[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/2] ethdev: add tunnel and port RSS offload types

[Jerin Jacob]

On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 07:59:33PM +0530, Jerin Jacob wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 04:04:13PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 2016-03-31 02:21, Jerin Jacob:
> > > - added VXLAN, GENEVE and NVGRE tunnel flow types
> > > - added PORT flow type for accounting physical/virtual
> > > port or channel number in flow creation
> >
> > These API change could be considered for 16.07 if they are motivated
> > by any use. Please bring some use cases, thanks.
> 
> The use case is to spray the packets to multiple queues using RSS on
> Tunnel type packets.
> 
> Considering the case if RSS hash does not account inner packet in tunnel
> case, the packet always to go a particular queue as mostly likely
> outer header remains same in tunnel packets and RSS spread
> will not be achieved in tunnel packets case.
> 
> This feature is part of the RSS capability of ThunderX
> NIC HW. Which, we are planning to upstream on next release.
> 
> I thought of pushing the common code changes first.

Ping

Can we merge this changeset if their are no concerns?
and their is a real consumer for this,
http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-June/041374.html

Jerin