Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/4] ethdev: allow negative values in flow rule types

2020-10-04 Thread Ajit Khaparde
Gregory, Please see inline. On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 2:19 AM Gregory Etelson wrote: > > From: Gregory Etelson > > RTE flow items & actions use positive values in item & action type. > Negative values are reserved for PMD private types. PMD > items & actions usually are not exposed to application

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/4] ethdev: allow negative values in flow rule types

2020-10-04 Thread Gregory Etelson
Hello Ajit, [snip] > > RTE flow library functions cannot work with PMD private items and > > actions (elements) because RTE flow has no API to query PMD flow > > object size. In the patch, PMD flow elements use object pointer. > > RTE flow library functions handle PMD element object size as > > si

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/4] ethdev: allow negative values in flow rule types

2020-09-30 Thread Gregory Etelson
From: Gregory Etelson RTE flow items & actions use positive values in item & action type. Negative values are reserved for PMD private types. PMD items & actions usually are not exposed to application and are not used to create RTE flows. The patch allows applications with access to PMD flow ite