From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (out1-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D25FD1DC2E for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2018 13:20:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.internal [10.202.2.41]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6123B218FD; Mon, 11 Jun 2018 07:20:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailfrontend2 ([10.202.2.163]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 11 Jun 2018 07:20:51 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=monjalon.net; h= cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-me-sender :x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=EI6XYlqt+wVZzYfJ7narS6czvu ruQ6ZyfTrWz31TGSE=; b=DJmsrMPlkJGtHQxpdHdujVq8nrDsaSEMy5wpY0PFvC RiM+XbJ/tmfpINS37toplAbWshIwcRFzkfzSWPOwGEseY/0gonqTPErfOYl7igaw rVLp2cUg+3RcEKSQsUGTH5ENyOws/G6sEEwAS6punv3m9LXWwi+jWewlCpBIsr70 0= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=fm3; bh=EI6XYl qt+wVZzYfJ7narS6czvuruQ6ZyfTrWz31TGSE=; b=cWaSKNS83zVvt9ivE4mkcT 4Ast0Yfax6shMFb6kXXsVrENlBoCzr+jlox5He0Jpko70tzRt8t8BfX93NvzpgHl W+pmLRDmqKcZ5fN94zwxd9ekcTick+fP+o2try9cnOtm7xmKURA3AVXUsbBmgJL3 cVTs0dmftPrFw7odk0mwdmscn2sZ0u6cetVjo7+1k87Z1dW4ROEsZWINFwDg3Ixl sLhKal4AjeQMPxYg6vVddZd6E1WAUrQn+VnlBSpR6GwZwLIAPmE+1y8GBTqdEdSe rouBbPgznB8FXTBgcLxVRMeojiTyZxY2V02HuE4HC/xwiU8pT7rt3yRWw/6J2zOw == X-ME-Proxy: X-ME-Proxy: X-ME-Proxy: X-ME-Proxy: X-ME-Proxy: X-ME-Proxy: X-ME-Sender: Received: from xps.localnet (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net [77.134.203.184]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 622A610255; Mon, 11 Jun 2018 07:20:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Ori Kam Cc: dev@dpdk.org, "ferruh.yigit@intel.com" , "declan.doherty@intel.com" , Adrien Mazarguil , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?N=E9lio?= Laranjeiro , shreyansh.jain@nxp.com, jerin.jacob@cavium.com, arybchenko@solarflare.com, "Patil, Harish" , rasesh.mody@cavium.com, hemant.agrawal@nxp.com, Alejandro Lucero , wenzhuo.lu@intel.com, John Daley , "Shukla, Santosh" Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 13:20:47 +0200 Message-ID: <2382625.dHMyoomdcn@xps> In-Reply-To: References: <1528213708-5247-1-git-send-email-orika@mellanox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC] ethdev: support tunnel encapsulation action X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 11:20:52 -0000 11/06/2018 13:03, Ori Kam: > Due to the very short release cycle for this > 18.08 release, and the need for good discussions, > It is more reasonable to target 18.11 for this proposal. I agree the timeframe is too short in 18.08 to accept such a new generic API. > The intent is to have a good generic API for all tunnel encapsulation > and working well with all HW constraints. > > So please let's start the multi-vendor discussion now. Adding more people as Cc to let the discussion starting. > For your information I have submitted a patch for MPLS only (as v2) > to be integrated in 18.08 in the meantime. Yes it is more reasonnable to extend the API introduced in 18.05, by adding MPLS in 18.08. This API requires to declare every tunnel protocols we want to offload. If a more generic API can be found, it could replace the "18.05 one" later.