Some DPDK applications wrongly assume these requirements:
- no hotplug, i.e. ports are never detached
- all allocated ports are available to the application
Such application assume a valid port index is in the range [0..count[.
There are three consequences when using such wrong design:
- new ports having an index higher than the port count won't be valid
- old ports being detached (RTE_ETH_DEV_UNUSED) can be valid
Such mistake will be less common with growing hotplug awareness.
All applications and examples inside this repository - except testpmd -
must be fixed to use the function rte_eth_dev_is_valid_port.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Some DPDK applications wrongly assume these requirements:
- no hotplug, i.e. ports are never detached
- all allocated ports are available to the application
Such application iterates over ports by its own mean.
The most common pattern is to request the port count and
assume ports with index in the range [0..count[ can be used.
There are three consequences when using such wrong design:
- new ports having an index higher than the port count won't be seen
- old ports being detached (RTE_ETH_DEV_UNUSED) can be seen as ghosts
- failsafe sub-devices (RTE_ETH_DEV_DEFERRED) will be seen by the application
Such mistake will be less common with growing hotplug awareness.
All applications and examples inside this repository - except testpmd -
must be fixed to use the iterator RTE_ETH_FOREACH_DEV.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
This patch removes table id parameter from all the flow
classify apis to reduce the complexity alongwith some code
cleanup.
The validate api is exposed as public api to allow user
to validate the flow before adding it to the classifier.
Signed-off-by: Jasvinder Singh <jasvinder.singh@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
The Flow Classify Library Programmers Guide documents
librte_flow_classify.
The Flow Classify Sample Application Guide documents the
flow_classify sample application which is used to
demonstrate the use of the Flow Classify Library,
librte_flow_classify.
Signed-off-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
