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[dpdk-dev,v4,1/3] mbuf: add Tx side tunneling type

Message ID 1470023815-23108-2-git-send-email-jianfeng.tan@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: Thomas Monjalon
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Jianfeng Tan Aug. 1, 2016, 3:56 a.m. UTC 
  To support tunneling packet offload capabilities on Tx side, PMDs
(e.g., i40e) need to know what kind of tunneling type of this packet.
Instead of analyzing the packet itself, we depend on applications to
correctly set the tunneling type. These flags are defined inside
rte_mbuf.ol_flags.

Signed-off-by: Zhe Tao <zhe.tao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.c |  4 ++++
 lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.c b/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.c
index 4846b89..4505abb 100644
--- a/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.c
+++ b/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.c
@@ -302,6 +302,10 @@  const char *rte_get_tx_ol_flag_name(uint64_t mask)
 	case PKT_TX_OUTER_IP_CKSUM: return "PKT_TX_OUTER_IP_CKSUM";
 	case PKT_TX_OUTER_IPV4: return "PKT_TX_OUTER_IPV4";
 	case PKT_TX_OUTER_IPV6: return "PKT_TX_OUTER_IPV6";
+	case PKT_TX_TUNNEL_VXLAN: return "PKT_TX_TUNNEL_VXLAN";
+	case PKT_TX_TUNNEL_GRE: return "PKT_TX_TUNNEL_GRE";
+	case PKT_TX_TUNNEL_IPIP: return "PKT_TX_TUNNEL_IPIP";
+	case PKT_TX_TUNNEL_GENEVE: return "PKT_TX_TUNNEL_GENEVE";
 	default: return NULL;
 	}
 }
diff --git a/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h b/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h
index 101485f..0eec112 100644
--- a/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h
+++ b/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h
@@ -129,6 +129,18 @@  extern "C" {
 /* add new TX flags here */
 
 /**
+ * Bits 45:48 used for the tunnel type.
+ * When doing Tx offload like TSO or checksum, the HW needs to configure the
+ * tunnel type into the HW descriptors.
+ */
+#define PKT_TX_TUNNEL_VXLAN   (0x1ULL << 45)
+#define PKT_TX_TUNNEL_GRE     (0x2ULL << 45)
+#define PKT_TX_TUNNEL_IPIP    (0x3ULL << 45)
+#define PKT_TX_TUNNEL_GENEVE  (0x4ULL << 45)
+/* add new TX TUNNEL type here */
+#define PKT_TX_TUNNEL_MASK    (0xFULL << 45)
+
+/**
  * Second VLAN insertion (QinQ) flag.
  */
 #define PKT_TX_QINQ_PKT    (1ULL << 49)   /**< TX packet with double VLAN inserted. */
@@ -863,7 +875,10 @@  struct rte_mbuf {
 	union {
 		uint64_t tx_offload;       /**< combined for easy fetch */
 		struct {
-			uint64_t l2_len:7; /**< L2 (MAC) Header Length. */
+			uint64_t l2_len:7;
+			/**< L2 (MAC) Header Length for non-tunneling pkt.
+			 * Outer_L4_len + ... + Inner_L2_len for tunneling pkt.
+			 */
 			uint64_t l3_len:9; /**< L3 (IP) Header Length. */
 			uint64_t l4_len:8; /**< L4 (TCP/UDP) Header Length. */
 			uint64_t tso_segsz:16; /**< TCP TSO segment size */