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

[Zhang, AlvinX]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yigit, Ferruh <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 9:09 PM
> To: Zhang, AlvinX <alvinx.zhang at intel.com>; Zhang, Qi Z
> <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde at broadcom.com>; Singh,
> Aman Deep <aman.deep.singh at intel.com>; Thomas Monjalon
> <thomas at monjalon.net>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v8] ethdev: add IPv4 and L4 checksum RSS offload types
> 
> 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.

Ok, Thanks.