[RFC 1/2] ethdev: port flags for pre-configuration flow hints

[Jack Min]

On 5/31/22 00:46, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> We were waiting for a v2 of this patch.

Hey Thomas,

Thank you for the comments.

Yes, I'll send v2.

> More comments below.
I'll update the patch in v2 accordingly.
>
> 07/04/2022 07:30, Xiaoyu Min:
>> The data-path focused flow rule management can manage flow rules in more
>> optimized way then tranditional one by using hits provided by
> hits -> hints
>
>> application in initialization phase.
>>
>> In addition to the current hints we have in port attr, more hints could
>> be proivded by application about it's behaviour.
> it's -> its
>
>> One example is how the application do with the same flow:
> flow -> flow rule ?
>
>> A. create/destroy flow on same queue but query flow on different queue
>>     or queue-less way (i.e, counter query)
>> B. All flow operations will be exactly on the same queue, by which PMD
>>     could be in more optimized way then A because resource could be
>>     isolated and access based on queue, without lock for example.
>>
>> This patch add flag about above situation and could be extanded to cover
> extended
>
>> more situations.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Xiaoyu Min<jackmin at nvidia.com>
>> ---
>> +/**
>> + * The flags of rte flow port
>> + */
>> +enum rte_flow_port_flag {
> Don't use enum for bit flags.
>
>> +	/**
>> +	 * All flow operations for one specified flow will _strictlly_ happen
> I guess you mean "for a given flow rule"
>
> strictlly -> _strictly_
>
>
>
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