[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/2] ethdev: add support for raw flow type for flow director

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 10/4/2017 5:57 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 03/10/2017 21:02, Ferruh Yigit:
>> On 9/20/2017 9:42 AM, Kirill Rybalchenko wrote:
>>> For complex packets use raw flow type with pre-constructed packet buffer
>>> instead of creating a packet internally in PMD.
> 
> Sorry for not catching this series before.
> 
> As it has been said several times on this mailing list,
> the flow director API is deprecated.
> I think everybody here knows that it is going to be replaced
> by rte_flow.
> 
> That's why it does not make sense to extend flow director.
> We are not going to update PMDs to support a new type
> of legacy flow director.
> Please focus your efforts on rte_flow.

As far as I can see this is not to to extend flow director. But driver
uses this struct and adding a new feature into driver requires update in
this struct.

I guess idea was for new filter functionalities PMD should use rte_flow,
that is the new shiny method we have, I see the point here. But I don't
see the point of making these structs under use completely immutable.

> 
> 
>>> Kirill Rybalchenko (2):
>>>   ethdev: add support for raw flow type for flow director
>>>   net/i40e: add support for raw flow type for flow director
>>
>> Series Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
>