Introduce new Flow API JUMP_TO_TABLE_INDEX action. It allows bypassing a hierarchy of groups and going directly to a specified flow table. That gives a user the flexibility to jump between different priorities in a group and eliminates the need to do a table lookup in the group hierarchy. The JUMP_TO_TABLE_INDEX action forwards a packet to the specified rule index inside the index-based flow table.
The current index-based flow table doesn't do any matching on the packet and executes the actions immediately. Add a new index-based flow table with pattern matching. The JUMP_TO_TABLE_INDEX can redirect a packet to another matching criteria at the specified index in this case. RFC: https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20240822202753.3856703-1-akozy...@nvidia.com/ v2: added trace point to flow insertion by index functions. Alexander Kozyrev (7): ethdev: add insertion by index with pattern app/testpmd: add index with pattern insertion type ethdev: add flow rule insertion by index with pattern app/testpmd: add insertion by index with pattern option ethdev: add jump to table index action app/testpmd: add jump to table index action ethdev: add trace points to flow insertion by index app/test-pmd/cmdline_flow.c | 44 +++++++++++++- app/test-pmd/config.c | 22 +++++-- app/test-pmd/testpmd.h | 2 +- doc/guides/prog_guide/rte_flow.rst | 20 +++++++ doc/guides/rel_notes/release_24_11.rst | 13 +++++ lib/ethdev/ethdev_trace.h | 44 ++++++++++++++ lib/ethdev/ethdev_trace_points.c | 6 ++ lib/ethdev/rte_flow.c | 72 ++++++++++++++++++++++- lib/ethdev/rte_flow.h | 81 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ lib/ethdev/rte_flow_driver.h | 14 +++++ lib/ethdev/version.map | 1 + 11 files changed, 309 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) -- 2.18.2
