[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] ethdev: increase flow type limit from 32 to 64

[Rybalchenko, Kirill]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yigit, Ferruh
> Sent: Wednesday 17 January 2018 16:57
> To: Rybalchenko, Kirill <kirill.rybalchenko at intel.com>; dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: Chilikin, Andrey <andrey.chilikin at intel.com>; thomas at monjalon.net
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] ethdev: increase flow type limit from 32
> to 64
> 
> On 1/15/2018 5:33 PM, Kirill Rybalchenko wrote:
> > Increase the internal limit for flow types from 32 to 64 to support
> > future flow type extensions.
> > Change type of variables from uint32_t[] to uint64_t[]:
> > rte_eth_fdir_info.flow_types_mask
> > rte_eth_hash_global_conf.sym_hash_enable_mask
> > rte_eth_hash_global_conf.valid_bit_mask
> >
> > This modification affects the following components:
> > net/i40e
> > net/ixgbe
> > app/testpmd
> >
> > v2:
> > implement versioning of rte_eth_dev_filter_ctrl function for ABI
> > backward compatibility with version 17.11 and older
> >
> > v3:
> > fix code style warnings
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kirill Rybalchenko <kirill.rybalchenko at intel.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
> 
> 
> I suggest keeping deprecation notice and clean versioning in next release,
> does it make sense?

Yes, I think it should be done in this way, just to keep source codes  tidy.