[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] mbuf: improve API doc for tunnel Tx offloads

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Fri Apr 20 02:13:24 CEST 2018


Add few details to remind TSO flag, checksum flags and header lengths.

The doxygen syntax for MPLS-in-UDP is fixed.

Fixes: d95188551fa1 ("mbuf: introduce new Tx offload flag for MPLS-in-UDP")
Cc: harish.patil at cavium.com

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
---
 lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h b/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h
index 7ae3bab14..adf95e3cd 100644
--- a/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h
+++ b/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h
@@ -201,14 +201,16 @@ extern "C" {
 
 /**
  * Bits 45:48 used for the tunnel type.
- * When doing Tx offload like TSO or checksum, the HW needs to configure the
- * tunnel type into the HW descriptors.
+ * The tunnel type must be specified for TSO or checksum on tunnel packets.
+ * These flags can be used with PKT_TX_TCP_SEG for TSO, or PKT_TX_xxx_CKSUM.
+ * The mbuf fields for inner and outer header lengths may be required:
+ * outer_l2_len, outer_l3_len, l2_len, l3_len, l4_len.
  */
 #define PKT_TX_TUNNEL_VXLAN   (0x1ULL << 45)
 #define PKT_TX_TUNNEL_GRE     (0x2ULL << 45)
 #define PKT_TX_TUNNEL_IPIP    (0x3ULL << 45)
 #define PKT_TX_TUNNEL_GENEVE  (0x4ULL << 45)
-/**< TX packet with MPLS-in-UDP RFC 7510 header. */
+/** TX packet with MPLS-in-UDP RFC 7510 header. */
 #define PKT_TX_TUNNEL_MPLSINUDP (0x5ULL << 45)
 /* add new TX TUNNEL type here */
 #define PKT_TX_TUNNEL_MASK    (0xFULL << 45)
-- 
2.16.2



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