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From: Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>, Kumar A S <kumaras@chelsio.com>,
	Nirranjan Kirubaharan <nirranjan@chelsio.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 01/10] ethdev: add a generic flow and new behavior switch to fdir
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 00:10:07 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160224184006.GB8856@chelsio.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13893420.AuWBYNZ43L@xps13>

Hi Thomas,

On Wednesday, February 02/24/16, 2016 at 07:02:42 -0800, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2016-02-24 14:43, Bruce Richardson:
> > On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 02:02:22PM +0530, Rahul Lakkireddy wrote:
> > > Add a new raw packet flow that allows specifying generic flow input.
> > > 
> > > Add the ability to provide masks for fields in flow to allow range of
> > > values.
> > > 
> > > Add a new behavior switch.
> > > 
> > > Add the ability to provide behavior arguments to allow rewriting matched
> > > fields with new values. Ex: allows to provide new ip and port addresses
> > > to rewrite the fields of packets matching a filter rule before NAT'ing.
> > > 
> > Thomas, any comments as ethdev maintainer?
> 
> Yes, some comments.
> First, there are several different changes in the same patch. It must be split.

Should each structure change be split into a separate patch?

> Then I don't understand at all the raw flow filter. What is a raw flow?
> How behavior_arg must be used?
> 

This was discussed with Jingjing at

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.networking.dpdk.devel/31471

A raw flow provides a generic way for vendors to add their vendor
specific input flow.  In our case, it is possible to match several flows
in a single rule.  For example, it's possible to set an ethernet, vlan,
ip and tcp/udp flows all in a single rule.  We can specify all of these
flows in a single raw input flow, which can then be passed to cxgbe flow
director to set the corresponding filter.

On similar lines, behavior_arg provides a generic way to pass extra
action arguments for matched flows.  For example, in our case, to
perform NAT, the new src/dst ip and src/dst port addresses to be
re-written for a matched rule can be passed in behavior_arg.

Thanks,
Rahul

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-24 18:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-03  8:32 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/10] cxgbe: Add flow director support Rahul Lakkireddy
2016-02-03  8:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 01/10] ethdev: add a generic flow and new behavior switch to fdir Rahul Lakkireddy
2016-02-24 14:43   ` Bruce Richardson
2016-02-24 15:02     ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-02-24 18:40       ` Rahul Lakkireddy [this message]
2016-02-24 22:17         ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-02-25  9:33           ` Rahul Lakkireddy
2016-02-25 18:24             ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-02-26  1:17               ` Wu, Jingjing
2016-03-03 15:03                 ` Olga Shern
2016-07-20 10:45                 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-02-25  3:26   ` Wu, Jingjing
2016-02-25  9:11     ` Rahul Lakkireddy
2016-02-03  8:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 02/10] examples/test-cxgbe-filters: add example to test cxgbe fdir support Rahul Lakkireddy
2016-02-24 14:40   ` Bruce Richardson
2016-02-24 18:35     ` Rahul Lakkireddy
2016-02-25 13:48       ` Bruce Richardson
2016-02-03  8:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 03/10] cxgbe: add skeleton to add support for T5 hardware filtering Rahul Lakkireddy
2016-02-03  8:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 04/10] cxgbe: add control txq for communicating filtering info Rahul Lakkireddy
2016-02-03  8:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 05/10] cxgbe: add compressed local IP table for matching IPv6 addresses Rahul Lakkireddy
2016-02-03  8:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 06/10] cxgbe: add layer 2 table for switch action filter Rahul Lakkireddy
2016-02-03  8:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 07/10] cxgbe: add source mac " Rahul Lakkireddy
2016-02-03  8:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 08/10] cxgbe: add LE-TCAM filtering support Rahul Lakkireddy
2016-02-03  8:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 09/10] cxgbe: add HASH " Rahul Lakkireddy
2016-02-03  8:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 10/10] cxgbe: add flow director support and update documentation Rahul Lakkireddy
2016-02-22 10:39 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/10] cxgbe: Add flow director support Rahul Lakkireddy
2016-03-22 13:43 ` Bruce Richardson

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