subject:"\[dpdk\-dev\] \[PATCH v8 00\/18\] unified packet type"

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 00/18] unified packet type

2015-07-02 Thread Liu, Yong

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[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 00/18] unified packet type

2015-06-23 Thread Ananyev, Konstantin

> -Original Message- > From: Zhang, Helin > Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 2:50 AM > To: dev at dpdk.org > Cc: Cao, Waterman; Liang, Cunming; Liu, Jijiang; Ananyev, Konstantin; > Richardson, Bruce; yongwang at vmware.com; > olivier.matz at 6wind.com; Wu, Jingjing; Zhang, Helin > Subject: [

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 00/18] unified packet type

2015-06-23 Thread Helin Zhang

Currently only 6 bits which are stored in ol_flags are used to indicate the packet types. This is not enough, as some NIC hardware can recognize quite a lot of packet types, e.g i40e hardware can recognize more than 150 packet types. Hiding those packet types hides hardware offload capabilities whi