[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v10 00/19] unified packet type

2015-07-16 Thread Thomas Monjalon
2015-07-10 00:31, Helin Zhang: > Currently only 6 bits which are stored in ol_flags are used to indicate the > packet types. This is not enough, as some NIC hardware can recognize quite > a lot of packet types, e.g i40e hardware can recognize more than 150 packet > types. Hiding those packet types

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v10 00/19] unified packet type

2015-07-15 Thread Zhang, Helin
> -Original Message- > From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com] > Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 4:01 PM > To: Zhang, Helin > Cc: dev at dpdk.org > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v10 00/19] unified packet type > > 2015-07-10 00:31, Helin Zha

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v10 00/19] unified packet type

2015-07-10 Thread Helin Zhang
Currently only 6 bits which are stored in ol_flags are used to indicate the packet types. This is not enough, as some NIC hardware can recognize quite a lot of packet types, e.g i40e hardware can recognize more than 150 packet types. Hiding those packet types hides hardware offload capabilities whi