[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 0/3] lpm: increase number of next hops for lpm (ipv4)

Matthew Hall mhall at mhcomputing.net
Fri Oct 23 18:20:33 CEST 2015


On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 03:51:48PM +0200, Michal Jastrzebski wrote:
> From: Michal Kobylinski  <michalx.kobylinski at intel.com>
> 
> The current DPDK implementation for LPM for IPv4 and IPv6 limits the
> number of next hops to 256, as the next hop ID is an 8-bit long field.
> Proposed extension increase number of next hops for IPv4 to 2^24 and
> also allows 32-bits read/write operations.
> 
> This patchset requires additional change to rte_table library to meet 
> ABI compatibility requirements. A v2 will be sent next week.

I also have a patchset for this.

I will send it out as well so we could compare.

Matthew.


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