Hi, qi > -----Original Message----- > From: Zhang, Qi Z > Sent: Wednesday, January 2, 2019 9:19 AM > To: Zhao1, Wei <[email protected]>; [email protected] > Cc: [email protected]; Lu, Wenzhuo <[email protected]>; Peng, Yuan > <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: [PATCH v2 1/2] net/ixgbe: enable x550 flexible byte filter > > HI Wei: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Zhao1, Wei > > Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2018 1:45 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Cc: [email protected]; Lu, Wenzhuo <[email protected]>; Zhang, Qi Z > > <[email protected]>; Peng, Yuan <[email protected]>; Zhao1, Wei > > <[email protected]> > > Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] net/ixgbe: enable x550 flexible byte filter > > > > There is need for users to use flexible byte filter on x550. > > x550 support IP mode and tunnel mode flexible byte filter. > > tunnel mode flexible byte filter is used for vxlan packets and so on. > > It can be used combined with FDIR tunnel filter. > > By now, ixgbe PMD flow parer code do not support tunnel mode flexible > > byte filter for x550, So I have to enable it in function > ixgbe_parse_fdir_filter_tunnel(). > > Although IP mode flexible byte filter parser is support in function > > ixgbe_parse_fdir_filter_normal(), but some flow like "flow create 0 > > ingress pattern raw pattern is 0xab / end actions queue index 3 / end" > > need to be support, so parser code also need change a little. > > This patch enable all of these feature. > > I would suggest to divide this patch into 3 patches 1. more accurate input set > mask setup (include all changes in ixgbe_fdir.c) 2. support flexbyte without > IP > layer (include changes in ixgbe_parse_fdir_filter_normal) 3. support flexbyte > in tunnel mode (include changes in ixgbe_parse_fdir_flilter_tunnel) > > Btw, please make sure to sync the acceptable flow pattern/action description > above function ixgbe_parse_fdir_filter_xxxxx to their new behaviors
There will be 4 patch in this set, because there is other for flow_cmdline parser, is that ok? > > Thanks > Qi
