It has been possible to combine this attribute with "transfer". Doing so has been assumed to restrict the scope of matching to traffic sent by the application by virtue of the ethdev the flow rule being created through. This behaviour is now deprecated. During the transition period, one may still rely on it, but PMDs and applications are encouraged to gradually move away from this approach.

Global rte_flow_attr::ingress

It has been possible to combine this attribute with "transfer". Doing so has been assumed to restrict the scope of matching to traffic going from within the embedded switch toward the ethdev the flow rule being created through. This behaviour is deprecated. During the transition period, one may still rely on it, but PMDs and applications are encouraged to gradually move away from this approach.

Global rte_flow_copy (struct rte_flow_desc *fd, size_t len, const struct rte_flow_attr *attr, const struct rte_flow_item *items, const struct rte_flow_action *actions)

Copy an rte_flow rule description.

Class rte_flow_desc

Class rte_flow_item_phy_port

Class rte_flow_item_port_id

Global RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_PF

Global RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_PHY_PORT

Global RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_PORT_ID

Global RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_VF

Class rte_flow_item_vf

Global rte_vhost_get_queue_num (int vid)

Get the number of queues the device supports.