Does ACL support field size of 8 bytes?

Ido Goshen Ido at cgstowernetworks.com
Mon May 16 08:28:20 CEST 2022


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.v.ananyev at yandex.ru>
> Sent: Sunday, 15 May 2022 23:54
> To: Ido Goshen <Ido at cgstowernetworks.com>; Ananyev, Konstantin
> <konstantin.ananyev at intel.com>; users at dpdk.org; dev at dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: Does ACL support field size of 8 bytes?
> 
> 
> My concern was it is sort of awkward in terms of input_field value for rules with
> 8B long.

[idog] I'm always puzzled with the input_index field. 
I just randomly group the small size fields (u8, u16) without any applicative meaning.
Feels like it's redundant in the API an can be done internally by the lib like you do now for u64  
(though it'll be less trivial to do) 



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