From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, bruce.richardson@intel.com,
pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com, john.mcnamara@intel.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/2] ethdev: add tunnel and port RSS offload types
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 08:43:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19576009.SQKuele073@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160622033048.GA5200@localhost.localdomain>
2016-06-22 09:00, Jerin Jacob:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 11:02:59PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > Hi Jerin,
>
> Hi Thomas,
>
> >
> > I wanted to push this patch which is now a dependency of ThunderX
> > but I do not fully understand it.
> >
> > 2016-03-31 02:21, Jerin Jacob:
> > > - added VXLAN, GENEVE and NVGRE tunnel flow types
> > > - added PORT flow type for accounting physical/virtual
> > > port or channel number in flow creation
> > [...]
> > > --- a/lib/librte_ether/rte_eth_ctrl.h
> > > +++ b/lib/librte_ether/rte_eth_ctrl.h
> > > @@ -74,7 +74,11 @@ extern "C" {
> > > #define RTE_ETH_FLOW_IPV6_EX 15
> > > #define RTE_ETH_FLOW_IPV6_TCP_EX 16
> > > #define RTE_ETH_FLOW_IPV6_UDP_EX 17
> > > -#define RTE_ETH_FLOW_MAX 18
> > > +#define RTE_ETH_FLOW_PORT 18
> > > +#define RTE_ETH_FLOW_VXLAN 19
> > > +#define RTE_ETH_FLOW_GENEVE 20
> > > +#define RTE_ETH_FLOW_NVGRE 21
> > > +#define RTE_ETH_FLOW_MAX 22
> >
> > Please could you explain more what is PORT flow?
>
> For example, a NIC card with two physical port where application
> configures RTE_ETH_FLOW_IPV4 for both, In that case
> HW generate same RSS value for a similar IPV4 packet, However, in-case if
> application want to generate a flow that account physical port also then
> it can configure with RTE_ETH_FLOW_IPV4 | RTE_ETH_FLOW_PORT.
>
> RTE_ETH_FLOW_PORT useful for the case where one physical port assigned for
> INBOUND traffic and other-one for OUTBOUND traffic etc
OK
> > Does it need a comment in the code?
> Not sure, commit log has description.
How do you expect the user to understand this new value in the API?
Users do not check in the git history.
They use doxygen, headers comments and/or examples.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-22 6:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-26 17:55 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH " Jerin Jacob
2016-03-26 17:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] ethdev: add ETH_RSS_RETA_SIZE_256 Jerin Jacob
2016-03-29 11:20 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/2] New RSS offload flags Jerin Jacob
2016-03-29 11:20 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] ethdev: add tunnel and port RSS offload types Jerin Jacob
2016-03-29 11:26 ` Mcnamara, John
2016-03-29 11:58 ` De Lara Guarch, Pablo
2016-03-30 20:47 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-03-30 20:51 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/2] New RSS offload flags Jerin Jacob
2016-03-30 20:51 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/2] ethdev: add tunnel and port RSS offload types Jerin Jacob
2016-04-01 14:04 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-04-01 14:29 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-06-16 11:46 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-06-21 21:02 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-06-22 3:30 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-06-22 6:43 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2016-06-22 7:15 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-06-22 7:52 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-06-22 13:03 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/2] New RSS offload flags Jerin Jacob
2016-06-22 13:03 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/2] ethdev: add tunnel and port RSS offload types Jerin Jacob
2016-06-22 15:06 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-06-22 16:48 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-06-22 13:03 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/2] ethdev: add ETH_RSS_RETA_SIZE_256 Jerin Jacob
2016-06-22 17:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/2] New RSS offload flags Thomas Monjalon
2016-03-30 20:51 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/2] ethdev: add ETH_RSS_RETA_SIZE_256 Jerin Jacob
2016-03-29 11:20 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 " Jerin Jacob
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