[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] net/ice: refactor the protocol extraction design

[Zhang, Qi Z]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wang, Haiyue <haiyue.wang at intel.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 26, 2020 2:55 PM
> To: dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: Yigit, Ferruh <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>; Guo, Jia <jia.guo at intel.com>;
> Zhang, Qi Z <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>; Chen, Zhaoyan
> <zhaoyan.chen at intel.com>; Wang, Haiyue <haiyue.wang at intel.com>; Yang,
> Qiming <qiming.yang at intel.com>; Ray Kinsella <mdr at ashroe.eu>; Neil
> Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com>
> Subject: [PATCH v3] net/ice: refactor the protocol extraction design
> 
> Change the protocol extraction dynamic mbuf usage from register API to
> lookup API, so the application can decide to read the metadata or not at the
> run time, in other words, PMD will check this at Rx queue start time.
> 
> This design makes the API simple now: it just needs to export the name string,
> not the whole dynamic mbuf data objects.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Haiyue Wang <haiyue.wang at intel.com>

Acked-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>

Applied to dpdk-next-net-intel.

Thanks
Qi