dest and src mac addresses. */
- addr0 = _mm_loadu_si128((__m128i *)eth_hdr);
+ addr0 = _mm_loadu_si128((__m128i *)eth_hdr[0]);
addr0 = _mm_shuffle_epi8(addr0, shfl_msk);
_mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)eth_hdr[0], addr0);