[PATCH v2] app/testpmd: support updating flow rule actions

[Dariusz Sosnowski]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> Sent: Friday, February 2, 2024 10:55
> To: mko-plv at napatech.com; ckm at napatech.com; Oleksandr Kolomeiets
> <okl-plv at napatech.com>
> Cc: aman.deep.singh at intel.com; yuying.zhang at intel.com; dev at dpdk.org;
> Ori Kam <orika at nvidia.com>; Dariusz Sosnowski <dsosnowski at nvidia.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] app/testpmd: support updating flow rule actions
> 
> 01/02/2024 10:59, Oleksandr Kolomeiets:
> > "flow actions_update" updates a flow rule specified by a rule ID with
> > a new action list by making a call to "rte_flow_actions_update()":
> >
> >     flow actions_update {port_id} {rule_id}
> >         actions {action} [/ {action} [...]] / end [user_id]
> >
> > Creating, updating and destroying a flow rule:
> >
> >     testpmd> flow create 0 group 1 pattern eth / end actions drop / end
> >     Flow rule #0 created
> >     testpmd> flow actions_update 0 0 actions queue index 1 / end
> >     Flow rule #0 updated with new actions
> >     testpmd> flow destroy 0 rule 0
> >     Flow rule #0 destroyed
> 
> Why not a simple "flow update" command name?

+1. This would also make it consistent with async version of this command - "flow queue {port_id} update ...".