Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/5] ethdev: negotiate delivery of packet metadata from HW to PMD

[Ori Kam <orika@nvidia.com>]

Hi Ivan,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@broadcom.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 9:04 AM
> metadata from HW to PMD
> 
> On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 3:10 AM Ajit Khaparde
> <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 8:56 AM Ivan Malov <ivan.malov@oktetlabs.ru>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Provide an API to let the application control the NIC's ability
> > > to deliver specific kinds of per-packet metadata to the PMD.
> > >
> > > Checks for the NIC's ability to set these kinds of metadata
> > > in the first place (support for the flow actions) belong in
> > > flow API responsibility domain (flow validate mechanism).
> > > This topic is out of scope of the new API in question.
> > >
> > > The PMD's ability to deliver received metadata to the user
> > > by virtue of mbuf fields should be covered by mbuf library.
> > > It is also out of scope of the new API in question.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Ivan Malov <ivan.malov@oktetlabs.ru>
> > > Reviewed-by: Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru>
> > > Reviewed-by: Andy Moreton <amoreton@xilinx.com>
> > > Acked-by: Ray Kinsella <mdr@ashroe.eu>
> > > Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>
> >
> > Acked-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
> Acked-by: Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@broadcom.com>
Acked-by: Ori Kam <orika@nvidia.com>

Thanks,
Ori