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

Ferruh Yigit ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Mon Oct 5 15:10:25 CEST 2020


On 10/5/2020 1:44 PM, Shiri Kuzin wrote:
> Hi Ferruh,
> Due to many changes in ethdev in this release and since this feature has lower priority, it was decided to postpone it for now.
> We will consider having it as part of 21.02 release, I will send the new version then.
> 

Hi Shiri,

Thanks for the heads up. Please update the patchwork status accordingly.

Thanks,
ferruh

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, October 1, 2020 7:26 PM
>> To: Shiri Kuzin <shirik at nvidia.com>; dev at dpdk.org
>> Cc: Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at nvidia.com>; NBU-Contact-Adrien
>> Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil at 6wind.com>; Raslan Darawsheh
>> <rasland at nvidia.com>
>> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC v2] ethdev: introduce GENEVE header
>> extension item
>>
>> 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:
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