Hi, On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 4:56 AM, Ananyev, Konstantin < konstantin.ananyev at intel.com> wrote:
> Yes, right now, libtre_acl to work correctly first field has to be 1B long > and all subsequent grouped into sets of 4 consecutive bytes. > I thought we have it documented into our PG, ACL section: > http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/prog_guide/packet_classif_access_ctrl.html > Though re-reading it again: > "For performance reasons, the inner loop of the search function is > unrolled to process four input bytes at a time. This requires the input to > be grouped into sets of 4 consecutive bytes. The loop processes the first > input byte as part of the setup and then subsequent bytes must be in groups > of 4 consecutive bytes." > It probably not very clear and need to be explained in more details. > Will update the doc. > > Konstantin > > While improving API documentation would be great, enforcing these constraints on user defined fields in rte_acl_build(?) also (return an error if constraints are not met) would be even better. Stevan
