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From: Olivier MATZ <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
To: Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@linaro.org>, dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] rte_mbuf's packet_type field
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 10:28:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56D95547.8080601@6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56D5CE1B.2070002@linaro.org>

Hi Zoltan,

On 03/01/2016 06:15 PM, Zoltan Kiss wrote:
> I have a quick question about this field: how do I know if the
> underlying PMD supports a particular protocol parsing. Let's say I want
> to check for SCTP packets, looking at this field tells me EITHER the
> packet is SCTP (or not), OR that the hardware has no idea about SCTP. Is
> there a way to figure that support out?

I'm not aware of such a feature. I guess you want to avoid to re-check
all protocols in software if the hardware supports some of them and
did not recognize them? In that case it may be interesting, but it would
result in a lot of feature flags.

Regards,
Olivier

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-04  9:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-01 17:15 Zoltan Kiss
2016-03-04  9:28 ` Olivier MATZ [this message]
2016-03-04 10:58   ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-03-04 13:40     ` Zoltan Kiss

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