[dpdk-dev] Creation of ACL context with multiple tries

[Ananyev, Konstantin]

Hi Vartha,
 
> Hi All,
> Need your inputs on the following queries on ACL contexts.
> 
> 1. Has anyone tried creating ACL context with multiple tries?
> 2. The document/code mentioned that we can have the maximum of 8 tries(RTE_ACL_MAX_TRIES) per ACL context.
>      What is the use case for having more than single trie?

User can't directly control number of tries per context and/or contents of each trie at build time.
It is decided by build time by librte_acl internal logic and depends from the rule set and build parameters.
Please refer to: http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/prog_guide/packet_classif_access_ctrl.html
Section 23.1.2. RT memory size limit.

> 3. If we can create ACL context using multiple tries, then is it possible to have trie per category in ACL context?
>     Meaning I want to create a single ACL context(that had both ipv4 and ipv6 rules)  which  have 2 tries with one for ipv4 rules and
> another one for ipv6 rules.

No, that's no possible with current implementation.
Konstantin


> Thanks in Advance.
> 
> Thanks
> Vartha