From: "Liu, Jijiang" <jijiang.liu@intel.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/6]i40e:Add VxLAN Cloud filter API
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 01:44:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1ED644BD7E0A5F4091CF203DAFB8E4CC01D60459@SHSMSX101.ccr.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKfHP0Uexvd52Md7LqX0oekVG5C+Ssn4_Jtb-fTJRj_cBqdo0g@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Thomas,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Markuze [mailto:alex@weka.io]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 10:18 PM
> To: Thomas Monjalon
> Cc: Liu, Jijiang; dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/6]i40e:Add VxLAN Cloud filter API
>
> All are L2 over L3(UDP) - General name - Network Overlay.
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Thomas Monjalon
> <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> wrote:
> > 2014-08-13 08:23, Liu, Jijiang:
> >> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon@6wind.com]
> >> > About API, why name it cloud filter instead of VxLAN?
> >>
> >> VxLAN is just a kind tunnel type, there are another tunnel types
> >> based on protocol type, they are below.
> >> Tunnel Type:
> >> * 0x0: VXLAN
> >> * 0x1: NVGRE or other MAC in GRE
> >> * 0x2: Geneve
> >> 0x3: IP in GRE
> >> Currently, I just implemented VxLAN tunnel type, and we will support
> >> another tunnel types in cloud filter API later.
> >
> > OK, I understand. But cloud filter is just a marketing name.
> > Please let's stick to technical and precise names.
> > It seems these tunnels are L2 over IP, right?
> >
> > --
> > Thomas
I agree. I will change the API name as rte_eth_dev_tunnel_filter_set(), which means the API supports tunneled packet filtering.
Any comments?
Thanks
Jijiang Liu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-18 1:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-12 3:12 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/6]Support VxLAN on fortville Jijiang Liu
2014-08-12 3:12 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/6]i40e:vxlan packet identification Jijiang Liu
2014-08-12 3:12 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/6]app/test-pmd:test vxlan " Jijiang Liu
2014-08-12 3:12 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/6]i40e:Add VxLAN Cloud filter API Jijiang Liu
2014-08-12 10:40 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-08-13 8:23 ` Liu, Jijiang
2014-08-13 13:50 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-08-13 14:17 ` Alex Markuze
2014-08-18 1:44 ` Liu, Jijiang [this message]
2014-08-12 3:12 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/6]app/testpmd:test VxLAN cloud " Jijiang Liu
2014-08-12 3:12 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/6]i40e:VxLAN Tx checksum offload Jijiang Liu
2014-08-12 3:12 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 6/6]app/testpmd:test VxLAN " Jijiang Liu
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