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From: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
To: Kirill Rybalchenko <kirill.rybalchenko@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, jingjing.wu@intel.com, beilei.xing@intel.com,
	johndale@cisco.com, neescoba@cisco.com,
	nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com, yskoh@mellanox.com,
	wenzhuo.lu@intel.com, konstantin.ananyev@intel.com,
	andrey.chilikin@intel.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ethdev: increase flow type limit from 32 to 64
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 18:43:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171204174304.GK4062@6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1511785787-127452-1-git-send-email-kirill.rybalchenko@intel.com>

Hi Kirill,

On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 12:29:47PM +0000, Kirill Rybalchenko wrote:
> Increase the internal limit for flow types from 32 to 64
> to support future flow type extensions.
> Change type of variables from uint32_t[] to uint64_t[]:
>   rte_eth_fdir_info.flow_types_mask
>   rte_eth_hash_global_conf.sym_hash_enable_mask
>   rte_eth_hash_global_conf.valid_bit_mask
> 
> This modification affects the following components:
>   net/i40e
>   net/enic
>   net/mlx5
>   net/ixgbe
>   app/testpmd
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kirill Rybalchenko <kirill.rybalchenko@intel.com>

Can you elaborate a bit on the need for these changes?
Have you considered implementing those future extensions through rte_flow
instead?

-- 
Adrien Mazarguil
6WIND

  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-04 17:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-27 12:29 Kirill Rybalchenko
2017-12-04 17:43 ` Adrien Mazarguil [this message]
2018-01-09 15:16   ` Rybalchenko, Kirill
2018-01-10 13:50     ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-16 11:13     ` Adrien Mazarguil
2018-01-16 17:23       ` Rybalchenko, Kirill
2018-01-16 18:03         ` Adrien Mazarguil
2018-01-09 14:30 ` Zhang, Helin
2018-01-10  6:51 ` Xing, Beilei
2018-01-15 16:58 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Kirill Rybalchenko
2018-01-15 17:33   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Kirill Rybalchenko
2018-01-15 21:27     ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-16  9:44       ` Rybalchenko, Kirill
2018-01-16  9:47         ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-16 10:31           ` Rybalchenko, Kirill
2018-01-16 10:38             ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-17 16:56     ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-01-18  9:24       ` Rybalchenko, Kirill
2018-01-18 12:25       ` Ferruh Yigit

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