[dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/5] net/mlx5: add inner tunnel items support on E-Switch

[Shahaf Shuler]

Thursday, December 27, 2018 5:35 PM, Viacheslav Ovsiienko:
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/5] net/mlx5: add inner tunnel items support
> on E-Switch
> 
> The generic Flow rule for tunnels looks like:
> 
> flow create <attributes> <port> \
>             <tunnel outer items pattern> \
>             <tunnel vni item> \
>             <tunnel inner items pattern>
> 
> Current design supports only L2 addresses as inner pattern items. This
> patchset adds support for L3 (IPv4/IPv6) addresses and L4 (TCP/UDP) ports
> items as inner tunnel parameters.
> 
> Also this patchset adds support for inner and outer ethernet types for the E-
> Switch Flows with tunnels. Inner and outer ethernet type match  can be
> specified with ethernet items, vlan items, or implicitly deduced from IP
> address items. The tcm_info field in Netlink message tcm structure is filled
> always with outer protocol.
> 
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at mellanox.com>

Applied to next-net-mlx, thanks. 

> 
> Viacheslav Ovsiienko (5):
>   net/mlx5: remove checks for outer tunnel items on E-Switch
>   net/mlx5: add tunnel inner items validation on E-Switch
>   net/mlx5: add tunnel inner items support on E-Switch
>   net/mlx5: add ethernet type validation on E-Switch
>   net/mlx5: add ethernet type support for tunnels on E-Switch
> 
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_tcf.c | 690 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------
> --------
>  1 file changed, 399 insertions(+), 291 deletions(-)
> 
> --
> 1.8.3.1