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From: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>
To: thomas@monjalon.net
Cc: ferruh.yigit@intel.com, dev@dpdk.org, Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>
Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] ethdev: refine doxygen for add UDP tunnel port API
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 11:19:05 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210119031905.518082-1-qi.z.zhang@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210112114703.350878-1-qi.z.zhang@intel.com>

Refine the doxygen for rte_eth_dev_udp_tunnel_port_add.
Add more detail description of the impacted offload functions.

Signed-off-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>
---

v2:
- reword doxygen that focus on API impact base on previous discussion. 

 lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h b/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h
index f758ec837..ab50a7039 100644
--- a/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h
+++ b/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h
@@ -4031,6 +4031,17 @@ rte_eth_dev_rss_hash_conf_get(uint16_t port_id,
  * to change or add more UDP port for the tunnel. So the offloading function
  * can take effect on the packets with the specific UDP port.
  *
+ * The impacted offloading functions include:
+ *
+ * - A specific tunnel type in mbuf->packet_type
+ *
+ * - A rte_flow rule that matches on specific tunnel header
+ *
+ * NOTE: If a packet only has a matched UDP port but don't have a legal tunnel
+ *       header, the packet may still not be recognized as a tunnel packet by
+ *       the device parser, then the related offloading function will not take
+ *       effect.
+ *
  * @param port_id
  *   The port identifier of the Ethernet device.
  * @param tunnel_udp
-- 
2.26.2


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-01-19  3:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-12 11:47 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ethdev: refine API description Qi Zhang
2021-01-15 15:51 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-01-18  4:01   ` Zhang, Qi Z
2021-01-18  9:49     ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-01-19  0:47       ` Zhang, Qi Z
2021-01-19  3:19 ` Qi Zhang [this message]
2021-01-27 11:34   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] ethdev: refine doxygen for add UDP tunnel port API Ferruh Yigit
2021-01-27 22:46     ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-02-03 20:02 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/1] ethdev: refine doxygen comment of UDP tunnel API Thomas Monjalon
2021-02-06 10:40   ` Andrew Rybchenko
2021-02-10 11:20     ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-02-10 19:10       ` Thomas Monjalon

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