From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] lpm: increase number of next hops for lpm (ipv4) Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 09:33:05 -0700 Message-ID: <20151023093305.2e971298@xeon-e3> References: <1445608311-8092-1-git-send-email-michalx.k.jastrzebski@intel.com> <20151023162033.GA10036@mhcomputing.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org To: Matthew Hall Return-path: Received: from mail-pa0-f50.google.com (mail-pa0-f50.google.com [209.85.220.50]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C44AE5A32 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 18:32:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: by pasz6 with SMTP id z6so122411623pas.2 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 09:32:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20151023162033.GA10036@mhcomputing.net> List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 09:20:33 -0700 Matthew Hall wrote: > On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 03:51:48PM +0200, Michal Jastrzebski wrote: > > From: Michal Kobylinski > > > > The current DPDK implementation for LPM for IPv4 and IPv6 limits the > > number of next hops to 256, as the next hop ID is an 8-bit long field. > > Proposed extension increase number of next hops for IPv4 to 2^24 and > > also allows 32-bits read/write operations. > > > > This patchset requires additional change to rte_table library to meet > > ABI compatibility requirements. A v2 will be sent next week. > > I also have a patchset for this. > > I will send it out as well so we could compare. > > Matthew. Could you consider rolling in the Brocade/Vyatta changes to LPM structure as well. Would prefer only one ABI change