Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/3] mbuf:redefine three TX ol_flags

[Olivier MATZ <olivier.matz@6wind.com>]

Hi Jijiang,

On 12/02/2014 04:06 PM, Jijiang Liu wrote:
> The reason of redefining the PKT_TX_IPV4 and the PKT_TX_IPV6 is listed below,
> It will avoid to send a packet with a bad info:
>    - we receive a Ether/IP6/IP4/L4/data packet
>    - the driver sets PKT_RX_IPV6_HDR
>    - the stack decapsulates IP6
>    - the stack sends the packet, it has the PKT_TX_IPV6 flag but it's an IPv4 packet.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jijiang Liu <jijiang.liu@intel.com>
> ---
>   lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h |   10 +++++-----
>   1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h b/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h
> index 2e5fce5..cbadf8e 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h
> +++ b/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h
> @@ -141,13 +141,13 @@ extern "C" {
>   #define PKT_TX_IP_CKSUM      (1ULL << 54) /**< IP cksum of TX pkt. computed by NIC. */
>   #define PKT_TX_IPV4_CSUM     PKT_TX_IP_CKSUM /**< Alias of PKT_TX_IP_CKSUM. */
>
> -/** Tell the NIC it's an IPv4 packet. Required for L4 checksum offload or TSO. */
> -#define PKT_TX_IPV4          PKT_RX_IPV4_HDR
> +/** Packet is IPv4 without requiring IP checksum offload. */
> +#define PKT_TX_IPV4          (1ULL << 55)
>
> -/** Tell the NIC it's an IPv6 packet. Required for L4 checksum offload or TSO. */
> -#define PKT_TX_IPV6          PKT_RX_IPV6_HDR
> +/** Tell the NIC it's an IPv6 packet.*/
> +#define PKT_TX_IPV6          (1ULL << 56)
>
> -#define PKT_TX_VLAN_PKT      (1ULL << 55) /**< TX packet is a 802.1q VLAN packet. */
> +#define PKT_TX_VLAN_PKT      (1ULL << 57) /**< TX packet is a 802.1q VLAN packet. */
>
>   /* Use final bit of flags to indicate a control mbuf */
>   #define CTRL_MBUF_FLAG       (1ULL << 63) /**< Mbuf contains control data */
>

Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>