[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8] ethdev: add IPv4 and L4 checksum RSS offload types

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 9/15/2021 6:47 AM, Alvin Zhang wrote:
> This patch defines new RSS offload types for IPv4 and
> L4(TCP/UDP/SCTP) checksum, which are required when users want
> to distribute packets based on the IPv4 or L4 checksum field.
> 
> For example "flow create 0 ingress pattern eth / ipv4 / end
> actions rss types ipv4-chksum end queues end / end", this flow
> causes all matching packets to be distributed to queues on
> basis of IPv4 checksum.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alvin Zhang <alvinx.zhang at intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>
> Acked-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde at broadcom.com>
> Acked-by: Aman Deep Singh <aman.deep.singh at intel.com>

<...>

> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst
> @@ -87,6 +87,11 @@ New Features
>    Added command-line options to specify total number of processes and
>    current process ID. Each process owns subset of Rx and Tx queues.
>  
> +* **Add new RSS offload types for IPv4/L4 checksum in RSS flow.**
> +
> +  Add macros ETH_RSS_IPV4_CHKSUM and ETH_RSS_L4_CHKSUM, now IPv4 and
> +  TCP/UDP/SCTP header checksum field can be used as input set for RSS.
> +
>  

Thomas reported the issue that release notes items should be in past tense,
updated the documentation in next-net, as s/Add/Added/ , fyi.