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2016-10-25 13:04, Ramia, Kannan Babu:
> Port filed is important meta information for the application use like
> CGNAT vEPC functions etc.
> I strongly recommend to keep the field in mind meta.

Have you tried to move this field outside of the mbuf?
What is the performance degradation?
We need more information than some assumptions.