Re: [dpdk-dev] ACL lookup doesn't work for some schemes

[Stevan Markovic <smarkovic@prolexic.com>]

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 4:56 AM, Ananyev, Konstantin <
konstantin.ananyev@intel.com> wrote:

> Yes, right now, libtre_acl to work correctly first field has to be 1B long
> and all subsequent grouped into sets of 4 consecutive bytes.
> I thought we have it documented into our PG, ACL section:
> http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/prog_guide/packet_classif_access_ctrl.html
> Though re-reading it again:
> "For performance reasons, the inner loop of the search function is
> unrolled to process four input bytes at a time. This requires the input to
> be grouped into sets of 4 consecutive bytes. The loop processes the first
> input byte as part of the setup and then subsequent bytes must be in groups
> of 4 consecutive bytes."
> It probably not very clear and need to be explained in more details.
> Will update the doc.
>
> Konstantin
>
>
While improving API documentation would be great, enforcing these
constraints on user defined fields in rte_acl_build(?) also (return an
error if constraints are not met) would be even better.

Stevan