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On Wednesday 22 August 2018 05:16 PM, Vivek Sharma wrote: > External Email > > Hi Devs, > > I am trying to enable RTE-FLOW support on one of our platforms & having hard time in figuring out PF vs PHY_PORT differences and DPDK rationale for introducing these two distinct identities. > > Rte-Flow distinguishes between RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_PF & RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_PHY_PORT and > > RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_PF & RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_PHY_PORT. > > > I am finding it difficult to justify the presence of both these types, when functionality & implementation wise, these look quite similar. I would really appreciate if you could illustrate the differences between above item & action types by taking some hardware/platform as reference. > > > Thanks in advance, > Vivek Sharma >