2014-12-30 04:45, Sujith Sankar:
> On 29/12/14 1:45 pm, "Wu, Jingjing" <jingjing.wu at intel.com> wrote:
> >I found that in perfect fdir is also supported in enic driver.
> >
> >During the R1.8 development, we defined a new dev_ops call filter_ctrl,
> >which can be used to control kinds of filters, flow director is included
> >too. Which is mentioned in
> >http://www.dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2014-September/005179.html .
> >In R1.8, filter_ctrl is only used by i40e driver. And we also planned use
> >it in the existing ixgbe/e1000 driver in the next days. The old APIs such
> >as fdir_add_perfect_filter, fdir_remove_perfect_filter can be replaced
> >then.
> 
> Hi Jingjing,
> Thanks for the info and the link.  I shall take a look at it.
> It looks like bringing in one interface for all filter related operations.
>  I believe ENIC should also move to it.

Yes please.
It is planned to remove or deprecate old flow director API.

-- 
Thomas

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