[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/3] ethdev: extend struct to support flow director in VFs

[Jingjing Wu <jingjing.wu@intel.com>]

This patch extends struct rte_eth_fdir_flow_ext to support flow
director in VFs.

Signed-off-by: Jingjing Wu <jingjing.wu@intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 4 ----
 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_2_2.rst | 3 +++
 lib/librte_ether/rte_eth_ctrl.h      | 2 ++
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index a391ff0..cd2b80c 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -17,10 +17,6 @@ Deprecation Notices
   imissed, ibadcrc, ibadlen, imcasts, fdirmatch, fdirmiss,
   tx_pause_xon, rx_pause_xon, tx_pause_xoff, rx_pause_xoff
 
-* ABI changes are planned for struct rte_eth_fdir_flow_ext in order to support
-  flow director filtering in VF. The release 2.1 does not contain these ABI
-  changes, but release 2.2 will, and no backwards compatibility is planned.
-
 * ABI changes are planned for struct rte_eth_fdir_filter and
   rte_eth_fdir_masks in order to support new flow director modes,
   MAC VLAN and Cloud, on x550. The MAC VLAN mode means the MAC and
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_2_2.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_2_2.rst
index 116162e..8ca3872 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_2_2.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_2_2.rst
@@ -164,6 +164,9 @@ ABI Changes
 * librte_cfgfile: Allow longer names and values by increasing the constants
   CFG_NAME_LEN and CFG_VALUE_LEN to 64 and 256 respectively.
 
+* The rte_eth_fdir_flow_ext structure is changed. New fields are added to
+  support flow director filtering in VF.
+
 
 Shared Library Versions
 -----------------------
diff --git a/lib/librte_ether/rte_eth_ctrl.h b/lib/librte_ether/rte_eth_ctrl.h
index 770c76c..3f86094 100644
--- a/lib/librte_ether/rte_eth_ctrl.h
+++ b/lib/librte_ether/rte_eth_ctrl.h
@@ -426,6 +426,8 @@ struct rte_eth_fdir_flow_ext {
 	uint16_t vlan_tci;
 	uint8_t flexbytes[RTE_ETH_FDIR_MAX_FLEXLEN];
 	/**< It is filled by the flexible payload to match. */
+	uint8_t is_vf;   /**< 1 for VF, 0 for port dev */
+	uint16_t dst_id; /**< VF ID, available when is_vf is 1*/
 };
 
 /**
-- 
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