[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/3] ixgbe: Add L2 Ethertype, SYN and Five tuple queue filters

Thomas Monjalon thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Wed May 28 01:09:47 CEST 2014


Hi Vladimir,

Seems like hardware filtering becomes useful these days :)

2014-05-19 19:51, Vladimir Medvedkin:
> This patchset adds in addition to the Flow Director filters L2 Ethertype,
> SYN and Five tuple queue filters to route packets according to ethertype,
> l4 proto, source/destination ip/ports pool and presence of SYN flag in TCP
> packet. Unlike http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2014-May/002512.html this
> gives capability to work with pools. This patch functionality can be merged
> with the patch above.

2 comments:

1) Do you have a good confidence that this new API is generic enough to be 
used by other NICs than ixgbe?

2) Could you try to check your patches with the kernel script checkpatch.pl, 
please?

Thanks
-- 
Thomas


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