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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, xiaolong.ye@intel.com, ferruh.yigit@intel.com,
	arybchenko@solarflare.com, orika@mellanox.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] net/ice: add flow mark hint support
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 19:56:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2166340.TqaS7Hc55D@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191119061442.21369-1-qi.z.zhang@intel.com>

19/11/2019 07:14, Qi Zhang:
> Since not all data paths support flow mark, the driver needs
> a hint from application to select the correct data path if
> flow mark is required. The patch introduces a devarg
> "flow-mark-support" as a workaround solution, since a standard
> way is still ongoing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>
> Acked-by: Qiming Yang <qiming.yang@intel.com>
> ---
> 
> v4:
> - remove debug code, fix typos
> 
> v3:
> - add "experimental notification" in ice.rst
> 
> v2:
> - fix typos

Please use --in-reply-to to help tracking all the versions together.

> +- ``Flow Mark Support`` (default ``0``)
> +
> +  This is a hint to the driver to select the data path that supports flow mark extraction
> +  by default.
> +  NOTE: This is an experimental devarg, it will be removed when any of below conditions
> +  is ready.
> +  1) all data paths support flow mark (currently vPMD does not)
> +  2) a new offload like RTE_DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_FLOW_MARK be introduced as a standard way to hint.

When the data path is selected?
I suppose such decision should be done when starting the port,
after everything is configured.
So you can check if a rte_flow rule was added for mark action.
Why the user needs to use an explicit option?



  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-11-20 18:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-19  6:14 Qi Zhang
2019-11-19  6:34 ` Ye Xiaolong
2019-11-20 18:56 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2019-11-21  1:19   ` Zhang, Qi Z
2019-11-21  7:36     ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-11-21 12:40       ` Zhang, Qi Z
2019-11-21 21:05         ` Thomas Monjalon

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