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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Dekel Peled <dekelp@mellanox.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, jerinjacobk@gmail.com, stephen@networkplumber.org,
	arybchenko@solarflare.com, ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com,
	maxime.coquelin@redhat.com, olivier.matz@6wind.com,
	david.marchand@redhat.com, ferruh.yigit@intel.com,
	asafp@mellanox.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: announce change in ETH and VLAN item structs
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2020 14:25:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2923630.3o79E1KD6h@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d7071384e8ac134037c6c6d3aa7a81809c4a3fa1.1596710789.git.dekelp@mellanox.com>

06/08/2020 12:45, Dekel Peled:
> Structs rte_flow_item_eth and rte_flow_item_vlan will be modified,
> to include an additional value, indicating existence or absence of VLAN
> headers following the current header, as proposed in RFC
> https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-August/177536.html.
> Because of ABI break this change is proposed for 20.11.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dekel Peled <dekelp@mellanox.com>
> ---
> +* ethdev: The ``struct rte_flow_item_eth`` and ``struct rte_flow_item_vlan``
> +  structs will be modified, to include an additional value, indicating existence
> +  or absence of a VLAN header following the current header, as proposed in RFC
> +  https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-August/177536.html.

Specifying match patterns on none or multiple extensions
is difficult to manage with rte_flow.
It seems this approach of adding explicit fields in the items
can work well.

Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>



  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-06 12:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-04 16:01 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce change in ETH item struct Dekel Peled
2020-08-05  3:39 ` Ajit Khaparde
2020-08-05 10:49 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-08-05 13:31   ` Dekel Peled
2020-08-05 13:44     ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-08-05 14:25       ` Dekel Peled
2020-08-06 10:45 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: announce change in ETH and VLAN item structs Dekel Peled
2020-08-06 12:25   ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2020-08-06 15:14     ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-08-06 15:50       ` Ajit Khaparde
2020-08-06 21:57         ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-08-06 17:07   ` Ori Kam

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