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From: "Liu, Jijiang" <jijiang.liu@intel.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
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>=20
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon@6wind.com]
> > Sent: Monday, December 14, 2015 11:04 PM
> > To: Liu, Jijiang
> > Cc: dev@dpdk.org
> > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce ABI change for struct
> > rte_eth_tunnel_flow
> >
> > 2015-12-09 13:37, Jijiang Liu:
> > > The struct 'rte_eth_tunnel_flow' is only used by struct
> > > 'rte_eth_fdir_flow' now, but its name is generic, and I plan to
> > > extend new
> > fileds like below to support generic configuration for tunneling packet=
.
> >
> > You have not explained what the changes are for.
> > So it's really difficult to have an opinion.
> > Please describe an use case.
> For i40e flow director, it can use more fields such as inner destination =
IP,
> inner MAC outer destination MAC and outer destination IP to do
> classification for tunneling packet.
> Otherwise, we also can use this structure to store tunnel flow configurat=
ion,
> not just for classification.
>=20
> > PS: "filed" -> "field"

After aligning with Jingjing, she have already sent ABI change announcement=
 for struct 'rte_eth_fdir_flow'to extend input set of FD, refer to[1].
And change of struct 'rte_eth_tunnel_flow' I want to announce can be includ=
ed in hers, so I don't need to announce it again. Thanks.=20

[1]http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2015-November/027915.html