This patch implements a generic approach to
extract fields from the packet's header and
copying them to packet metadata. The fields
are selected at the desired offset on the basis
of the mask specified in application configuration
file. The extracted fields, for instance, can be
used to compute hash for the lookup table. This
feature exposes more flexibility to the users as
they will be able to employ new protocol headers
and specify the required fields to be extracted.
The above feature has been implemented as port_in
action handler of the passthrough pipeline. The
example of the configuration file for passthrough
pipeline is as below;
[PIPELINE1]
type = PASS-THROUGH
core = 1
pktq_in = RXQ0.0 RXQ1.0 RXQ2.0 RXQ3.0
pktq_out = TXQ0.0 TXQ1.0 TXQ2.0 TXQ3.0
dma_size = 16
dma_dst_offset = 64
dma_src_offset = 150
dma_src_mask = 00FF0000FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
dma_hash_offset = 80
Signed-off-by: Jasvinder Singh <jasvinder.singh@intel.com>
Acked-by: Cristian Dumitrescu <cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com>
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