From: Bill Zhou <dongz@mellanox.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Cc: Matan Azrad <matan@mellanox.com>, Ori Kam <orika@mellanox.com>,
"wenzhuo.lu@intel.com" <wenzhuo.lu@intel.com>,
"jingjing.wu@intel.com" <jingjing.wu@intel.com>,
"bernard.iremonger@intel.com" <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>,
"john.mcnamara@intel.com" <john.mcnamara@intel.com>,
"marko.kovacevic@intel.com" <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>,
"ferruh.yigit@intel.com" <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
"arybchenko@solarflare.com" <arybchenko@solarflare.com>,
"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ethdev: support flow aging
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 04:02:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <VI1PR0502MB2943279864BBCA791435E144DDDD0@VI1PR0502MB2943.eurprd05.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10038737.aFP6jjVeTY@thomas>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> Sent: Friday, April 10, 2020 6:14 PM
> To: Bill Zhou <dongz@mellanox.com>
> Cc: Matan Azrad <matan@mellanox.com>; Ori Kam <orika@mellanox.com>;
> wenzhuo.lu@intel.com; jingjing.wu@intel.com;
> bernard.iremonger@intel.com; john.mcnamara@intel.com;
> marko.kovacevic@intel.com; ferruh.yigit@intel.com;
> arybchenko@solarflare.com; dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] ethdev: support flow aging
>
> 10/04/2020 11:46, BillZhou:
> > One of the reasons to destroy a flow is the fact that no packet
> > matches the flow for "timeout" time.
> > For example, when TCP\UDP sessions are suddenly closed.
> >
> > Currently, there is no any DPDK mechanism for flow aging and the
> > applications use their own ways to detect and destroy aged-out flows.
> >
> > The flow aging implementation need include:
> > - A new rte_flow action: RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_AGE to set the
> timeout and
> > the application flow context for each flow.
> > - A new ethdev event: RTE_ETH_EVENT_FLOW_AGED for the driver to
> report
> > that there are new aged-out flows.
> > - A new rte_flow API: rte_flow_get_aged_flows to get the aged-out flows
> > contexts from the port.
> > - Support input flow aging command line in Testpmd.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: BillZhou <dongz@mellanox.com>
>
> I think you should insert a space in your name: Bill Zhou.
> I find strange to associate "Bill Zhou" with "dongz" in your email.
> Are you sure you don't want to mention "Dong"?
Thanks for your mention, it's will be updated in the latter patches.
>
>
> > + * Added support for flow Aging mechanism base on counter.
>
> Aging -> aging
> base -> based
> counter -> hardware counter?
For Mellanox mlx5 driver, flow aging is based on hardware counter update.
But for this patch, it's not include this support, so remove this line.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-13 4:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-26 10:18 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] [RFC] " Matan Azrad
2019-06-06 10:24 ` Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-06-06 10:51 ` Matan Azrad
2019-06-06 12:15 ` Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-06-18 5:56 ` Matan Azrad
2019-06-24 6:26 ` Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-06-27 8:26 ` Matan Azrad
2020-03-16 16:13 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-03-16 10:22 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " BillZhou
2020-03-16 12:52 ` BillZhou
2020-03-20 6:59 ` Jerin Jacob
2020-03-24 10:18 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-04-10 9:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " BillZhou
2020-04-10 10:14 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-04-13 4:02 ` Bill Zhou [this message]
2020-04-10 12:07 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-04-10 12:41 ` Jerin Jacob
2020-04-12 9:13 ` Ori Kam
2020-04-12 9:48 ` Matan Azrad
2020-04-14 8:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Dong Zhou
2020-04-14 8:49 ` Ori Kam
2020-04-14 9:23 ` Bill Zhou
2020-04-16 13:32 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-04-17 22:00 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-04-17 22:07 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-04-18 5:04 ` Bill Zhou
2020-04-18 9:44 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-04-20 14:06 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-04-20 16:10 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-04-21 10:04 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-04-21 10:09 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-04-21 15:59 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-04-21 6:22 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Bill Zhou
2020-04-21 10:11 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] " Bill Zhou
2020-04-21 17:13 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-04-29 14:50 ` Tom Barbette
2020-04-30 7:36 ` Matan Azrad
2020-04-30 7:49 ` Tom Barbette
2020-04-13 14:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] " Dong Zhou
2020-04-13 14:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] net/mlx5: modify ext-counter memory allocation Dong Zhou
2020-04-13 14:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] net/mlx5: support flow aging Dong Zhou
2020-04-24 10:45 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/2] " Bill Zhou
2020-04-24 10:45 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] net/mlx5: modify ext-counter memory allocation Bill Zhou
2020-04-24 10:45 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] net/mlx5: support flow aging Bill Zhou
2020-04-26 7:07 ` Suanming Mou
2020-04-29 2:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/2] " Bill Zhou
2020-04-29 2:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/2] net/mlx5: modify ext-counter memory allocation Bill Zhou
2020-04-29 2:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/2] net/mlx5: support flow aging Bill Zhou
2020-05-03 7:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/2] " Matan Azrad
2020-05-03 11:47 ` Raslan Darawsheh
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