[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v10 02/19] mbuf: add definitions of unified packet types

2015-07-15 Thread Olivier MATZ
On 07/09/2015 06:31 PM, Helin Zhang wrote: > As there are only 6 bit flags in ol_flags for indicating packet > types, which is not enough to describe all the possible packet > types hardware can recognize. For example, i40e hardware can > recognize more than 150 packet types. Unified packet type is

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v10 02/19] mbuf: add definitions of unified packet types

2015-07-10 Thread Helin Zhang
As there are only 6 bit flags in ol_flags for indicating packet types, which is not enough to describe all the possible packet types hardware can recognize. For example, i40e hardware can recognize more than 150 packet types. Unified packet type is composed of L2 type, L3 type, L4 type, tunnel type