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> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2018 10:16:31 +0000
> From: "Ananyev, Konstantin" <[email protected]>
> To: Jerin Jacob <[email protected]>
> CC: "Lu, Wenzhuo" <[email protected]>, "Wu, Jingjing"
>  <[email protected]>, "Iremonger, Bernard"
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>  "Kovacevic, Marko" <[email protected]>, Thomas Monjalon
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> Subject: RE: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/4] ethdev: add Rx offload outer UDP
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jerin Jacob [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 10:22 AM
> > To: Ananyev, Konstantin <[email protected]>
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> > <[email protected]>; Iremonger, Bernard <[email protected]>;
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> > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/4] ethdev: add Rx offload outer UDP 
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > > Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2018 09:17:18 +0000
> > > From: "Ananyev, Konstantin" <[email protected]>
> > > To: Jerin Jacob <[email protected]>
> > > CC: "Lu, Wenzhuo" <[email protected]>, "Wu, Jingjing"
> > >  <[email protected]>, "Iremonger, Bernard"
> > >  <[email protected]>, "Mcnamara, John" 
> > > <[email protected]>,
> > >  "Kovacevic, Marko" <[email protected]>, Thomas Monjalon
> > >  <[email protected]>, "Yigit, Ferruh" <[email protected]>, Andrew
> > >  Rybchenko <[email protected]>, Olivier Matz
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> > > Subject: RE: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/4] ethdev: add Rx offload outer UDP
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> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Jerin Jacob [mailto:[email protected]]
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 9:59 AM
> > > > To: Ananyev, Konstantin <[email protected]>
> > > > Cc: Lu, Wenzhuo <[email protected]>; Wu, Jingjing 
> > > > <[email protected]>; Iremonger, Bernard
> > <[email protected]>;
> > > > Mcnamara, John <[email protected]>; Kovacevic, Marko 
> > > > <[email protected]>; Thomas Monjalon
> > > > <[email protected]>; Yigit, Ferruh <[email protected]>; Andrew 
> > > > Rybchenko <[email protected]>; Olivier Matz
> > > > <[email protected]>; [email protected]; [email protected]
> > > > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/4] ethdev: add Rx offload outer UDP 
> > > > checksum definition
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2018 08:53:22 +0000
> > > > > From: "Ananyev, Konstantin" <[email protected]>
> > > > > To: Jerin Jacob <[email protected]>, "Lu, Wenzhuo"
> > > > >  <[email protected]>, "Wu, Jingjing" <[email protected]>,
> > > > >  "Iremonger, Bernard" <[email protected]>, "Mcnamara, John"
> > > > >  <[email protected]>, "Kovacevic, Marko" 
> > > > > <[email protected]>,
> > > > >  Thomas Monjalon <[email protected]>, "Yigit, Ferruh"
> > > > >  <[email protected]>, Andrew Rybchenko 
> > > > > <[email protected]>,
> > > > >  Olivier Matz <[email protected]>
> > > > > CC: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]"
> > > > >  <[email protected]>
> > > > > Subject: RE: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/4] ethdev: add Rx offload outer 
> > > > > UDP
> > > > >  checksum   definition
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi Jerin,
> > > >
> > > > Hi Konstantin,
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Introduced DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_OUTER_UDP_CKSUM Rx offload flag and
> > > > > > PKT_RX_EL4_CKSUM_BAD mbuf ol_flags to detect outer UDP checksum
> > > > > > failure.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > - To use hardware Rx outer UDP checksum offload, the user needs to
> > > > > > configure DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_OUTER_UDP_CKSUM offload flags in slowpath.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > - Driver updates the PKT_RX_EL4_CKSUM_BAD mbuf ol_flag on checksum 
> > > > > > failure
> > > > > > similar to the outer L3 PKT_RX_EIP_CKSUM_BAD flag.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <[email protected]>
> > > > >
> > > > > Looks ok to me in general.
> > > > > Just wonder is there any PMD that supports all these new features?
> > > >
> > > > octeontx2 PMD has this feature. I am planning to push the PMD for 
> > > > v19.02.
> > > > Before that I adding all the common code change to avoid the dependency.
> > >
> > > Ok, but why then ethdev/mbuf changes has to go into 18.11?
> >
> > It it is a generic change then why not? What is the real concern here?
> 
> If there is no implementation for it, how we can conclude that it is really 
> 'generic' one? :)
> My main concern is that we already have several features in rte_ethdev and 
> rte_security
> that supposed to be 'generic' but right now no-one support them.

I think, this case is pretty straight forward changes.

> I wouldn't to object about these particular features, they look reasonable to 
> me.

OK.

> But in general I think we need some better defined policy -
> about what is allowed to propagate without real evidence (particular 
> implementation)
> and what is not.

I am open for the policy definition.

> 
> >
> > > Do you plan your new PMD backward compatible with 18.11 LTS?
> >
> > Yes.
> 
> I see.
> Konstantin
> 

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