[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] examples/flow_classify: add an ACL table for tcp

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Thu, 19 Aug 2021 12:34:46 -0700
Sowmini Varadhan <sovaradh at linux.microsoft.com> wrote:

> On (08/19/21 16:21), Iremonger, Bernard wrote:
> > 
> > Looking closer at this patchset, I am not sure that a second ACL table is needed.
> > The existing ACL table handles UDP, TCP and SCP, however it is not processing the TCP flags.
> > I think it just needs to be modified to process the TCP flags.
> > Could you take another look to see if the above proposed solution will work for you.  
> 
> I'm not sure it would. As I pointed out in the original rfc  at
> https://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/cover.1578936382.git.sowmini.varadhan@microsoft.com/
> 
> we need to add a key for the 8 bit flags, but the multibit
> trie lookup moves in steps of 4 bytes.
> 
> However, it has admittedly been a while since I tinkereed with this,
> and I can give it a shot and get back.
> 
> Thanks
> --Sowmini
> 

Doing a cleanup of patch backlog prior to next LTS release.
The patch never got updated based on comments.
Please resubmit if you still want to pursue it.