On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 07:59:33PM +0530, Jerin Jacob wrote: > On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 04:04:13PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > 2016-03-31 02:21, Jerin Jacob: > > > - added VXLAN, GENEVE and NVGRE tunnel flow types > > > - added PORT flow type for accounting physical/virtual > > > port or channel number in flow creation > > > > These API change could be considered for 16.07 if they are motivated > > by any use. Please bring some use cases, thanks. > > The use case is to spray the packets to multiple queues using RSS on > Tunnel type packets. > > Considering the case if RSS hash does not account inner packet in tunnel > case, the packet always to go a particular queue as mostly likely > outer header remains same in tunnel packets and RSS spread > will not be achieved in tunnel packets case. > > This feature is part of the RSS capability of ThunderX > NIC HW. Which, we are planning to upstream on next release. > > I thought of pushing the common code changes first.
Ping Can we merge this changeset if their are no concerns? and their is a real consumer for this, http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-June/041374.html Jerin