> -----Original Message----- > From: Nélio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranje...@6wind.com> > Sent: Monday, April 16, 2018 3:29 PM > To: Xueming(Steven) Li <xuemi...@mellanox.com> > Cc: Shahaf Shuler <shah...@mellanox.com>; dev@dpdk.org; Olivier Matz > <olivier.m...@6wind.com>; Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarg...@6wind.com> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 04/14] net/mlx5: support Rx tunnel type > identification > > On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 12:57:58PM +0000, Xueming(Steven) Li wrote: > > +Adrien > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Nélio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranje...@6wind.com> > > > Sent: Friday, April 13, 2018 9:03 PM > > > To: Xueming(Steven) Li <xuemi...@mellanox.com> > > > Cc: Shahaf Shuler <shah...@mellanox.com>; dev@dpdk.org; Olivier Matz > > > <olivier.m...@6wind.com> > > > Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 04/14] net/mlx5: support Rx tunnel type > > > identification > > > > > > +Olivier, > > > > > > On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 07:20:13PM +0800, Xueming Li wrote: > > > > This patch introduced tunnel type identification based on flow rules. > > > > If flows of multiple tunnel types built on same queue, > > > > RTE_PTYPE_TUNNEL_MASK will be returned, user application could use > > > > bits in flow mark as tunnel type identifier. > > > > > > For an application it will mean the packet embed all tunnel types > > > defined in DPDK, to make such thing you need a > > > RTE_PTYPE_TUNNEL_UNKNOWN which does not exists currently. > > > > There was a RTE_PTYPE_TUNNEL_UNKNOWN definition, but removed due to > discussion. > > So I think it good to add it in the patchset of reviewed by Adrien. > > Agreed, > > > > > > Even with it, the application still needs to parse the packet to > > > discover which tunnel the packet embed, is there any benefit having > > > such bit? Not so sure. > > > > With a tunnel flag, checksum status represent inner checksum. > > Not sure this is generic enough, MLX5 behaves as this, but how behaves > other NICs? It should have specific bits for inner checksum if all NIC > don't have the same behavior.
From my understanding, if outer checksum invalid, the packet can't be received as a tunneled packet, but a normal packet, thus checksum flags always result of inner for a valid tunneled packet. > > > Setting flow mark for different flow type could save time of parsing > tunnel. > > Thanks, > > -- > Nélio Laranjeiro > 6WIND
