[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/5] examples/l3fwd: add parse-ptype option

Tan, Jianfeng jianfeng.tan at intel.com
Thu Dec 8 08:40:05 CET 2016


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yuanhan Liu [mailto:yuanhan.liu at linux.intel.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 8, 2016 2:59 PM
> To: Tan, Jianfeng
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; stephen at networkplumber.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] examples/l3fwd: add parse-ptype option
> 
> On Sun, Dec 04, 2016 at 12:18:22AM +0000, Jianfeng Tan wrote:
> > To support those devices that do not provide packet type info when
> > receiving packets, add a new option, --parse-ptype, to analyze
> > packet type in the Rx callback.
> 
> A quick question: does this patch have anything to do with the virtio
> interrupt enabling?

Yes, it does as this example is used to test the functionality. But like l3fwd example, this example depends on the ptypes to forward packets. So we need to add software parser to parse ptypes like l3fwd example.

Thanks,
Jianfeng

> 
> 	--yliu


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