[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 7/7]app/testpmd: add commands and config functions for i40e flow director support

Venkatesan, Venky venky.venkatesan at intel.com
Wed Aug 27 18:54:52 CEST 2014


On 8/27/2014 7:35 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> Hi Jingjing,
>
> 2014-08-27 10:13, Jingjing Wu:
>> add structure definition to construct programming packet.
> What is a "programming packet"?
>
>> +#ifdef RTE_LIBRTE_I40E_PMD
>> +			"i40e_flow_director_filter (port_id) (add|del)"
>> +			" flow (ip4|ip6) src (src_ip_address) dst (dst_ip_address)"
>> +			" flexwords (flexwords_value) (drop|fwd)"
>> +			" queue (queue_id) fd_id (fd_id_value)\n"
>> +			"    Add/Del a IP type flow director filter for i40e NIC.\n\n"
>> +
>> +			"i40e_flow_director_filter (port_id) (add|del)"
>> +			" flow (udp4|tcp4|udp6|tcp6)"
>> +			" src (src_ip_address) (src_port)"
>> +			" dst (dst_ip_address) (dst_port)"
>> +			" flexwords (flexwords_value) (drop|fwd)"
>> +			" queue (queue_id) fd_id (fd_id_value)\n"
>> +			"    Add/Del a UDP/TCP type flow director filter for i40e NIC.\n\n"
>> +
>> +			"i40e_flush_flow_diretor (port_id)\n"
>> +			"    Flush all flow director entries of a device on i40e NIC.\n\n"
>> +#endif /* RTE_LIBRTE_I40E_PMD */
> I'd really like to stop seeing this kind of thing.
> We cannot add some ifdef for each PMD in generic code.
>
> I stopped reading after that.
>
> Sorry, I don't want to be rude but my feeling is that adding such feature
> with global picture in mind is not easy. I know you want to offer all i40e
> capabilities but you should think at future evolutions and how other drivers
> will be integrated with yours.
>
> Thanks
Second that. Any PMD-specifics need to be contained within the PMD 
itself, and not in generic code. Please rework this.
-Venky



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