[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] mbuf: new flag when Vlan is stripped

[Olivier Matz]

Hi,

On 05/27/2016 04:33 PM, Olivier Matz wrote:
> The behavior of PKT_RX_VLAN_PKT was not very well defined, resulting in
> PMDs not advertising the same flags in similar conditions.
> 
> Following discussion in [1], introduce 2 new flags PKT_RX_VLAN_STRIPPED
> and PKT_RX_QINQ_STRIPPED that are better defined:
> 
>   PKT_RX_VLAN_STRIPPED: a vlan has been stripped by the hardware and its
>   tci is saved in mbuf->vlan_tci. This can only happen if vlan stripping
>   is enabled in the RX configuration of the PMD.
> 
> For now, the old flag PKT_RX_VLAN_PKT is kept but marked as deprecated.
> It should be removed from applications and PMDs in a future revision.
> 
> This patch also updates the drivers. For PKT_RX_VLAN_PKT:
> 
> - e1000, enic, i40e, mlx5, nfp, vmxnet3: done, PKT_RX_VLAN_PKT already
>   had the same meaning than PKT_RX_VLAN_STRIPPED, minor update is
>   required.
> - fm10k: done, PKT_RX_VLAN_PKT already had the same meaning than
>   PKT_RX_VLAN_STRIPPED, and vlan stripping is always enabled on fm10k.
> - ixgbe: modification done (vector and normal), the old flag was set
>   when a vlan was recognized, even if vlan stripping was disabled.
> - the other drivers do not support vlan stripping.
> 
> For PKT_RX_QINQ_PKT, it was only supported on i40e, and the behavior was
> already correct, so we can reuse the same bit value for
> PKT_RX_QINQ_STRIPPED.
> 
> [1] http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-April/037837.html,
> 
> Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz at 6wind.com>

Any comment about this patch?