On 10/13/2021 7:45 PM, Viacheslav Ovsiienko wrote:
The generic modify field flow action introduced in [1] has
some issues related to the immediate source operand:

   - immediate source can be presented either as an unsigned
     64-bit integer or pointer to data pattern in memory.
     There was no explicit pointer field defined in the union

   - the byte ordering for 64-bit integer was not specified.
     Many fields have lesser lengths and byte ordering
     is crucial.

   - how the bit offset is applied to the immediate source
     field was not defined and documented

   - 64-bit integer size is not enough to provide MAC and
     IPv6 addresses

In order to cover the issues and exclude any ambiguities
the following is done:

   - introduce the explicit pointer field
     in rte_flow_action_modify_data structure

   - replace the 64-bit unsigned integer with 16-byte array

   - update the modify field flow action documentation

Appropriate commit message has been removed.

[1] commit 73b68f4c54a0 ("ethdev: introduce generic modify flow action")
[2] RFC: 
http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20210910141609.8410-1-viachesl...@nvidia.com/
[3] Deprecation notice: 
http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20210803085754.643180-1-or...@nvidia.com/
[4] v1 - 
http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/cover/20211001195223.31909-1-viachesl...@nvidia.com/
[5] v2 - 
http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20211010234547.1495-2-viachesl...@nvidia.com/
[6] v3 - 
http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/cover/20211012080631.28504-1-viachesl...@nvidia.com/
[7] v4 - 
http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/cover/20211012104919.13145-1-viachesl...@nvidia.com/
[8] v5 - 
http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20211012202557.30295-2-viachesl...@nvidia.com/

v2: - comments addressed
     - documentation updated
     - typos fixed
     - mlx5 PMD updated

v3: - comments addressed
     - documentation updated
     - typos fixed

v4: - removed errorneously added Ack by Ori K. for mlx5 patch
     - mlx5 patch updated - bug fixes and cleanup

v5: - fix compilation issue with unused variable in mlx5

v6: - fix compilation issue with unused variable in mlx5

Viacheslav Ovsiienko (5):
   ethdev: update modify field flow action
   ethdev: fix missed experimental tag for modify field action
   app/testpmd: update modify field flow action support
   app/testpmd: fix hex string parser in flow commands
   net/mlx5: update modify field action


Series applied to dpdk-next-net/main, thanks.

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