[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce ABI change for struct rte_eth_tunnel_flow

Liu, Jijiang jijiang.liu at intel.com
Tue Dec 15 02:17:55 CET 2015



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 14, 2015 11:04 PM
> To: Liu, Jijiang
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce ABI change for struct
> rte_eth_tunnel_flow
> 
> 2015-12-09 13:37, Jijiang Liu:
> > The struct 'rte_eth_tunnel_flow' is only used by struct
> > 'rte_eth_fdir_flow' now, but its name is generic, and I plan to extend new
> fileds like below to support generic configuration for tunneling packet.
> 
> You have not explained what the changes are for.
> So it's really difficult to have an opinion.
> Please describe an use case.
For i40e flow director, it can use more fields such as inner destination IP, inner MAC outer destination MAC and outer destination IP to do classification for tunneling packet.
Otherwise, we also can use this structure to store tunnel flow configuration, not just for classification.

> PS: "filed" -> "field"



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