In some cases application may receive a packet that should have been
received by the kernel. In this case application uses KNI or other means
to transfer the packet to the kernel.
With bifurcated driver we can have a rule to route packets matching
a pattern (example: IPv4 packets) to the DPDK application and the rest
of the traffic will be received by the kernel.
But if we want to receive most of the traffic in DPDK except specific
pattern (example: ICMP packets) that should be processed by the kernel,
then it's easier to re-route these packets with a single rule.
This commit introduces new rte_flow action which allows application to
re-route packets directly to the kernel without software involvement.
Add new testpmd rte_flow action 'send_to_kernel'. The application
may use this action to route the packet to the kernel while still
in the HW.
Example with testpmd command:
flow create 0 ingress priority 0 group 1 pattern eth type spec 0x0800
type mask 0xffff / end actions send_to_kernel / end
Signed-off-by: Michael Savisko <michaelsav@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Ori Kam <orika@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru>
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