Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 1/5] ethdev: add extensions attributes to IPv6 item

2020-10-14 Thread Thomas Monjalon
13/10/2020 15:32, Dekel Peled: > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst > + * Added extensions' attributes to struct ``rte_flow_item_ipv6``. > +A set of additional values added to struct, indicating the existence of > +every defined exte

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 1/5] ethdev: add extensions attributes to IPv6 item

2020-10-13 Thread Dekel Peled
Using the current implementation of DPDK, an application cannot match on IPv6 packets, based on the existing extension headers, in a simple way. Field 'Next Header' in IPv6 header indicates type of the first extension header only. Following extension headers can't be identified by inspecting the I