Does ACL support field size of 8 bytes?

[Konstantin Ananyev]

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>> 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?
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>> 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)
> 

Yep agree, field_index and offset - seems enough,
other stuff can probably be figured out by analyzing these two fields.
Though as you said, it would require some extra effort.