From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] ethdev: add isolated mode to flow API
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 23:33:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1756567.58yx1UZM0n@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <df8c777e-9fc0-30c6-f670-662aa8bed96f@solarflare.com>
14/06/2017 17:41, Andrew Rybchenko:
> On 06/14/2017 05:48 PM, Adrien Mazarguil wrote:
> > Isolated mode can be requested by applications on individual ports to avoid
> > ingress traffic outside of the flow rules they define.
> >
> > Besides making ingress more deterministic, it allows PMDs to safely reuse
> > resources otherwise assigned to handle the remaining traffic, such as
> > global RSS configuration settings, VLAN filters, MAC address entries,
> > legacy filter API rules and so on in order to expand the set of possible
> > flow rule types.
> >
> > To minimize code complexity, PMDs implementing this mode may provide
> > partial (or even no) support for flow rules when not enabled (e.g. no
> > priorities, no RSS action). Applications written to use the flow API are
> > therefore encouraged to enable it.
> >
> > Once effective, leaving isolated mode may not be possible depending on PMD
> > implementation.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
> > Acked-by: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>
> > Cc: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
>
> Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
Applied, thanks
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-14 21:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-19 13:45 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " Adrien Mazarguil
2017-05-19 8:14 ` Adrien Mazarguil
2017-05-19 21:00 ` John Daley (johndale)
2017-05-22 10:17 ` Adrien Mazarguil
2017-05-24 13:53 ` Nélio Laranjeiro
2017-05-24 14:57 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Adrien Mazarguil
2017-06-14 12:45 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Adrien Mazarguil
2017-06-14 13:01 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2017-06-14 13:35 ` Adrien Mazarguil
2017-06-14 14:04 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2017-06-14 14:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] " Adrien Mazarguil
2017-06-14 15:41 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2017-06-14 21:33 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
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