[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 01/10] ethdev: add a generic flow and new behavior switch to fdir

[Thomas Monjalon]

2016-02-24 14:43, Bruce Richardson:
> On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 02:02:22PM +0530, Rahul Lakkireddy wrote:
> > Add a new raw packet flow that allows specifying generic flow input.
> > 
> > Add the ability to provide masks for fields in flow to allow range of
> > values.
> > 
> > Add a new behavior switch.
> > 
> > Add the ability to provide behavior arguments to allow rewriting matched
> > fields with new values. Ex: allows to provide new ip and port addresses
> > to rewrite the fields of packets matching a filter rule before NAT'ing.
> > 
> Thomas, any comments as ethdev maintainer?

Yes, some comments.
First, there are several different changes in the same patch. It must be split.
Then I don't understand at all the raw flow filter. What is a raw flow?
How behavior_arg must be used?