[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/5] examples/l3fwd-power: support virtio/vhost

[Li, Miao]

Got it. I will change the codes and add the port configuration updating according to the device information. Thanks!

Miao

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, September 10, 2021 4:50 PM
> To: Li, Miao <miao.li at intel.com>
> Cc: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>; dev at dpdk.org; Xia,
> Chenbo <chenbo.xia at intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/5] examples/l3fwd-power: support
> virtio/vhost
> 
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 10:34 AM Li, Miao <miao.li at intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > In l3fwd-power, there is default port configuration which requires RSS and
> IPV4/UDP/TCP checksum. Once device does not support these, the l3fwd-
> power will exit and report an error.
> 
> Maxime suggested to update the port configuration based on its capabilities.
> 
> For RSS, it would be something like what I proposed for OVS:
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openvswitch/patch/20210830101304.1
> 3689-1-david.marchand at redhat.com/
> 
> As for IPv4/UDP/TCP rx checksums, I am not sure there is any actual
> requirement for this app.
> Probably something to investigate wrt DO_RFC_1812_CHECKS.
> 
> 
> --
> David Marchand