From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga04.intel.com (mga04.intel.com [192.55.52.120]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3E404C73 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2018 16:06:54 +0200 (CEST) X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from fmsmga006.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.20]) by fmsmga104.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 28 Mar 2018 07:06:53 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.48,371,1517904000"; d="scan'208";a="215472699" Received: from fyigit-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.237.221.63]) ([10.237.221.63]) by fmsmga006.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 28 Mar 2018 07:06:52 -0700 To: Rahul Lakkireddy , Shahaf Shuler Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" , Kumar A S , Nirranjan Kirubaharan , Indranil Choudhury References: <20180327070155.GA17402@chelsio.com> <20180328073933.GA19600@chelsio.com> <20180328092911.GA19730@chelsio.com> From: Ferruh Yigit Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Autocrypt: addr=ferruh.yigit@intel.com; keydata= xsFNBFXZCFABEADCujshBOAaqPZpwShdkzkyGpJ15lmxiSr3jVMqOtQS/sB3FYLT0/d3+bvy qbL9YnlbPyRvZfnP3pXiKwkRoR1RJwEo2BOf6hxdzTmLRtGtwWzI9MwrUPj6n/ldiD58VAGQ +iR1I/z9UBUN/ZMksElA2D7Jgg7vZ78iKwNnd+vLBD6I61kVrZ45Vjo3r+pPOByUBXOUlxp9 GWEKKIrJ4eogqkVNSixN16VYK7xR+5OUkBYUO+sE6etSxCr7BahMPKxH+XPlZZjKrxciaWQb +dElz3Ab4Opl+ZT/bK2huX+W+NJBEBVzjTkhjSTjcyRdxvS1gwWRuXqAml/sh+KQjPV1PPHF YK5LcqLkle+OKTCa82OvUb7cr+ALxATIZXQkgmn+zFT8UzSS3aiBBohg3BtbTIWy51jNlYdy ezUZ4UxKSsFuUTPt+JjHQBvF7WKbmNGS3fCid5Iag4tWOfZoqiCNzxApkVugltxoc6rG2TyX CmI2rP0mQ0GOsGXA3+3c1MCdQFzdIn/5tLBZyKy4F54UFo35eOX8/g7OaE+xrgY/4bZjpxC1 1pd66AAtKb3aNXpHvIfkVV6NYloo52H+FUE5ZDPNCGD0/btFGPWmWRmkPybzColTy7fmPaGz cBcEEqHK4T0aY4UJmE7Ylvg255Kz7s6wGZe6IR3N0cKNv++O7QARAQABzSVGZXJydWggWWln aXQgPGZlcnJ1aC55aWdpdEBpbnRlbC5jb20+wsF+BBMBAgAoAhsDBgsJCAcDAgYVCAIJCgsE FgIDAQIeAQIXgAUCWZR1xgUJB33UawAKCRD5M+tD3xNhH3TID/wNjq1doFXg49WaM7ZXez/1 qwj7U6FQ2eUhlEPX8dXc52cu+iQk8/mssXQtANEx+jndxfvlkikBNgI+mr3m/ho54uQWFZd7 Bv0DVVkLHNkLWK6tT6iISdCgXrQuOv8y5rucEGkJ8dDPsp8Mqr4sBjavRBpczphoa3miKusA HzUEo0SYuHUPmBlbmvKv4PkA5quWtXpkgV2HZ1bW9X0dQkAqEVioAPm5Q6pXJODfV8kaZUtJ z4swEtBnK9XAWm2HccF7KmFh0vv+Zh9lEMnEFt7UPXngY6+xCTo6xV1IVc8EZfDjOip8I4h2 ALMaLgrZwA9VVmHCVOrnO3UZqfGehrwz4O3sUrcmIzxjk3gfBmVRCBfuWGchSpWtZ99U6V1a OEuG+ymyjBDtyymW+KSvmCBl2gIxZHvZFvSRRdDObkkUIskSJ95f/6HBOESRZBOiV9GEAhC5 gI9OAKKF8HQaN/r5KJrkzscjQcjIdV1jXhTkfQ4wH3GJiVM5JxsKsEjjRw7yfSJo2GBEGqMe KMwMLWg4f1DgVtjOuGf10isu+29MvapW2IxKYaHcVc2vHfWbDi2AvBj/VAzKILWbTEgI1VL5 zKpo5p6X2O55oEyeflDiAzrUfvLqB4vmTyqXtW6PdLyZC7kXIzmNu6EBVx9oSgy3CADw5saN 0La9OoCAc7Tn+s7BTQRX1ky+ARAApzQNvXvE2q1LAS+Z+ni2R13Bb1cDS1ZYq1jgpR13+OKN ipzd8MPngRJilXxBaPTErhgzR0vGcNTYhjGMSyFIHVOoBq1VbP1a0Fi/NqWzJOowo/fDfgVy K4vuitc/gCJs+2se4hdZA4EQJxVlNM51lgYDNpjPGIA43MX15OLAip73+ho6NPBMuc5qse3X pAClNhBKfENRCWN428pi3WVkT+ABRTE0taxjJNP7bb+9TQYNRqGwnGzX5/XISv44asWIQCaq vOkXSUJLd//cdVNTqtL1wreCVVR5pMXj7VIrlk07fmmJVALCmGbFr53BMb8O+8dgK2A5mitM n44d+8KdJWOwziRxcaMk/LclmZS3Iv1TERtiWt98Y9AjeAtcgYPkA3ld0BcUKONogP8pHVz1 Ed3s5rDQ91yr1S0wuAzW91fxGUO4wY+uPmxCtFVuBgd9VT9NAKTUL0qHM7CDgCnZPe0TW6Zj 8OqtdCCyAfvU9cW5xWM7Icxhde6AtPxhDSBwE8fL2ZmrDmaA4jmUKXp3i4JxRPSX84S08b+s DWXHPxy10UFU5A7EK/BEbZAKBwn9ROfm+WK+6X5xOGLoRE++OqNuUudxC1GDyLOPaqCbBCS9 +P6HsTHzxsjyJa27n4jcrcuY3P9TEcFJYSZSeSDh8mVGvugi0exnSJrrBZDyVCcAEQEAAcLB ZQQYAQIADwIbDAUCWZR1ZwUJA59cIQAKCRD5M+tD3xNhH5b+D/9XG44Ci6STdcA5RO/ur05J EE3Ux1DCHZ5V7vNAtX/8Wg4l4GZfweauXwuJ1w7Sp7fklwcNC6wsceI+EmNjGMqfIaukGetG +jBGqsQ7moOZodfXUoCK98gblKgt/BPYMVidzlGC8Q/+lZg1+o29sPnwImW+MXt/Z5az/Z17 Qc265g+p5cqJHzq6bpQdnF7Fu6btKU/kv6wJghENvgMXBuyThqsyFReJWFh2wfaKyuix3Zyj ccq7/blkhzIKmtFWgDcgaSc2UAuJU+x9nuYjihW6WobpKP/nlUDu3BIsbIq09UEke+uE/QK+ FJ8PTJkAsXOf1Bc2C0XbW4Y2hf103+YY6L8weUCBsWC5VH5VtVmeuh26ENURclwfeXhWQ9Og 77yzpTXWr5g1Z0oLpYpWPv745J4bE7pv+dzxOrFdM1xNkzY2pvXph/A8OjxZNQklDkHQ7PIB Lki5L2F4XkEOddUUQchJwzMqTPsggPDmGjgLZrqgO+s4ECZK5+nLD3HEpAbPa3JLDaScy+90 Nu1lAqPUHSnP3vYZVw85ZYm6UCxHE4VLMnnJsN09ZhsOSVR+GyP5Nyw9rT1V3lcsuH7M5Naa 2Xobn9m7l9bRCD/Ji8kG15eV1WTxx1HXVQGjdUYDI7UwegBNbwMLh17XDy+3sn/6SgcqtECA Q6pZKA2mTQxEKA== Message-ID: <9e5a6116-0c68-956d-2596-3182354cbae1@intel.com> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 15:06:51 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180328092911.GA19730@chelsio.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/13] cxgbe: add CXGBE VF PMD and updates 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: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 14:06:55 -0000 On 3/28/2018 10:29 AM, Rahul Lakkireddy wrote: > On Wednesday, March 03/28/18, 2018 at 14:00:58 +0530, Shahaf Shuler wrote: >> Wednesday, March 28, 2018 10:40 AM, Rahul Lakkireddy: >>> On Wednesday, March 03/28/18, 2018 at 10:19:17 +0530, Shahaf Shuler >>>> >>>> What exactly is the offload you try to expose? To strip the inner VLAN while >>> keeping the outer one? >>>> >>> >>> Sorry about that, I should have provided more details on this earlier. >>> Chelsio hardware supports below for double-vlans: >>> 1) Dropping Outer VLAN in hw; inner vlan is stripped and available as packet >>> metadata. >> >> So this is basically the DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_QINQ_STRIP with limitation from your device you cannot return the outer vlan in the packet metadata >> > > Since this is specific to Chelsio devices, is it better handled by > devargs approach instead? We will respin this particular patch > separately. > > Hi Ferruh, > Should we re-post the entire series minus this particular patch? No new version required. I will not merge patch 13/13. Also expecting an incremental documentation patch to update device information. > >>> 2) Preserving Outer VLAN so, Outer VLAN is stripped and available as packet >>> metadata. Inner VLAN is available as part of packet itself. >> >> And this one is the regular DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_VLAN_STRIP >> >>> >>> So, the configurability here is with respect to Outer VLAN and subsequently >>> what is available as part of packet metadata (outer or inner vlan). Inner >>> VLAN gets retained in both cases. However, based on how Outer VLAN is >>> configured, Inner VLAN will be available either as packet metadata or as part >>> of packet itself. >>> >>> We are not very sure if DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_QINQ_STRIP could be used here. >>> If it holds the same meaning then we will use the same. >> >> Yeah , we are missing good documentation of what each offload means. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Rahul