On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 6:55 PM Eli Britstein <el...@nvidia.com> wrote:
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>
> On 2/23/2021 3:10 PM, Sriharsha Basavapatna wrote:
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> On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 8:57 PM Eli Britstein <el...@nvidia.com> wrote:
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> When offloading vports, we don't configure rte_flow on the vport itself,
> as it is not a physical dpdk port, but rather on uplinks. Implement
> those APIs as a pre-step to enable iterate over the ports.
>
> We don't need these flow_dump APIs, since we are not really dumping
> any flows here and also orig_in_port is provided to the offload layer
> (Patch 12).
>
> We still need them to traverse the ports to get the vxlan netdev in case of a 
> miss. See patch #5:
>
> 37056941f netdev-offload-dpdk: Implement HW miss packet recover for vport
>
> There, see get_vport_netdev.
>
> The naming is because this is "flow_api" and the implementation is of an 
> existing API rather than introducing new one(s).

I've suggested a new API (see my comments in Patch 5).
>
> Thanks,
> -Harsha
>
>

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