From: Olivier MATZ <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
To: "Ananyev, Konstantin" <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>,
"Zhang, Helin" <helin.zhang@intel.com>,
"Liu, Jijiang" <jijiang.liu@intel.com>,
"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 2/3] mbuf:add three TX ol_flags and repalce PKT_TX_VXLAN_CKSUM
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 14:47:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <548065FA.6040105@6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2601191342CEEE43887BDE71AB977258213BC6D5@IRSMSX105.ger.corp.intel.com>
Hi,
On 12/04/2014 11:19 AM, Ananyev, Konstantin wrote:
>>> 1/ (Jijiang's patch)
>>> PKT_TX_IP_CKSUM /* packet is IPv4, and we want hw cksum */
>>> PKT_TX_IPV6 /* packet is IPv6 */
>>> PKT_TX_IPV4 /* packet is IPv4, and we don't want hw cksum */
>>>
>>> with PKT_TX_IP_CKSUM and PKT_TX_IPV4 exclusive
>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>> 2/
>>> PKT_TX_IP_CKSUM /* we want hw IP cksum */
>>> PKT_TX_IPV6 /* packet is IPv6 */
>>> PKT_TX_IPV4 /* packet is IPv4 */
>> There is another bit flag named 'PKT_TX_IPV4_CSUM' which uses the
>> same bit of 'PKT_TX_IP_CSUM'. It is for identifying if ipv4 hardware
>> checksum offload is needed or not.
>
> Yes, 'PKT_TX_IPV4_CSUM is an alias to PKT_TX_IP_CKSUM and we are going to remove it.
>
>> It seems that we do not need 'PKT_TX_IPV6_CSUM'.
>
> No one even planned it.
>
>> 'PKT_TX_IPV4' and 'PKT_TX_IPV6' just indicates its packet type, and I guess
>> other features should not be contained in it, according to its name.
>>
>> So here I got the option 3:
>> PKT_TX_IPV4_CKSUM /* we want hw IPv4 cksum */
>> PKT_TX_IPV6 /* packet is IPv6 */
>> PKT_TX_IPV4 /* packet is IPv4 */
>
> Hmm, and how this is different from what we have now in the Jijiang's patch?
> Except that you renamed PKT_TX_IP_CKSUM to PKT_TX_IPV4_CKSUM?
I think it's more like solution 2 with a renaming. And it is more
coherent to always have "IPV4" on all flag names.
Regards,
Olivier
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-04 13:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-02 15:06 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 0/3] i40e VXLAN TX checksum rework Jijiang Liu
2014-12-02 15:06 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/3] mbuf:redefine three TX ol_flags Jijiang Liu
2014-12-03 11:35 ` Olivier MATZ
2014-12-02 15:06 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 2/3] mbuf:add three TX ol_flags and repalce PKT_TX_VXLAN_CKSUM Jijiang Liu
2014-12-03 11:41 ` Olivier MATZ
2014-12-03 12:59 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2014-12-03 14:41 ` Olivier MATZ
2014-12-04 2:08 ` Liu, Jijiang
2014-12-04 10:23 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2014-12-04 10:45 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-12-04 11:03 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2014-12-04 13:51 ` Olivier MATZ
2014-12-04 22:56 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2014-12-05 4:17 ` Liu, Jijiang
2014-12-04 6:52 ` Zhang, Helin
2014-12-04 7:52 ` Liu, Jijiang
2014-12-04 10:19 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2014-12-04 13:47 ` Olivier MATZ [this message]
2014-12-04 21:42 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2014-12-05 1:15 ` Zhang, Helin
2014-12-05 11:11 ` Olivier MATZ
2014-12-02 15:06 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 3/3] mbuf:replace the inner_l2_len and the inner_l3_len fields Jijiang Liu
2014-12-03 11:45 ` Olivier MATZ
2014-12-05 11:12 ` Olivier MATZ
2014-12-02 15:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 0/3] i40e VXLAN TX checksum rework Ananyev, Konstantin
2014-12-05 16:07 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-12-07 11:46 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
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