From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: kaara.satwik@chelsio.com,
Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, nirranjan@chelsio.com, ferruh.yigit@intel.com,
orika@mellanox.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/9] net/cxgbe: updates for rte_flow support
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 13:09:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18214127.sIn9rWBj0N@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1583906144.git.kaara.satwik@chelsio.com>
11/03/2020 10:05, Rahul Lakkireddy:
> From: Karra Satwik <kaara.satwik@chelsio.com>
>
> This series of patches contain rte_flow support for matching
> Q-in-Q VLAN, IP TOS, PF, and VF fields. Also, adds Destination
> MAC rewrite and Source MAC rewrite actions.
>
> Apart from the 4-tuple (IP src/dst addresses and TCP/UDP src/dst
> port addresses), there are only 40-bits available to match other
> fields in packet headers. Currently, the combination of packet
> header fields to match are configured via filterMode for LETCAM
> filters and filterMask for HASH filters in firmware config files
> (t5/t6-config.txt). Adapter needs to be reflashed with new firmware
> config file everytime the combinations need to be changed. To avoid
> this, a new firmware API is available to dynamically change the
> combination before completing full adapter initialization. So, 2
> new devargs filtermode and filtermask are added to dynamically
> select the combinations during runtime.
Please, could you explain why you are using devargs for flow matching,
instead of using the common and generic rte_flow API?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-18 12:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-11 9:05 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/9] net/cxgbe: updates for rte_flow support Rahul Lakkireddy
2020-03-11 9:05 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/9] net/cxgbe: add rte_flow support for matching Q-in-Q VLAN Rahul Lakkireddy
2020-03-11 9:05 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/9] net/cxgbe: add rte_flow support for matching IP TOS Rahul Lakkireddy
2020-03-11 9:05 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/9] net/cxgbe: add rte_flow support for matching all packets on PF Rahul Lakkireddy
2020-03-11 9:05 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/9] net/cxgbe: add rte_flow support for matching all packets on VF Rahul Lakkireddy
2020-03-11 9:05 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/9] net/cxgbe: add rte_flow support for overwriting destination MAC Rahul Lakkireddy
2020-03-11 9:05 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 6/9] net/cxgbe: add Source MAC Table (SMT) support Rahul Lakkireddy
2020-03-11 9:05 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 7/9] net/cxgbe: add rte_flow support for Source MAC Rewrite Rahul Lakkireddy
2020-03-11 9:05 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 8/9] net/cxgbe: use firmware API for validating filter spec Rahul Lakkireddy
2020-03-11 9:05 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 9/9] net/cxgbe: add devargs to control filtermode and filtermask values Rahul Lakkireddy
2020-03-11 13:11 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/9] net/cxgbe: updates for rte_flow support Ferruh Yigit
2020-03-18 12:09 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2020-03-18 13:06 ` Rahul Lakkireddy
2020-03-18 15:07 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-03-19 7:58 ` Rahul Lakkireddy
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