[dpdk-dev] [RFC v2] ethdev: introduce GENEVE header extension item

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 9/3/2020 8:39 AM, Shiri Kuzin wrote:
> The Geneve tunneling protocol is designed to allow
> the user to specify some data context on the packet.
> The header extension options is the mean intended
> to present the user data. These ones are implemented
> in TLV (Type-Length-Value) fashion, in order to
> support these Geneve protocol feature we will
> introduce the new item “rte_flow_item_geneve_option”
> 
> The support for new item will be added to testpmd
> and include values and masks for the fields:
> - class
> - type
> - data length
> - data itself
> 
> The usage example:
> 
> "flow create 0 ingress pattern ipv4 / udp /
> geneve / geneve_opt class is 102 type is 80
> type mask ff data is 10002 data mask is
> 7fffffff / end actions drop / end "
> 
> New item will be added to testpmd to support
> raw encap/decap action.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shiri Kuzin <shirik at nvidia.com>

Hi Shiri,

Will there be a new version of the patch addressing the comments to previous 
version:
http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/MN2PR12MB42860D5ECF69BD6C78CECBF6D6200@MN2PR12MB4286.namprd12.prod.outlook.com/