[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6] net/iavf: support flex desc metadata extraction

[Zhang, Qi Z]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guo, Jia <jia.guo at intel.com>
> Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2020 10:09 AM
> To: Wu, Jingjing <jingjing.wu at intel.com>; Zhang, Qi Z <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>;
> Xing, Beilei <beilei.xing at intel.com>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Wang, Haiyue <haiyue.wang at intel.com>; Guo, Jia
> <jia.guo at intel.com>
> Subject: [PATCH v6] net/iavf: support flex desc metadata extraction
> 
> Enable metadata extraction for flexible descriptors in AVF, that would allow
> network function directly get metadata without additional parsing which
> would reduce the CPU cost for VFs. The enabling metadata extractions involve
> the metadata of VLAN/IPv4/IPv6/IPv6-FLOW/TCP/MPLS flexible descriptors,
> and the VF could negotiate the capability of the flexible descriptor with PF and
> correspondingly configure the specific offload at receiving queues.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Guo <jia.guo at intel.com>
> Acked-by: Haiyue Wang <haiyue.wang at intel.com>

Applied to dpdk-next-net-intel.

Thanks
Qi