Two new pipeline API functions have been added to the library. The packet
hijack API function can be called by any input/output port or table action
handler to remove selected packets from the burst of packets read from one
of the pipeline input ports and then either send these packets out through
any pipeline output port or drop them.
Another packet drop API function can be used by the pipeline action
handlers (port in/out, table) to drop the packets selected using packet
mask. This function updates the drop statistics counters correctly.
Signed-off-by: Jasvinder Singh <jasvinder.singh@intel.com>
Acked-by: Cristian Dumitrescu <cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com>
Currently, there is no mechanism that allows the pipeline ports (in/out)
and table action handlers to override the default forwarding decision
(as previously configured per input port or in the table entry). The port
(in/out) and table action handler prototypes have been changed to allow
pipeline action handlers (port in/out, table) to remove the selected
packets from the further pipeline processing and to take full ownership
for these packets. This feature will be helpful to implement functions
such as exception handling (e.g. TTL =0), load balancing etc.
Signed-off-by: Jasvinder Singh <jasvinder.singh@intel.com>
Acked-by: Cristian Dumitrescu <cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com>
This patch relates to ABI change proposed for librte_port. Macros to
access the packet meta-data stored within the packet buffer has been
adjusted to cover the packet mbuf structure.
The LIBABIVER number is incremented.
Signed-off-by: Fan Zhang <roy.fan.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Cristian Dumitrescu <cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com>
The mbuf structure already contains a pointer to the beginning of the
buffer (m->buf_addr). It is not needed to use 8 bytes again to store
another pointer to the beginning of the data.
Using a 16 bits unsigned integer is enough as we know that a mbuf is
never longer than 64KB. We gain 6 bytes in the structure thanks to
this modification.
Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
* Updated to apply to latest on mainline.
* Disabled vector PMD in config as it relies heavily on the mbuf layout
This will be re-enabled in a subsequent commit once vPMD has been
reworked to take account of mbuf changes.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
The rte_pktmbuf structure was initially included in the rte_mbuf
structure. This was needed when there was 2 types of mbuf (ctrl and
packet). As the control mbuf has been removed, we can merge the
rte_pktmbuf into the rte_mbuf structure.
Advantages of doing this:
- the access to mbuf fields is easier (ex: m->data instead of m->pkt.data)
- make the structure more consistent: for instance, there was no reason
to have the ol_flags field in rte_mbuf
- it will allow a deeper reorganization of the rte_mbuf structure in the
next commits, allowing to gain several bytes in it
Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
[Bruce: updated for latest code and new example apps]
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
Avoid building tests if their counterparts are not selected in config.
This has the nice side effect of fixing build errors when disabling parts of
the dpdk.
Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Unit tests for Packet Framework libraries.
Signed-off-by: Cristian Dumitrescu <cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com>
Tested-by: Waterman Cao <waterman.cao@intel.com>
Acked-by: Pablo de Lara Guarch <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
Acked by: Ivan Boule <ivan.boule@6wind.com>
