From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/16] software parser for packet type Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 18:24:22 +0200 Message-ID: <23066391.YNbyovRjps@xps13> References: <1472481335-21226-1-git-send-email-olivier.matz@6wind.com> <1475483937-21696-1-git-send-email-olivier.matz@6wind.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org, cunming.liang@intel.com, john.mcnamara@intel.com, andrey.chilikin@intel.com, konstantin.ananyev@intel.com To: Olivier Matz Return-path: Received: from mail-lf0-f52.google.com (mail-lf0-f52.google.com [209.85.215.52]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC8525680 for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2016 18:24:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-lf0-f52.google.com with SMTP id x79so50339081lff.0 for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2016 09:24:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1475483937-21696-1-git-send-email-olivier.matz@6wind.com> 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" 2016-10-03 10:38, Olivier Matz: > This patchset introduces a software packet type parser. This > feature is targeted for v16.11. > > The goal here is to provide a reference implementation for packet type > parsing. This function will be used by testpmd to compare its result > with the value given by the hardware. > > It will also be useful when implementing Rx offload support in virtio > pmd. Indeed, the virtio protocol gives the csum start and offset, but > it does not give the L4 protocol nor it tells if the checksum is > relevant for inner or outer. This information has to be known to > properly set the ol_flags in mbuf. Applied, thanks