[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/2] ethdev: announce clarification of implicit filter by port

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Sat Aug 7 23:10:58 CEST 2021


> > Transfer flow rules may be applied to traffic entering switch from
> > many sources. There are flow API pattern items which allow to specify
> > ingress port match criteria explicitly, but it is not documented
> > if ethdev port used to create flow rule adds any implicit match
> > criteria and how it coexists with explicit ones.
> >
> > These aspects should be documented and drivers and applications
> > which use it in a a different way must be fixed.
> nit! "in a different way..."
> otherwise
> 
> Acked-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde at broadcom.com>
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko at oktetlabs.ru>
> > Acked-by: Ori Kam <orika at nvidia.com>

+1 for clarification
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>

Applied, thanks.




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