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From: Ori Kam <orika@mellanox.com>
To: "Mcnamara, John" <john.mcnamara@intel.com>,
	Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>, Ori Kam <orika@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: add basic howto for flow API
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2017 07:29:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM4PR05MB32027888A436D61C06886404DB400@AM4PR05MB3202.eurprd05.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B27915DBBA3421428155699D51E4CFE23EDDC589@IRSMSX103.ger.corp.intel.com>

Hi John,

Thanks for your comments and time.

Please see my comments inline.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mcnamara, John [mailto:john.mcnamara@intel.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2017 1:06 PM
> To: Ori Kam <orika@mellanox.com>; Adrien Mazarguil
> <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: RE: [PATCH] doc: add basic howto for flow API
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ori Kam [mailto:orika@mellanox.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2017 7:56 AM
> > To: adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com; Mcnamara, John
> > <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
> > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; orika@mellanox.com
> > Subject: [PATCH] doc: add basic howto for flow API
> >
> > As the rte flow is a new complex module in the DPDK.
> > In order to ease developers in to using this feature it was suggested
> > to supply a simple howto doc.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ori Kam <orika@mellanox.com>
> 
> Hi Ori,
> 
> Thanks for useful and very doc. It is good to see additions to the How-to
> guides.
> We should have more of those.
> 
> Some minor comments below.
> 
> 
> >
> > +  tpmd> flow create 0 ingress pattern eth / vlan / ipv4 dst is
> > + 192.168.3.2 / end actions drop / end
> 
> 
> The testpmd commands are very long and run off the page in the PDF and
> Html docs.
> 
> Something like the following would be better and just as clear:
> 
> 
> In this example we will create a simple rule that drops packets whose IPv4
> destination equals 192.168.3.2. This code is equivalent to the following
> testpmd command (wrapped for clarity)::
> 
>   tpmd> flow create 0 ingress pattern eth / vlan /
>                     ipv4 dst is 192.168.3.2 / end actions drop / end
> 
> 
> 

Will fix.

> > +  $scapy
> > +  welcome to Scapy
> > +  >> sendp(Ether()/Dot1Q()/IP(src='176.80.50.4', dst='192.168.3.1'),
> > + iface = <some interface>, count 1)  >>
> > + sendp(Ether()/Dot1Q()/IP(src='176.80.50.5', dst='192.168.3.2'),
> > + iface = <some interface>, count 1)
> > +
> > +terminal 1: output log::
> > +
> > +  received packet with src ip = 176.80.50.4  received packet with src
> > + ip = 176.80.50.5
> > +
> > +terminal 1: running sample app flow rule enabled::
> > +
> > +  ./filter-program enabled
> > +  [waiting for packets]
> > +
> > +terminal 2: running  scapy::
> > +
> > +  $scapy
> > +  welcome to Scapy
> > +  >> sendp(Ether()/Dot1Q()/IP(src='176.80.50.4', dst='192.168.3.1'),
> > + iface = <some interface>, count 1)  >>
> 
> There is a typo here and in the other scapy commands. It should be:
> 
>     count=1
>

Will be fixed.
 
> Also <some interface> would be better as a string. And the line is also long so
> something like this would be better:
> 
> Terminal 2: running  scapy::
> 
>   $scapy
>   welcome to Scapy
>   >> sendp(Ether()/Dot1Q()/IP(src='176.80.50.4', dst='192.168.3.1'), \
>            iface='some interface', count=1)
>   >> sendp(Ether()/Dot1Q()/IP(src='176.80.50.5', dst='192.168.3.2'), \
>            iface='some interface', count=1)
> 

I agree will be changed.

> I have some other small comments/suggestions that I will send to you
> offline.
> 

I will read your comments from the offline mail, and will
send the new version based on the combination of the mails.

> Thanks,
> 
> John

Thanks,

Ori Kam

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-21  7:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-19  6:55 Ori Kam
2017-10-19 10:05 ` Mcnamara, John
2017-10-21  7:29   ` Ori Kam [this message]
2017-10-25 14:51 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Ori Kam
2017-10-25 15:27   ` Mcnamara, John
2017-10-26 23:18     ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-11-02 17:06       ` Mcnamara, John
2017-11-07 21:54     ` Thomas Monjalon

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