Hi Cristian, Thanks for your help.
If that is the case, is there any way to use the incoming port as a key for table lookup? I need to use incoming port along with some other fields of each packet as the key for my application. On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 3:09 PM, Dumitrescu, Cristian < cristian.dumitre...@intel.com> wrote: > Hi Nidhia, > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Nidhia Varghese > > Sent: Monday, April 10, 2017 8:27 AM > > To: Singh, Jasvinder <jasvinder.si...@intel.com> > > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; us...@dpdk.org > > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Working of pipeline in a given config file and > > regarding user-defined actions in IP_PIPELINE application > > > > Hi Jasvinder, > > > > Thanks for your help. > > > > What I understood from the programmer's guide is that, port action > handler > > can be assigned to each input/output port to define actions to be > executed > > on each input packet that is received by the port. But one pipeline can > > have more than one input and output ports. Actions that has to be done to > > packets coming from each port can be different even though it is in the > > same pipeline. > > Yes, this is correct, the librte_pipeline allows you to configure > independent action handlers for each input port/output port/table in the > pipeline. > > How can we define different actions for different ports in > > this case where we have more than one ports for reception or transmission > > in same pipeline? Which parameter is used to distinguish the ports? > > However, in the ip_pipeline application so far, only the pass-through > pipeline provide an example of an input port action handler, and the same > AH is set up for all input ports. If you want different AH for different > ports, you probably need to implement your own AH functions and add some > pipeline type specific parameters to the configuration file syntax in order > to assign different actions to different ports. > > > > > Thanks, > > Nidhia > > > > Regards, > Cristian > > -- Regards, Nidhia Varghese
