On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 3:10 AM Ajit Khaparde wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 8:56 AM Ivan Malov wrote: > > > > Provide an API to let the application control the NIC's ability > > to deliver specific kinds of per-packet metadata to the PMD. > > > > Checks for the NIC's ability to set these kinds of metadata > > in the first place (support for the flow actions) belong in > > flow API responsibility domain (flow validate mechanism). > > This topic is out of scope of the new API in question. > > > > The PMD's ability to deliver received metadata to the user > > by virtue of mbuf fields should be covered by mbuf library. > > It is also out of scope of the new API in question. > > > > Signed-off-by: Ivan Malov > > Reviewed-by: Andrew Rybchenko > > Reviewed-by: Andy Moreton > > Acked-by: Ray Kinsella > > Acked-by: Jerin Jacob > > Acked-by: Ajit Khaparde Acked-by: Somnath Kotur