Hi Mattias,

Maybe an example helps explain this. Here is an example where the CRC hash function is registered in the DPDK pipeline: http://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tree/lib/pipeline/rte_swx_pipeline.c?id=203dcc9cfe4151518bb5a5c59ee22a754e649e35#n10115. We need something similar to this for the XOR hash. This means we need to have the XOR hash function implemented somewhere first before we could register it.

Thanks,

Bili

On Wed, Nov 9, 2022 at 2:08 PM Mattias Rönnblom <hofors@lysator.liu.se> wrote:

On 2022-11-07 19:57, Bili Dong wrote:
> Dear DPDK devs,
>
> We are using DPDK as the backend target of a P4 pipeline
> (https://github.com/p4lang/p4-dpdk-target
> <https://github.com/p4lang/p4-dpdk-target>). A recent issue we are
> trying to solve is to support a naive XOR hash (something like this
> <https://github.com/p4lang/behavioral-model/blob/b7a5c105e5c21414ac07f7f2879b45c000ab2aa4/src/bm_sim/calculations.cpp#L380-L399>) in this pipeline. This requires an XOR hash implementation in DPDK.I have the following questions:

Why would it *require* an xor hash function in DPDK?

>
> 1. Is there already an XOR hash implementation in DPDK? I haven't found
> it myself, but I could have missed it.
> 2. If it doesn't exist, I'm willing to contribute one, as the
> implementation is quite straightforward. But I might need your help
> on where to put the code, as I'm not that familiar with the code
> organization.
>
> Any help would be appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
> Bili
>