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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 0/3] lpm: increase number of next hops for
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On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 09:33:05AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 09:20:33 -0700
> Matthew Hall <mhall@mhcomputing.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 03:51:48PM +0200, Michal Jastrzebski wrote:
> > > From: Michal Kobylinski  <michalx.kobylinski@intel.com>
> > > 
> > > The current DPDK implementation for LPM for IPv4 and IPv6 limits the
> > > number of next hops to 256, as the next hop ID is an 8-bit long field.
> > > Proposed extension increase number of next hops for IPv4 to 2^24 and
> > > also allows 32-bits read/write operations.
> > > 
> > > This patchset requires additional change to rte_table library to meet 
> > > ABI compatibility requirements. A v2 will be sent next week.
> > 
> > I also have a patchset for this.
> > 
> > I will send it out as well so we could compare.
> > 
> > Matthew.
> 
> Could you consider rolling in the Brocade/Vyatta changes to LPM
> structure as well. Would prefer only one ABI change

Hi Stephen,

I asked you if you could send me these a while ago but I never heard anything.

That's the only reason I made my own version.

If you have them available also maybe we can consolidate things.

Matthew.