From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Kirill Rybalchenko <kirill.rybalchenko@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
andrey.chilikin@intel.com, beilei.xing@intel.com,
jingjing.wu@intel.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/2] ethdev: add support for raw flow type for flow director
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2017 19:56:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2274280.QUHihWPneZ@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e96e47fc-0ae3-84b0-930f-c0351c8b2094@intel.com>
04/10/2017 19:44, Ferruh Yigit:
> On 10/4/2017 5:57 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 03/10/2017 21:02, Ferruh Yigit:
> >> On 9/20/2017 9:42 AM, Kirill Rybalchenko wrote:
> >>> For complex packets use raw flow type with pre-constructed packet buffer
> >>> instead of creating a packet internally in PMD.
> >
> > Sorry for not catching this series before.
> >
> > As it has been said several times on this mailing list,
> > the flow director API is deprecated.
> > I think everybody here knows that it is going to be replaced
> > by rte_flow.
> >
> > That's why it does not make sense to extend flow director.
> > We are not going to update PMDs to support a new type
> > of legacy flow director.
> > Please focus your efforts on rte_flow.
>
> As far as I can see this is not to to extend flow director. But driver
> uses this struct and adding a new feature into driver requires update in
> this struct.
>
> I guess idea was for new filter functionalities PMD should use rte_flow,
> that is the new shiny method we have, I see the point here. But I don't
> see the point of making these structs under use completely immutable.
I don't know what is RTE_ETH_FLOW_RAW.
Let's start by explaining it, how it is used by users,
and why this struct is needed.
Thanks
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-04 17:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-24 15:30 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH " Kirill Rybalchenko
2017-08-24 15:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] " Kirill Rybalchenko
2017-09-04 10:35 ` Radu Nicolau
2017-08-24 15:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] net/i40e: " Kirill Rybalchenko
2017-09-04 10:38 ` Radu Nicolau
2017-09-20 8:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/2] ethdev: " Kirill Rybalchenko
2017-09-20 8:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] " Kirill Rybalchenko
2017-09-20 8:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] net/i40e: " Kirill Rybalchenko
2017-10-03 19:02 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/2] ethdev: " Ferruh Yigit
2017-10-04 16:57 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-10-04 17:44 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-10-04 17:56 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2017-10-04 19:47 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-10-04 22:42 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-10-05 9:09 ` Rybalchenko, Kirill
2017-10-05 20:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/4] " Kirill Rybalchenko
2017-10-05 20:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/4] " Kirill Rybalchenko
2017-10-05 20:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/4] net/i40e: " Kirill Rybalchenko
2017-10-05 20:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/4] app/testpmd: add raw flow type to " Kirill Rybalchenko
2017-10-05 20:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/4] doc: add description of raw flow type in flow director in testpmd Kirill Rybalchenko
2017-10-10 20:13 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/4] add support for raw flow type for flow director Kirill Rybalchenko
2017-10-10 20:13 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/4] ethdev: " Kirill Rybalchenko
2017-10-10 20:13 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/4] net/i40e: " Kirill Rybalchenko
2017-10-10 20:13 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/4] app/testpmd: add raw flow type to " Kirill Rybalchenko
2017-10-10 20:13 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 4/4] doc: add description of raw mode in flow director in testpmd Kirill Rybalchenko
2017-10-10 20:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 0/4] add support for raw flow type for flow director Kirill Rybalchenko
2017-10-10 20:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/4] ethdev: " Kirill Rybalchenko
2017-10-11 22:26 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-10-12 11:41 ` Rybalchenko, Kirill
2017-10-12 12:01 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-10-12 16:14 ` Adrien Mazarguil
2017-10-10 20:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 2/4] net/i40e: " Kirill Rybalchenko
2017-10-10 20:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 3/4] app/testpmd: add raw flow type to " Kirill Rybalchenko
2017-10-13 3:27 ` Wu, Jingjing
2017-10-10 20:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 4/4] doc: add description of raw mode in flow director in testpmd Kirill Rybalchenko
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