[dpdk-dev] Intel XL710

Liu, Jijiang jijiang.liu at intel.com
Fri Jun 12 04:32:17 CEST 2015


The header split support  is being planned in next DPDK release. 
If you can implement it and submit a patch before next release, it is welcomed. Thanks


> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Moran, John
> Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 11:07 PM
> To: dev at dpdk.org
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] Intel XL710
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I submitted this question yesterday, when I did not belong to group. Re-
> submitting now that I am a member!
> 
> I am working on a design where a dpdk/intel710 based switch will receive
> VXLAN traffic (DPDK 2.0 with centos 7 and kvm).
> Ideally we would like to have the NIC strip the VXLAN header and then
> forward the packet based on mac or vlan id of the inner packet.
> 
> Question. From looking the Add a VXLAN sample at
> //www.litchfie.dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2015-April/016518.html.  it  looks
> as if is possible to use the HW header splitter to access inner vlan. The NIC
> will then assign the packet to the correct internal queue?
> 
> I just want to confirm this before I start make promises in design.
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> 
> Jack Moran
> ViaSat



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