Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] net/iavf: support flex desc metadata extraction

> -Original Message- > From: Wang, Haiyue > Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 4:11 PM > To: Guo, Jia ; Wu, Jingjing ; > Zhang, Qi Z ; Xing, Beilei > Cc: dev@dpdk.org > Subject: RE: [PATCH v3] net/iavf: support flex desc metadata extraction > > > -Original Message- > > From: G

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] net/iavf: support flex desc metadata extraction

> -Original Message- > From: Guo, Jia > Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 15:53 > To: Wu, Jingjing ; Zhang, Qi Z ; > Xing, Beilei > > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Wang, Haiyue ; Guo, Jia > > Subject: [PATCH v3] net/iavf: support flex desc metadata extraction > > Enable metadata extraction for

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] net/iavf: support flex desc metadata extraction

Enable metadata extraction for flexible descriptors in AVF, that would allow network function directly get metadata without additional parsing which would reduce the CPU cost for VFs. The enabling metadata extractions involve the metadata of VLAN/IPv4/IPv6/IPv6-FLOW/TCP/MPLS flexible descriptors, a