From patchwork Mon Aug 3 12:53:20 2020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Slava Ovsiienko X-Patchwork-Id: 75144 X-Patchwork-Delegate: thomas@monjalon.net Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork@inbox.dpdk.org Delivered-To: patchwork@inbox.dpdk.org Received: from dpdk.org (dpdk.org [92.243.14.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C10FA052A; Mon, 3 Aug 2020 14:53:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE5092BE1; Mon, 3 Aug 2020 14:53:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: from git-send-mailer.rdmz.labs.mlnx (unknown [37.142.13.130]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 858C72952 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2020 14:53:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Viacheslav Ovsiienko To: dev@dpdk.org Cc: matan@mellanox.com, rasland@mellanox.com, thomas@monjalon.net, ferruh.yigit@intel.com, jerinjacobk@gmail.com, stephen@networkplumber.org, arybchenko@solarflare.com, ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com, maxime.coquelin@redhat.com, olivier.matz@6wind.com, david.marchand@redhat.com Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 12:53:20 +0000 Message-Id: <1596459200-30689-1-git-send-email-viacheslavo@mellanox.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.3.1 Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce GENEVE header options support X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" In order to add support of the GENEVE header variable length options the rte_flow_item_geneve_option item will be introduced: struct rte_flow_item_geneve_option { rte_be16_t option_class; uint8_t option_type:7; uint8_t critical:1; uint8_t length:5; uint8_t rsvd0:3; uint8_t data[]; }; This option (one or multiple) must follow the rte_flow_item_geneve item and provide the pattern to match with GENEVE header option. Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index cd700ae..b6bdb83 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -109,6 +109,10 @@ Deprecation Notices Existing ``rte_eth_rx_descriptor_status`` and ``rte_eth_tx_descriptor_status`` APIs can be used as replacement. +* ethdev: in order to provide support of the GENEVE header variable length + options in rte_flow API the rte_flow_item_geneve_option item will be + introduced. + * ethdev: Some internal APIs for driver usage are exported in the .map file. Now DPDK has ``__rte_internal`` marker so we can mark internal APIs and move them to the INTERNAL block in .map. Although these APIs are internal it will