app/testpmd: update raw flow to take hex input

  From: Nipun Gupta <nipun.gupta@nxp.com>

This patch enables method to provide key and mask for raw rules
to be provided as hexadecimal values. There is new parameter
pattern_mask added to support this.

Signed-off-by: Nipun Gupta <nipun.gupta@nxp.com>
---
 app/test-pmd/cmdline_flow.c                 | 15 +++++++++++++++
 doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/testpmd_funcs.rst | 13 +++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+)
  

On 1/11/2022 5:05 AM, nipun.gupta@nxp.com wrote:
> From: Nipun Gupta <nipun.gupta@nxp.com>
> 
> This patch enables method to provide key and mask for raw rules
> to be provided as hexadecimal values. There is new parameter
> pattern_mask added to support this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nipun Gupta <nipun.gupta@nxp.com>

Looks good to me.

Ori, any objection/comment?

> ---
>   app/test-pmd/cmdline_flow.c                 | 15 +++++++++++++++
>   doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/testpmd_funcs.rst | 13 +++++++++++++
>   2 files changed, 28 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/app/test-pmd/cmdline_flow.c b/app/test-pmd/cmdline_flow.c
> index bbe3dc0115..cfa68abc40 100644
> --- a/app/test-pmd/cmdline_flow.c
> +++ b/app/test-pmd/cmdline_flow.c
> @@ -166,6 +166,7 @@ enum index {
>   	ITEM_RAW_OFFSET,
>   	ITEM_RAW_LIMIT,
>   	ITEM_RAW_PATTERN,
> +	ITEM_RAW_PATTERN_HEX,
>   	ITEM_ETH,
>   	ITEM_ETH_DST,
>   	ITEM_ETH_SRC,
> @@ -1107,6 +1108,7 @@ static const enum index item_raw[] = {
>   	ITEM_RAW_OFFSET,
>   	ITEM_RAW_LIMIT,
>   	ITEM_RAW_PATTERN,
> +	ITEM_RAW_PATTERN_HEX,
>   	ITEM_NEXT,
>   	ZERO,
>   };
> @@ -2664,6 +2666,19 @@ static const struct token token_list[] = {
>   			     ARGS_ENTRY_ARB(sizeof(struct rte_flow_item_raw),
>   					    ITEM_RAW_PATTERN_SIZE)),
>   	},
> +	[ITEM_RAW_PATTERN_HEX] = {
> +		.name = "pattern_hex",
> +		.help = "hex string to look for",
> +		.next = NEXT(item_raw,
> +			     NEXT_ENTRY(COMMON_HEX),
> +			     NEXT_ENTRY(ITEM_PARAM_IS,
> +					ITEM_PARAM_SPEC,
> +					ITEM_PARAM_MASK)),
> +		.args = ARGS(ARGS_ENTRY(struct rte_flow_item_raw, pattern),
> +			     ARGS_ENTRY(struct rte_flow_item_raw, length),
> +			     ARGS_ENTRY_ARB(sizeof(struct rte_flow_item_raw),
> +					    ITEM_RAW_PATTERN_SIZE)),
> +	},
>   	[ITEM_ETH] = {
>   		.name = "eth",
>   		.help = "match Ethernet header",
> diff --git a/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/testpmd_funcs.rst b/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/testpmd_funcs.rst
> index 44228cd7d2..68c216c805 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/testpmd_funcs.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/testpmd_funcs.rst
> @@ -3634,6 +3634,7 @@ This section lists supported pattern items and their attributes, if any.
>     - ``offset {integer}``: absolute or relative offset for pattern.
>     - ``limit {unsigned}``: search area limit for start of pattern.
>     - ``pattern {string}``: byte string to look for.
> +  - ``pattern_hex {string}``: byte string (provided in hexadecimal) to look for.
>   
>   - ``eth``: match Ethernet header.
>   
> @@ -5080,6 +5081,18 @@ PPPoL2TPv2oUDP RSS rules can be created by the following commands::
>    testpmd> flow create 0 ingress pattern eth / ipv6 / udp / l2tpv2 / ppp / ipv6
>             / end actions rss types ipv6 end queues end / end
>   
> +Sample RAW rule
> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> +
> +A RAW rule can be creted as following using ``pattern_hex`` key and mask.
> +

s/creted/created/

> +::
> +
> +    testpmd> flow create 0 group 0 priority 1 ingress pattern raw relative is 0 search is 0 offset
> +             is 0 limit is 0 pattern_hex spec 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000a0a0a0a
> +             pattern_hex mask 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000ffffffff / end actions
> +             queue index 4 / end
> +
>   BPF Functions
>   --------------
>
  

On 1/25/2022 12:42 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> On 1/11/2022 5:05 AM, nipun.gupta@nxp.com wrote:
>> From: Nipun Gupta <nipun.gupta@nxp.com>
>>
>> This patch enables method to provide key and mask for raw rules
>> to be provided as hexadecimal values. There is new parameter
>> pattern_mask added to support this.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Nipun Gupta <nipun.gupta@nxp.com>
> 
> Looks good to me.
> 
> Ori, any objection/comment?
> 

It seems there is no objection, proceeding with patch.

Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>

Applied to dpdk-next-net/main, thanks.


<...>

>> +Sample RAW rule
>> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> +
>> +A RAW rule can be creted as following using ``pattern_hex`` key and mask.
>> +
> 
> s/creted/created/
> 

fixed while applying