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        "From": "Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>",
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        "Subject": "[PATCH v3 0/3] *ethdev: sharing indirect actions between port*",
        "Date": "Fri, 10 Feb 2023 17:17:06 +0200",
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    "content": "The RTE Flow API implements the concept of shared objects,\nknown as indirect actions (RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_INDIRECT).\nAn application can create the indirect action of desired\ntype and configuration with rte_flow_action_handle_create\ncall and then specify the obtained action handle in multiple\nflows.\n\nThe initial concept supposes the action handle has strict\nattachment to the port it was created on and to be used\nexclusively in the flows being installed on the port.\n\nNowadays the multipath network topologies are quite common,\npackets belonging to the same connection might arrive and\nbe sent over multiple ports, and there is the raising demand\nto handle these \"spread\" connections. To fulfil this demand\nit is proposed to extend indirect action sharing across the\nmultiple ports. This kind of sharing would be extremely useful\nfor the meters and counters, allowing to manage the single\nconnection over the multiple ports.\n\nThis cross-port object sharing is hard to implement in\ngeneric way merely with software on the upper layers, but\ncan be provided by the driver over the single hardware\ninstance, where  multiple ports reside on the same physical\nNIC and share the same hardware context.\n\nTo allow this action sharing application should specify\nthe \"host port\" during flow configuring to claim the intention\nto share the indirect actions. All indirect actions reside within\n\"host port\" context and can be shared in flows being installed\non the host port and on all the ports referencing this one.\n\nIf sharing between host and port being configured is not supported\nthe configuration should be rejected with error. There might be\nmultiple independent (mutual exclusive) sharing domains with\ndedicated host and referencing ports.\n\nTo manage the shared indirect action any port from sharing domain\ncan be specified. To share or not the created action is up to\napplication, no API change is needed.\n\nSigned-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>\n\nViacheslav Ovsiienko (3):\n  ethdev: sharing indirect actions between ports\n  app/testpmd: add host port parameter into flow config\n  app/testpmd: add shared indirect action support\n\n app/test-pmd/cmdline_flow.c                 | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++-\n doc/guides/rel_notes/release_23_03.rst      |  6 ++\n doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/testpmd_funcs.rst |  4 +-\n lib/ethdev/rte_flow.c                       |  6 ++\n lib/ethdev/rte_flow.h                       | 11 ++++\n 5 files changed, 88 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)"
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