From: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavat...@marvell.com> Add new offload flags ``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_RSS`` and ``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_FLOW_MARK``. Add new function ``rte_eth_dev_set_supported_ptypes`` to allow application to set specific ptypes to be updated in ``rte_mbuf::packet_type``
Signed-off-by: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavat...@marvell.com> Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybche...@solarflare.com> Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jer...@marvell.com> Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agra...@nxp.com> --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 37b8592b6..e4e2a85d7 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -78,3 +78,26 @@ Deprecation Notices to set new power environment if power environment was already initialized. In this case the function will return -1 unless the environment is unset first (using ``rte_power_unset_env``). Other function usage scenarios will not change. + +* ethdev: New offload flags ``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_RSS_HASH`` and ``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_FLOW_MARK`` + will be added in 19.11. + This will allow application to enable or disable PMDs from updating + ``rte_mbuf::hash::rss`` and ``rte_mbuf::hash::fdir`` respectively. + This scheme will allow PMDs to avoid writes to ``rte_mbuf`` fields on Rx and + thereby improve Rx performance if application wishes do so. + In 19.11 PMDs will still update the fields even when the offloads are not + enabled. + +* ethdev: New function ``rte_eth_dev_set_supported_ptypes`` will be added in + 19.11. + This will allow application to request PMD to set specific ptypes defined + through ``rte_eth_dev_set_supported_ptypes`` in ``rte_mbuf::packet_type``. + If application doesn't want any ptype information it can call + ``rte_eth_dev_set_supported_ptypes(ethdev_id, RTE_PTYPE_UNKNOWN)`` + If application doesn't call ``rte_eth_dev_set_supported_ptypes`` PMD can + return ``rte_mbuf::packet_type`` with ``rte_eth_dev_get_supported_ptypes``. + If application is interested only in L2/L3 layer, it can inform the PMD to update + ``rte_mbuf::packet_type`` with L2/L3 ptype by calling + ``rte_eth_dev_set_supported_ptypes(ethdev_id, RTE_PTYPE_L2_MASK | RTE_PTYPE_L3_MASK)``. + This scheme will allow PMDs to avoid writes to ``rte_mbuf`` fields on Rx and + thereby improve Rx performance if application wishes do so. -- 2.17.1
