From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] ethdev: add flow API to expand RSS flows Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 16:26:53 +0200 Message-ID: <58851225.XPqQcdYWC5@xps> References: <3c31112367e8d44d1568afbf52de20c6c9ff0c9c.1528187101.git.nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com> <15e22f72e9b4c56e79809c413ce3001e4f6067d8.1529565844.git.nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Nelio Laranjeiro To: Adrien Mazarguil Return-path: Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com (out2-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FEFC1BED0 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2018 16:26:56 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <15e22f72e9b4c56e79809c413ce3001e4f6067d8.1529565844.git.nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com> List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Adrien, would you like to review this patch please? 21/06/2018 09:25, Nelio Laranjeiro: > Introduce an helper for PMD to expand easily flows items list with RSS > action into multiple flow items lists with priority information. > > For instance a user items list being "eth / end" with rss action types > "ipv4-udp ipv6-udp end" needs to be expanded into three items lists: > > - eth > - eth / ipv4 / udp > - eth / ipv6 / udp > > to match the user request. Some drivers are unable to reach such > request without this expansion, this API is there to help those. > Only PMD should use such API for their internal cooking, the application > will still handle a single flow. > > Signed-off-by: Nelio Laranjeiro