On 31 March 2015 at 10:56, Savolainen, Petri (Nokia - FI/Espoo) < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Alex, > > > > Could you explain a bit more what you mean with extracts here. Detailed > classification (packet field + mask/range => queue / set of queues) would > be still handled with classification API. This API would offer an easy way > to spread typical flows (e.g. 5-tuple) into multiple queues (same queue > type, priority, sync, group). > Yes I was thinking that hash-based distribution is already supported (or at least the rudiments are in place to support it) by the classification API. Isn't this pktio support redundant? Why have it in both places? -- Ola > > > -Petri > > > > > > *From:* ext Alexandru Badicioiu [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 31, 2015 11:37 AM > *To:* Savolainen, Petri (Nokia - FI/Espoo) > *Cc:* LNG ODP Mailman List > *Subject:* Re: [lng-odp] [RFC 5/8] api: packet_io: added packet input > queue API definitions > > > > Hi Petri, > > I think it would be useful (for hardware which supports) to be able to > specify generic packet extracts in addition to protocol related fields. > While hash works well for uniform distribution, having generic extracts > from the packet helps in directly selecting the input queue. > > > > Thanks, > > Alex > > _______________________________________________ > lng-odp mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/lng-odp > >
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