From: Ori Kam <or...@nvidia.com> In the current implementation, the action rte_flow_action_modify_field is not well defined for fields larger than 64 bits (for example IPv6 source) In addtion, the byte order is also not well defined.
Both of those issue should be fixed. Signed-off-by: Ori Kam <or...@nvidia.com> Acked-by: Matan Azrad <ma...@nvidia.com> --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index d9c0e65921..b530616281 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -158,3 +158,7 @@ Deprecation Notices * security: The functions ``rte_security_set_pkt_metadata`` and ``rte_security_get_userdata`` will be made inline functions and additional flags will be added in structure ``rte_security_ctx`` in DPDK 21.11. + +* ethdev: The struct ``rte_flow_action_modify_data`` will be modified + to support modifying larger fields than 64 bits. + In addition, documentation will be updated to clarify byte order. -- 2.25.1
