> On 12/5/2023 2:54 AM, Chaoyong He wrote: > > Add the very basic rte_flow support for corenic firmware. > > > > --- > > v2: > > * Update the 'nfp.ini' document. > > * Rebase to the latest main branch. > > --- > > > > Chaoyong He (11): > > net/nfp: move some source files > > net/nfp: add the structures and functions for flow offload > > net/nfp: add the control message channel > > net/nfp: support flow API for CoreNIC firmware > > net/nfp: support Ethernet flow item > > net/nfp: support drop flow action > > net/nfp: support IPv4 flow item > > net/nfp: support IPv6 flow item > > net/nfp: support TCP/UDP/SCTP flow items > > net/nfp: support MARK flow action > > net/nfp: support QUEUE flow action > > > > Series applied to dpdk-next-net/main, thanks. > > > Flower firmware already supports flow API, right? Correct.
> What is the difference of these two firmware? Are they both actively used? The flower firmware aims to support as much flow APIs (and match patterns/actions)as possible, and the corenic firmware will only support very limited ones (just enough) to some strict user case, like flow steering, bond offload ...
