On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 15:07:37 +0100 Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> wrote:
> 18/10/2020 14:03, g...@marvell.com: > > From: Guy Kaneti <g...@marvell.com> > > > > The L3 Forwarding with Regex application is a simple example of > > packet processing using DPDK Regex framework. > > The application performs L3 LPM based forwarding while using > > Regex framework for pre-filtering decision. > > The techboard decision is a bit different of this l3fwd-regex: > " > - TB agreed to have an example application that exercises the regex device > and network device as a separate application. > - The example shall be used for both Benchmark and functional verification of > regex in the forwarding path. > - Based on the discussions, it is agreed that l3fwd might not be the real use > case to consider as regex + network application > - Instead, TB recommends having the Deep packet inspection style application > to showcase the regex + networking use case. > - Following is the simple DPI style application definition, which can be > considered as a candidate, as an example of regex + network application > 1) Create or import a rule database. > - Rule database will have an index as rule_id and pattern to search > 2) Create or import rule_id to the action table > - Action could be -1 for the drop, 0 .. N for a specific port > to forward upon the match > 3) Enqueue all the packet from ethdev to regexdev > 4) If there is a match, then do the action based on the table created in step > 2 using struct rte_regexdev_match::rule_id > 5) If there is no match, forward back to the source port > " > > http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-November/191301.html Marking original example as "Changes requested" Please resubmit example based on the above feedback.
