Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/7] ethdev: add new Rx offload flags

From: Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran <jerinj@marvell.com>
To: Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula <pbhagavatula@marvell.com>,
	"ferruh.yigit@intel.com" <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
	Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula <pbhagavatula@marvell.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH  0/7] ethdev: add new Rx offload flags
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 06:02:39 +0000	[thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <20190816055511.2322-1-pbhagavatula@marvell.com>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pbhagavatula@marvell.com <pbhagavatula@marvell.com>
> Sent: Friday, August 16, 2019 11:25 AM
> To: Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran <jerinj@marvell.com>; ferruh.yigit@intel.com
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula
> <pbhagavatula@marvell.com>
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/7] ethdev: add new Rx offload flags
> 
> From: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula@marvell.com>
> 
> Add new Rx offload flags `DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_RSS_HASH` and
> `DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_FLOW_MARK`. These flags can be used to
> enable/disable PMD writes to rte_mbuf fields `hash.rss` and `hash.fdir.hi`
> and also `ol_flags:PKT_RX_RSS` and `ol_flags:PKT_RX_FDIR`.
> 
> Add new packet type set function `rte_eth_dev_set_supported_ptypes`,
> allows application to inform PMDs about the packet types it is interested in.
> Based on ptypes requested by application PMDs can optimize the Rx path.
> 
> For example, if a given PMD doesn't support any packet types that the
> application is interested in then the application can disable[1] writes to
> `mbuf.packet_type` done by the PMD and use a software ptype parser.
> 	[1] rte_eth_dev_set_supported_ptypes(*port_id*, 0);
> 
> 
> Pavan Nikhilesh (7):
>   ethdev: add set ptype function
>   ethdev: add mbuf RSS update as a offload
>   ethdev: add flow action type update as an offload
>   net: update Rx RSS hash offload capabilities
>   net: update Rx flow action offload capabilities
>   net: add ptype set default functionality
>   examples/eventdev_pipeline: add new Rx RSS hash offload

Missing the examples update to disable ptype when not needed.