[PATCH 2/4] ethdev: allow meter color marker modification
Alexander Kozyrev
akozyrev at nvidia.com
Tue May 24 14:19:50 CEST 2022
On Thur, May 19, 2022 10:49 Dumitrescu, Cristian <cristian.dumitrescu at intel.com>:
> This is not really correct. The packet color is a sort if meta-data field that does
> not get sent out directly.
>
> Yes, it can translate to a header field, but there are many possibilities:
> outer/inner VLAN PCP&DEI, IPv4/IPv6 DSCP, MPLS QoS, etc. We need to specify
> exactly which field from the packet needs to be modified.
>
> We had the same problem for the input color mechanism, I suggest you take a
> look at Jerin's patch.
You are absolutely correct, I'm not changing any way of color storing internally.
I changed the description in the v2 patch to reflect it is metadata field. Thanks.
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