Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6] net/iavf: support flex desc metadata extraction
From: Zhang, Qi Z <hidden>
Date: 2020-09-27 03:00:25
From: Zhang, Qi Z <hidden>
Date: 2020-09-27 03:00:25
-----Original Message----- From: Guo, Jia <redacted> Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2020 10:09 AM To: Wu, Jingjing <redacted>; Zhang, Qi Z <redacted>; Xing, Beilei [off-list ref] Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Wang, Haiyue <redacted>; Guo, Jia [off-list ref] Subject: [PATCH v6] net/iavf: support flex desc metadata extraction Enable metadata extraction for flexible descriptors in AVF, that would allow network function directly get metadata without additional parsing which would reduce the CPU cost for VFs. The enabling metadata extractions involve the metadata of VLAN/IPv4/IPv6/IPv6-FLOW/TCP/MPLS flexible descriptors, and the VF could negotiate the capability of the flexible descriptor with PF and correspondingly configure the specific offload at receiving queues. Signed-off-by: Jeff Guo <redacted> Acked-by: Haiyue Wang <redacted>
Applied to dpdk-next-net-intel. Thanks Qi