From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jhs@mojatatu.com
Cc: john.fastabend@gmail.com, jiri@resnulli.us, amir@vadai.me,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v3 6/8] net: ixgbe: add minimal parser details for ixgbe
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:09:06 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160217.100906.816402468592090571.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56C4541A.5070508@mojatatu.com>
From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 06:06:02 -0500
> On 16-02-17 12:18 AM, John Fastabend wrote:
>> This adds an ixgbe data structure that is used to determine what
>> headers:fields can be matched and in what order they are supported.
>>
>> For hardware devices this can be a bit tricky because typically
>> only pre-programmed (firmware, ucode, rtl) parse graphs will be
>> supported and we don't yet have an interface to change these from
>> the OS. So its sort of a you get whatever your friendly vendor
>> provides affair at the moment.
>>
>> In the future we can add the get routines and set routines to
>> update this data structure. One interesting thing to note here
>> is the data structure here identifies ethernet, ip, and tcp
>> fields without having to hardcode them as enumerations or use
>> other identifiers.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
>
>
> should __u32 be u32? Also at some points you seem to interchangeably
> use unsigned int vs u32. I think most of unsigned ints should be u32.
Anything only kernel visible should be 'u32', whereas if the object is
exported via a uapi header file it should be '__u32'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-17 15:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-17 5:15 [net-next PATCH v3 0/8] tc offload for cls_u32 on ixgbe John Fastabend
2016-02-17 5:16 ` [net-next PATCH v3 1/8] net: rework ndo tc op to consume additional qdisc handle parameter John Fastabend
2016-02-17 10:42 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2016-02-17 5:16 ` [net-next PATCH v3 2/8] net: rework setup_tc ndo op to consume general tc operand John Fastabend
2016-02-17 10:42 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2016-02-17 5:17 ` [net-next PATCH v3 3/8] net: sched: add cls_u32 offload hooks for netdevs John Fastabend
2016-02-17 7:02 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-02-17 10:59 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2016-02-17 14:24 ` John Fastabend
2016-02-17 23:07 ` John Fastabend
2016-02-18 9:23 ` Amir Vadai"
2016-02-19 3:37 ` Simon Horman
2016-02-19 8:16 ` Or Gerlitz
2016-02-18 12:14 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2016-02-18 15:24 ` John Fastabend
2016-02-19 12:52 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2016-02-17 5:17 ` [net-next PATCH v3 4/8] net: add tc offload feature flag John Fastabend
2016-02-17 11:01 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2016-02-17 5:18 ` [net-next PATCH v3 5/8] net: tc: helper functions to query action types John Fastabend
2016-02-17 7:03 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-02-17 11:02 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2016-02-17 5:18 ` [net-next PATCH v3 6/8] net: ixgbe: add minimal parser details for ixgbe John Fastabend
2016-02-17 11:06 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2016-02-17 15:09 ` David Miller [this message]
2016-02-17 15:14 ` John Fastabend
2016-02-17 18:01 ` Rustad, Mark D
2016-02-17 22:34 ` John Fastabend
2016-02-17 5:18 ` [net-next PATCH v3 7/8] net: ixgbe: add support for tc_u32 offload John Fastabend
2016-02-17 11:17 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2016-02-17 11:42 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-02-17 11:47 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2016-02-17 14:25 ` John Fastabend
2016-02-17 5:19 ` [net-next PATCH v3 8/8] net: ixgbe: abort with cls u32 divisor groups greater than 1 John Fastabend
2016-02-17 14:48 ` [net-next PATCH v3 0/8] tc offload for cls_u32 on ixgbe David Miller
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