A user can provide a hint which will be attached to the packet and written to the CQE on receive. This can be used as a way to offload operations into the HW, for example parsing a packet which is a tunneled packet, and if so, pass 0x1 as the hint. The software can use that hint to decapsulate the packet and parse only the inner headers thus saving CPU cycles.
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| @@ -157,6 +157,7 @@ enum mlx5_ib_create_flow_attrs { · 156 unmodified lines | ||
| 157 | 157 | MLX5_IB_ATTR_CREATE_FLOW_DEST_DEVX, |
| 158 | 158 | MLX5_IB_ATTR_CREATE_FLOW_MATCHER, |
| 159 | 159 | MLX5_IB_ATTR_CREATE_FLOW_ARR_FLOW_ACTIONS, |
| 160 | + MLX5_IB_ATTR_CREATE_FLOW_TAG, | |
| 160 | 161 | }; |
| 161 | 162 | |
| 162 | 163 | enum mlx5_ib_destoy_flow_attrs { |