From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mails.dpdk.org (mails.dpdk.org [217.70.189.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07FF5A04FD for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2022 13:50:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3C7B42B77; Fri, 7 Oct 2022 13:50:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from relay9-d.mail.gandi.net (relay9-d.mail.gandi.net [217.70.183.199]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39BA040042; Fri, 7 Oct 2022 13:50:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: (Authenticated sender: i.maximets@ovn.org) by mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B8424FF804; Fri, 7 Oct 2022 11:50:01 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2022 13:50:01 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.2.1 Cc: i.maximets@ovn.org, dev@dpdk.org, stable@dpdk.org, Ajit Khaparde , Rahul Lakkireddy , Hemant Agrawal , Haiyue Wang , John Daley , Guoyang Zhou , "Min Hu (Connor)" , Beilei Xing , Jingjing Wu , Qi Zhang , Rosen Xu , Matan Azrad , Viacheslav Ovsiienko , Liron Himi , Jiawen Wu , Ori Kam Content-Language: en-US To: Thomas Monjalon References: <20220316120157.390311-1-i.maximets@ovn.org> <2843961.e9J7NaK4W3@thomas> From: Ilya Maximets Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: fix support table for ETH and VLAN flow items In-Reply-To: <2843961.e9J7NaK4W3@thomas> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: stable@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: patches for DPDK stable branches List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: stable-bounces@dpdk.org On 9/12/22 12:09, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 16/03/2022 13:01, Ilya Maximets: >> 'has_vlan' attribute is only supported by sfc, mlx5 and cnxk. >> Other drivers doesn't support it. Most of them (like i40e) just >> ignore it silently. Some drivers (like mlx4) never had a full >> support of the eth item even before introduction of 'has_vlan' >> (mlx4 allows to match on the destination MAC only). >> >> Same for the 'has_more_vlan' flag of the vlan item. >> >> Changing the support level to 'partial' for all such drivers. >> This doesn't solve the issue, but at least marks the problematic >> drivers. > > You changed "eth" and "vlan" from "Y" to "P". > The field "has_vlan" is part of "rte_flow_item_eth", > and "has_more_vlan" is part of "rte_flow_item_vlan", > so I agree we need to change both items to "partial support". > It looks to be a good change, just needs to more explicit, > adding this kind of explanation about the fields. I can add this to the commit message. Should I also add some note alongside the table in that documentation page? > > We missed this patch in 22.07, let's have some progress quickly. It was a busy month + PTO, sorry I didn't get to that patch faster. > >> Some details are available in: >> https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=958 > > About rte_flow_item_eth.{src,dst}, I don't find a deprecation notice > about it in the history of the file doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst It took some time to find the deprecation notice, but I did find it in the end. It's in the doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst, and it says: * ethdev: The flow API matching pattern structures, ``struct rte_flow_item_*``, should start with relevant protocol header. Some matching pattern structures implements this by duplicating protocol header fields in the struct. To clarify the intention and to be sure protocol header is intact, will replace those fields with relevant protocol header struct. In v21.02 both individual protocol header fields and the protocol header struct will be added as union, target is switch usage to the protocol header by time. In v21.11 LTS, protocol header fields will be cleaned and only protocol header struct will remain. > This is what we have in the code: > union { > struct { > /* > * These fields are retained for compatibility. > * Please switch to the new header field below. > */ > struct rte_ether_addr dst; /**< Destination MAC. */ > struct rte_ether_addr src; /**< Source MAC. */ > rte_be16_t type; /**< EtherType or TPID. */ > }; > struct rte_ether_hdr hdr; > }; > > Do you think we should remove the old fields now? >From the OVS perspective, we do not care much. OVS is still using old fields, but it's fairly simple change that we can do while moving to a new version of DPDK. >From the perspective of the API clarity, it's probably better to clean up these structures. Best regards, Ilya Maximets. > >> Fixes: 09315fc83861 ("ethdev: add VLAN attributes to ethernet and VLAN items") >> Cc: stable@dpdk.org >> >> Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets > > >