[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/12] Add API to get packet type info

[Qiu, Michael]

On 12/31/2015 9:53 PM, Jianfeng Tan wrote:
> HAPPRY NEW YEAR!
>
> A new ether API rte_eth_dev_get_ptype_info() is added to query what
> packet type information will be provided by current pmd driver of the
> specifed port.
>
> To achieve this, a new function pointer, dev_ptype_info_get, is added
> into struct eth_dev_ops. For those devices who do not implement it, it
> means it will not provide any ptype info.

I haven't go through all the patches, but I have a question, what's the
usercase of this API?

Thanks,
Michael
> Jianfeng Tan (12):
>   ethdev: add API to query what/if packet type is set
>   pmd/cxgbe: add dev_ptype_info_get implementation
>   pmd/e1000: add dev_ptype_info_get implementation
>   pmd/enic: add dev_ptype_info_get implementation
>   pmd/fm10k: add dev_ptype_info_get implementation
>   pmd/i40e: add dev_ptype_info_get implementation
>   pmd/ixgbe: add dev_ptype_info_get implementation
>   pmd/mlx4: add dev_ptype_info_get implementation
>   pmd/mlx5: add dev_ptype_info_get implementation
>   pmd/nfp: add dev_ptype_info_get implementation
>   pmd/vmxnet3: add dev_ptype_info_get implementation
>   examples/l3fwd: add option to parse ptype
>
>  drivers/net/cxgbe/cxgbe_ethdev.c     | 17 +++++++
>  drivers/net/e1000/igb_ethdev.c       | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/net/enic/enic_ethdev.c       | 20 +++++++++
>  drivers/net/fm10k/fm10k_ethdev.c     | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/net/fm10k/fm10k_rxtx.c       |  5 +++
>  drivers/net/fm10k/fm10k_rxtx_vec.c   |  5 +++
>  drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c       |  1 +
>  drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev_vf.c    |  1 +
>  drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx.c         | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx.h         |  2 +
>  drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c     | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.h     |  2 +
>  drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx.c       |  5 ++-
>  drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4.c              | 27 +++++++++++
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c              |  1 +
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.h              |  2 +
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_ethdev.c       | 25 +++++++++++
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxtx.c         |  2 +
>  drivers/net/nfp/nfp_net.c            | 18 ++++++++
>  drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_ethdev.c | 20 +++++++++
>  examples/l3fwd/main.c                | 86 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c        | 12 +++++
>  lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h        | 22 +++++++++
>  lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h           | 13 ++++++
>  24 files changed, 511 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>