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    "date": "2018-06-22T09:56:02",
    "name": "[RFC,0/3] ethdev: add IP address and TCP/UDP port rewrite actions to flow API",
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        "name": "Rahul Lakkireddy",
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            "date": "2018-06-22T09:56:02",
            "name": "ethdev: add IP address and TCP/UDP port rewrite actions to flow API",
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            "from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1])\n\tby dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD2811BB12;\n\tFri, 22 Jun 2018 11:57:08 +0200 (CEST)",
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        "From": "Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com>",
        "To": "dev@dpdk.org",
        "Cc": "shaguna@chelsio.com, indranil@chelsio.com, nirranjan@chelsio.com",
        "Date": "Fri, 22 Jun 2018 15:26:02 +0530",
        "Message-Id": "<cover.1529650435.git.rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com>",
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        "Subject": "[dpdk-dev] [RFC 0/3] ethdev: add IP address and TCP/UDP port\n\trewrite actions to flow API",
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    "content": "This series of patches add support for actions:\n- OF_SET_NW_IPV4_SRC - set a new IPv4 source address.\n- OF_SET_NW_IPV4_DST - set a new IPv4 destination address.\n- OF_SET_NW_IPV6_SRC - set a new IPv6 source address.\n- OF_SET_NW_IPV6_DST - set a new IPv6 destination address.\n- OF_SET_TP_SRC - set a new TCP/UDP source port number.\n- OF_SET_TP_DST - set a new TCP/UDP destination port number.\n\nThese actions are useful in Network Address Translation use case\nto edit IP address and TCP/UDP port numbers before switching\nthe packets out to the destination device port.\n\nThe IP address and TCP/UDP port rewrite actions are based on\nOFPAT_SET_NW_SRC, OFPAT_SET_NW_DST, OFPAT_SET_TP_SRC, and\nOFPAT_SET_TP_DST actions from OpenFlow Specification [1].\n\nPatch 1 adds support for IP address rewrite to rte_flow and testpmd.\n\nPatch 2 adds support for TCP/UDP port rewrite to rte_flow and testpmd.\n\nPatch 3 shows CXGBE PMD example to offload these actions to hardware.\n\nFeedback and suggestions will be much appreciated.\n\nThanks,\nRahul\n\n[1] http://www.opennetworking.org/images/openflow-switch-v1.5.1.pdf\n\nShagun Agrawal (3):\n  ethdev: add flow api actions to modify IP addresses\n  ethdev: add flow api actions to modify TCP/UDP port numbers\n  net/cxgbe: add flow actions to modify IP and TCP/UDP port address\n\n app/test-pmd/cmdline_flow.c                 | 150 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\n app/test-pmd/config.c                       |  12 +++\n doc/guides/prog_guide/rte_flow.rst          | 102 +++++++++++++++++++\n doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/testpmd_funcs.rst |  24 +++++\n drivers/net/cxgbe/base/common.h             |   1 +\n drivers/net/cxgbe/base/t4fw_interface.h     |  50 ++++++++++\n drivers/net/cxgbe/cxgbe_filter.c            |  23 ++++-\n drivers/net/cxgbe/cxgbe_filter.h            |  26 ++++-\n drivers/net/cxgbe/cxgbe_flow.c              | 127 +++++++++++++++++++++++\n drivers/net/cxgbe/cxgbe_main.c              |  10 ++\n lib/librte_ethdev/rte_flow.c                |  12 +++\n lib/librte_ethdev/rte_flow.h                |  92 +++++++++++++++++\n 12 files changed, 625 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)"
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