From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 5/6] enicpmd: DPDK-ENIC PMD interface Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 10:41:54 +0100 Message-ID: <2166065.bfoVCtWc4v@xps13> References: <1416936405-25333-1-git-send-email-ssujith@cisco.com> <9BB6961774997848B5B42BEC655768F8B6647D@SHSMSX104.ccr.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org, "Prasad Rao \(prrao\)" To: "Sujith Sankar (ssujith)" Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org Sender: "dev" 2014-12-30 04:45, Sujith Sankar: > On 29/12/14 1:45 pm, "Wu, Jingjing" wrote: > >I found that in perfect fdir is also supported in enic driver. > > > >During the R1.8 development, we defined a new dev_ops call filter_ctrl, > >which can be used to control kinds of filters, flow director is included > >too. Which is mentioned in > >http://www.dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2014-September/005179.html . > >In R1.8, filter_ctrl is only used by i40e driver. And we also planned use > >it in the existing ixgbe/e1000 driver in the next days. The old APIs such > >as fdir_add_perfect_filter, fdir_remove_perfect_filter can be replaced > >then. > > Hi Jingjing, > Thanks for the info and the link. I shall take a look at it. > It looks like bringing in one interface for all filter related operations. > I believe ENIC should also move to it. Yes please. It is planned to remove or deprecate old flow director API. -- Thomas