Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v10] net/iavf: support flex desc metadata extraction

> -Original Message- > From: Wang, Haiyue > Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 1:22 PM > To: Guo, Jia ; Wu, Jingjing ; > Zhang, Qi Z ; Xing, Beilei ; > Yigit, > Ferruh > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Richardson, Bruce > Subject: RE: [PATCH v10] net/iavf: support flex desc metadata extraction > > >

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v10] net/iavf: support flex desc metadata extraction

> -Original Message- > From: Wang, Haiyue > Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 1:22 PM > To: Guo, Jia ; Wu, Jingjing ; > Zhang, Qi Z ; Xing, Beilei ; > Yigit, Ferruh > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Richardson, Bruce > Subject: RE: [PATCH v10] net/iavf: support flex desc metadata extraction > > > ---

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v10] net/iavf: support flex desc metadata extraction

> -Original Message- > From: Guo, Jia > Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 13:05 > To: Wu, Jingjing ; Zhang, Qi Z ; > Xing, Beilei > ; Yigit, Ferruh > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Wang, Haiyue ; Richardson, Bruce > ; > Guo, Jia > Subject: [PATCH v10] net/iavf: support flex desc metadata extraction >

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v10] net/iavf: support flex desc metadata extraction

Enable metadata extraction for flexible descriptors in AVF, that would allow network function directly get metadata without additional parsing which would reduce the CPU cost for VFs. The enabling metadata extractions involve the metadata of VLAN/IPv4/IPv6/IPv6-FLOW/TCP/MPLS flexible descriptors, a