Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 01/10] ethdev: add a generic flow and new behavior switch to fdir

[Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>]

On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 02:02:22PM +0530, Rahul Lakkireddy wrote:
> Add a new raw packet flow that allows specifying generic flow input.
> 
> Add the ability to provide masks for fields in flow to allow range of
> values.
> 
> Add a new behavior switch.
> 
> Add the ability to provide behavior arguments to allow rewriting matched
> fields with new values. Ex: allows to provide new ip and port addresses
> to rewrite the fields of packets matching a filter rule before NAT'ing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kumar Sanghvi <kumaras@chelsio.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/release_2_3.rst |  3 +++
>  lib/librte_ether/rte_eth_ctrl.h      | 15 ++++++++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
Thomas, any comments as ethdev maintainer?

Jingjing, you have been doing some work on flow director for other NICs. Can
you perhaps review this patch as well.

Regards,
/Bruce