[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/3] ethdev: add IP address and TCP/UDP port rewrite actions to flow API

Ferruh Yigit ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Tue Oct 9 15:04:39 CEST 2018


On 10/9/2018 9:44 AM, Rahul Lakkireddy wrote:
> This series of patches add support for actions:
> - SET_IPV4_SRC - set a new IPv4 source address.
> - SET_IPV4_DST - set a new IPv4 destination address.
> - SET_IPV6_SRC - set a new IPv6 source address.
> - SET_IPV6_DST - set a new IPv6 destination address.
> - SET_TP_SRC - set a new TCP/UDP source port number.
> - SET_TP_DST - set a new TCP/UDP destination port number.
> 
> These actions are useful in Network Address Translation use case
> to edit IP address and TCP/UDP port numbers before switching
> the packets out to the destination device port.
> 
> Patch 1 adds support for IP address rewrite to rte_flow and testpmd.
> 
> Patch 2 adds support for TCP/UDP port rewrite to rte_flow and testpmd.
> 
> Patch 3 shows CXGBE PMD example to offload these actions to hardware.
> 
> Feedback and suggestions will be much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Rahul
> 
> RFC v1: http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2018-June/104913.html
> RFC v2: http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2018-August/109672.html
> 
> ---
> v3:
> - Replaced uint32_t with rte_be32_t to reflect the byte order of
>   the new IPv4 addresses to rewrite.
> - Replaced uint16_t with rte_be16_t to reflect the byte order of
>   the new TCP/UDP port addresses to rewrite.
> 
> v2:
> - Rebased to tip.
> - Removed adding actions to app/test-pmd/config.c, to sync with
>   rte_flow_conv() changes.
> 
> v1 changes since RFC v2:
> - Updated comments, help messages, and doc to indicate that IP/TCP/UDP
>   of the outermost headers are modified.
> - Updated comments and doc to indicate that a corresponding valid flow
>   pattern item must be specified to offload corresponding header rewrite
>   actions.
> - Re-based CXGBE PMD changes in patch 3 to tip.
> - Updated all instances of fw_filter_wr to new fw_filter2_wr and removed
>   fw_filter_wr.
> - Ensure correct ULP type is set when offloading NAT actions.
> - Returning appropriate RTE_FLOW_ERROR_TYPE_ACTION error if a corresponding
>   valid flow pattern item is not found.
> - Updated release notes.
> 
> 
> Rahul Lakkireddy (3):
>   ethdev: add flow api actions to modify IP addresses
>   ethdev: add flow api actions to modify TCP/UDP port numbers
>   net/cxgbe: add flow actions to modify IP and TCP/UDP port address

Series applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.

(modification mentioned on v3 3/3 has been applied while merging)


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