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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Kirill Rybalchenko <kirill.rybalchenko@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, andrey.chilikin@intel.com, beilei.xing@intel.com,
	jingjing.wu@intel.com, ferruh.yigit@intel.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/4] ethdev: add support for raw flow type for flow director
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 00:26:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8389257.54itpyZSoc@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1507667338-15742-2-git-send-email-kirill.rybalchenko@intel.com>

Hi,

10/10/2017 22:28, Kirill Rybalchenko:
> Add new structure rte_eth_raw_flow to the union rte_eth_fdir_flow
> to support filter for raw flow type.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kirill Rybalchenko <kirill.rybalchenko@intel.com>

This description does not explain why you add this new flow director type.
It seems you are allowing a new feature to filter custom protocols.

As I replied on v2, you are implementing your new feature with
a deprecated API (there is a deprecation notice without any deadline).
It is dangerous because this new use case will be settled on top
of a fragile foundation. And because of these new users, it will be
harder to drop this API as announced.
It is also dangerous because you are not trying to implement your
feature with the new rte_flow API. So we cannot be sure that it
will fit for every use cases.
If rte_flow is not good enough, we must improve it.

This is my suggestion:
1/ Implement this interesting feature with rte_flow.
2/ Switch every other use cases to rte_flow.
3/ Let's agree on a date to drop the legacy flow director API.

So this is a NACK.
Please let's move forward.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-11 22:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-24 15:30 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] " 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
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 [this message]
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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