On 12/11/2023 1:42 AM, Chaoyong He wrote: >> 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 ... >
I see, thanks for the information.
