On Mon, 1 Jun 2026 04:33:42 +0000 "Ajmera, Megha" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > For my own curiosity: how user can define his own PROG action? > > Is it supposed to be programmed and uplodaded to the NIC by some external > > tool > > (P4 compiler)? > > Or does it refer to the set of some predefined functions that given firmware > > supports? > > Or ... ? > > Sorry for probably naive questions, but I found is nearly zero information > > inside > > DPDK docs about how PROG action supposed to work. > > PROG in rte_flow is currently a vendor-defined action interface (name + > arguments), not a generic DPDK programming model by itself. Supporting vendor specific extensions like this should be actively discouraged. There is a reason DPDK succeeded and OpenDataplane did not.
