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
