[dpdk-dev] How about add rte flow get capablity APIs

Ferruh Yigit ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Tue Mar 23 11:27:20 CET 2021


On 3/23/2021 12:52 AM, Fengchengwen wrote:
> Hi, Ori and Ferruh
> 
>    Currently, the rte flow APIs lack of get capability APIs, upper-application
> 
> could not get the device capability unless look doc or code or even test it.
> 
>    Maybe it's a good idea to add the get capability like traffic manager
> 
> framework, what do you think?
> 

Not providing capability was a design decision, because it may not be possible 
to provide capability information correctly.

The preferred method is 'rte_flow_validate()'.
Application should call 'rte_flow_validate()' to decide if a rule can be created 
or not, and take an action accordingly.


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