[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v9 0/2] Support meter policy API

Jiawei(Jonny) Wang jiaweiw at nvidia.com
Tue Apr 20 16:08:36 CEST 2021


Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2021 7:37 PM
> To: Jiawei(Jonny) Wang <jiaweiw at nvidia.com>; Matan Azrad
> <matan at nvidia.com>; Ori Kam <orika at nvidia.com>; Slava Ovsiienko
> <viacheslavo at nvidia.com>; Shahaf Shuler <shahafs at nvidia.com>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon
> <thomas at monjalon.net>; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland at nvidia.com>; Roni
> Bar Yanai <roniba at nvidia.com>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v9 0/2] Support meter policy API
> 
> On 4/19/2021 5:08 PM, Jiawei Wang wrote:
> > Currently, the flow meter policy does not support multiple actions per
> > color; also the allowed action types per color are very limited.
> > In addition, the policy cannot be pre-defined.
> >
> > Due to the growing in flow actions offload abilities there is a
> > potential for the user to use variety of actions per color differently.
> > This new meter policy API comes to allow this potential in the most
> > ethdev common way using rte_flow action definition.
> > A list of rte_flow actions will be provided by the user per color in
> > order to create a meter policy.
> > In addition, the API forces to pre-define the policy before the meters
> > creation in order to allow sharing of single policy with multiple
> > meters efficiently.
> >
> > meter_policy_id is added into struct rte_mtr_params.
> > So that it can get the policy during the meters creation.
> >
> > Add two common policy template as macros in the header file,
> >
> > RFC ("ethdev: add pre-defined meter policy API")
> > https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20210318085815.804896-
> 1-
> > lizh at nvidia.com/
> >
> > Depends-on: series=16351  ("Add ASO meter support in MLX5 PMD ")
> > https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=16351
> >
> > V2: Delete default policy and change relation doc files.
> > V3: Fix coding style issues.
> > V4: Fix comments about Depends-on
> > V5: Fix comments about rte_mtr_meter_policy_add.
> > V6: Delete policy example.
> > V7: Fix comments and place two common policy template as macros.
> > V8: Fix rebase conflict issues and CI warning
> > V9: Rebase and Fix the comments for softnic driver.
> >
> > Haifei Luo (1):
> >    app/testpmd: support policy actions per color
> >
> > Li Zhang (1):
> >    ethdev: add pre-defined meter policy API
> >
> 
> Hi Li, Haifei,
> 
> This patch conflicts with merged integrity check/conntrack features, also the
> dependent mlx5 ASO set send a new version.
> 
> Can you please send a new version rebasing on latest versions?
> 
> 

Thanks Ferruh point it, I had rebased and also update the new mlx5 ASO series link.
The latest v10 already been sent.

Thanks.



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