On 04/03/16 10:58, Ananyev, Konstantin wrote: > Hi, > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Olivier MATZ >> Sent: Friday, March 04, 2016 9:29 AM >> To: Zoltan Kiss; dev at dpdk.org >> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] rte_mbuf's packet_type field >> >> Hi Zoltan, >> >> On 03/01/2016 06:15 PM, Zoltan Kiss wrote: >>> I have a quick question about this field: how do I know if the >>> underlying PMD supports a particular protocol parsing. Let's say I want >>> to check for SCTP packets, looking at this field tells me EITHER the >>> packet is SCTP (or not), OR that the hardware has no idea about SCTP. Is >>> there a way to figure that support out? >> >> I'm not aware of such a feature. I guess you want to avoid to re-check >> all protocols in software if the hardware supports some of them and >> did not recognize them? In that case it may be interesting, but it would >> result in a lot of feature flags. > > Nothing in the mainline, but there is a patches in-flight: > http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/10921/
Thanks, this would do it! Regards, Zoltan > > Konstantin > >> >> Regards, >> Olivier >