[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ethdev: increase flow type limit from 32 to 64

[Adrien Mazarguil]

Hi Kirill,

On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 12:29:47PM +0000, Kirill Rybalchenko wrote:
> Increase the internal limit for flow types from 32 to 64
> to support future flow type extensions.
> Change type of variables from uint32_t[] to uint64_t[]:
>   rte_eth_fdir_info.flow_types_mask
>   rte_eth_hash_global_conf.sym_hash_enable_mask
>   rte_eth_hash_global_conf.valid_bit_mask
> 
> This modification affects the following components:
>   net/i40e
>   net/enic
>   net/mlx5
>   net/ixgbe
>   app/testpmd
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kirill Rybalchenko <kirill.rybalchenko at intel.com>

Can you elaborate a bit on the need for these changes?
Have you considered implementing those future extensions through rte_flow
instead?

-- 
Adrien Mazarguil
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