[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ethdev: add RSS offload type for L3 checksum

[Zhang, AlvinX]

Hi Rybchenko,

Thanks for your review.
We will add more descriptions and update testpmd app in V2.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko at oktetlabs.ru>
> Sent: Thursday, June 3, 2021 3:15 PM
> To: Zhang, AlvinX <alvinx.zhang at intel.com>; Yigit, Ferruh
> <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>; Zhang, Qi Z <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ethdev: add RSS offload type for L3 checksum
> 
> On 6/3/21 6:12 AM, Alvin Zhang wrote:
> > Add ETH_RSS_L3_CHKSUM macro.
> 
> Sorry, too short description. I could be an existing practice to add more RSS
> offload types, but I want to break it.
> Please, add motivation in the description why it is useful etc.
> 
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alvin Zhang <alvinx.zhang at intel.com>
> > ---
> >  lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.h | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.h b/lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.h index
> > faf3bd9..4220ec5 100644
> > --- a/lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.h
> > +++ b/lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.h
> > @@ -537,6 +537,7 @@ struct rte_eth_rss_conf {
> >  #define ETH_RSS_PPPOE		   (1ULL << 31)
> >  #define ETH_RSS_ECPRI		   (1ULL << 32)
> >  #define ETH_RSS_MPLS		   (1ULL << 33)
> 
> Please, add a comment what does it mean in various cases covering various L3
> protocols. IMHO, we must be explicit here since addition of a new L3 protocol
> will make it ambiguous if some drivers/HW use its checksum, but some do not.
> 
> > +#define ETH_RSS_L3_CHKSUM	   (1ULL << 34)
> >
> >  /*
> >   * We use the following macros to combine with above ETH_RSS_* for
> >

BRs,
Alvin Zhang