[PATCH v2 00/11] Add basic flow support for corenic firmware

[Chaoyong He]

> On 12/5/2023 2:54 AM, Chaoyong He wrote:
> > Add the very basic rte_flow support for corenic firmware.
> >
> > ---
> > v2:
> > * Update the 'nfp.ini' document.
> > * Rebase to the latest main branch.
> > ---
> >
> > Chaoyong He (11):
> >   net/nfp: move some source files
> >   net/nfp: add the structures and functions for flow offload
> >   net/nfp: add the control message channel
> >   net/nfp: support flow API for CoreNIC firmware
> >   net/nfp: support Ethernet flow item
> >   net/nfp: support drop flow action
> >   net/nfp: support IPv4 flow item
> >   net/nfp: support IPv6 flow item
> >   net/nfp: support TCP/UDP/SCTP flow items
> >   net/nfp: support MARK flow action
> >   net/nfp: support QUEUE flow action
> >
> 
> Series applied to dpdk-next-net/main, thanks.
> 
> 
> Flower firmware already supports flow API, right?
Correct.

> What is the difference of these two firmware? Are they both actively used?
The flower firmware aims to support as much flow APIs (and match patterns/actions)as possible, 
and the corenic firmware will only support very limited ones (just enough) to some strict user case, like flow steering, 
bond offload ...