[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] ethdev: refine doxygen for add UDP tunnel port API

Qi Zhang qi.z.zhang at intel.com
Tue Jan 19 04:19:05 CET 2021


Refine the doxygen for rte_eth_dev_udp_tunnel_port_add.
Add more detail description of the impacted offload functions.

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

v2:
- reword doxygen that focus on API impact base on previous discussion. 

 lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h b/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h
index f758ec837..ab50a7039 100644
--- a/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h
+++ b/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h
@@ -4031,6 +4031,17 @@ rte_eth_dev_rss_hash_conf_get(uint16_t port_id,
  * to change or add more UDP port for the tunnel. So the offloading function
  * can take effect on the packets with the specific UDP port.
  *
+ * The impacted offloading functions include:
+ *
+ * - A specific tunnel type in mbuf->packet_type
+ *
+ * - A rte_flow rule that matches on specific tunnel header
+ *
+ * NOTE: If a packet only has a matched UDP port but don't have a legal tunnel
+ *       header, the packet may still not be recognized as a tunnel packet by
+ *       the device parser, then the related offloading function will not take
+ *       effect.
+ *
  * @param port_id
  *   The port identifier of the Ethernet device.
  * @param tunnel_udp
-- 
2.26.2



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