Hi, > -----Original Message----- > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Olivier MATZ > Sent: Friday, March 04, 2016 9:29 AM > To: Zoltan Kiss; dev at dpdk.org > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] rte_mbuf's packet_type field > > Hi Zoltan, > > On 03/01/2016 06:15 PM, Zoltan Kiss wrote: > > I have a quick question about this field: how do I know if the > > underlying PMD supports a particular protocol parsing. Let's say I want > > to check for SCTP packets, looking at this field tells me EITHER the > > packet is SCTP (or not), OR that the hardware has no idea about SCTP. Is > > there a way to figure that support out? > > I'm not aware of such a feature. I guess you want to avoid to re-check > all protocols in software if the hardware supports some of them and > did not recognize them? In that case it may be interesting, but it would > result in a lot of feature flags.
Nothing in the mainline, but there is a patches in-flight: http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/10921/ Konstantin > > Regards, > Olivier
