[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] ip_pipeline: add flow actions pipeline

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at redhat.com
Mon Dec 7 09:51:56 CET 2015


On 12/07/2015 03:17 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2015-11-18 17:09, Fan Zhang:
>> Flow actions pipeline is an extension of flow-classification pipeline.
>> Some of the operations of flow classification pipeline such as traffic
>> metering/marking(for e.g. Single Rate Three Color Marker (srTCM), Two
>> Rate Three Color Marker trTCM)), policer can be performed separately in
>> flow action pipeline to avoid excessive computational burden on the CPU
>> core running the flow-classification pipeline. The Flow action pipeline
>> implements various function such as traffic metering, policer, stats.
>> Traffic mettering can configured as per the required context, for
>> examples- per user, per traffic class or both. These contexts can be
>> applied by specifying parameters in configuration file as shown below;
>>
>> [PIPELINE1]
>> type = FLOW_ACTIONS
>> core = 1
>> pktq_in = RXQ0.0 RXQ1.0 RXQ2.0 RXQ3.0
>> pktq_out = TXQ0.0 TXQ1.0 TXQ2.0 TXQ3.0
>> n_flows = 65536
>> n_meters_per_flow = 1
>> flow_id_offset = 158
>> ip_hdr_offset = 142
>> color_offset = 64
>>
>> The entries of flow and dscp tables of flow actions pipeline can be
>> modified through command-line interface. The commands to add or delete
>> entries to the flow table, DSCP(differentiated services code point)
>> table and for statistics collection, etc have been included. The key
>> functions such as Traffic Metering/marking and policer functions have
>> been implemented as flow-table action handler.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jasvinder Singh <jasvinder.singh at intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Fan Zhang <roy.fan.zhang at intel.com>
>> Acked-by: Cristian Dumitrescu <cristian.dumitrescu at intel.com>
>
> Applied, thanks
>

The patch tries to include pipeline_flow_actions.h which doesn't exist, 
making the ip_pipeline example unbuildable.

Seems like a case of forgotten "git add" when creating the patch...

	- Panu -



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