rte_acl_field_def(3)

💖 rte_acl_field_def 💖

okay bestie, welcome to rte_acl_field_def(3) — it lives in the Library Functions Manual section 3, and it's genuinely such a cute little struct. sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, we're doing this.

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✨ NAME ✨

rte_acl_field_def — no cap, that's the whole name 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <rte_acl.h>

🌸 Data Fields 🌸

here's the whole squad, in order:

uint8_t type
uint8_t size
uint8_t field_index
uint8_t input_index
uint32_t offset

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👑 Detailed Description 👑

so this is the ACL Field definition. periodt. every single field in an ACL rule gets its own little definition buddy, and that definition is doing five things: it says the type of the field, its size, its offset in the input buffer, the field index, and the input index. she's booked and busy 💅

now the tea about performance 🍵 — for performance reasons, the inner loop of the search function is unrolled to process four input bytes at a time. and because of that, your input has to be grouped into sets of 4 consecutive bytes. the loop processes the first input byte as part of the setup, and then all the subsequent bytes must be in groups of 4 consecutive bytes. so like, it's giving "alignment matters bestie", fr fr. 🙈

Definition at line 52 of file rte_acl.h.

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🎀 Field Documentation 🎀

💜 uint8_t type

type — it's RTE_ACL_FIELD_TYPE_*. yes, the star means there's a whole family of them, go look them up iykyk ✨

Definition at line 53 of file rte_acl.h.

🩷 uint8_t size

size of field, and it can be 1, 2, 4, or 8. those are the only options, don't try to be clever 🫶

Definition at line 54 of file rte_acl.h.

🦄 uint8_t field_index

index of field inside the rule. she knows her place 💅

Definition at line 55 of file rte_acl.h.

⭐ uint8_t input_index

0-N input index. so it starts at zero and goes up, no cap.

Definition at line 56 of file rte_acl.h.

🌈 uint32_t offset

offset to start of field. basically: where does this field actually begin ✨

Definition at line 57 of file rte_acl.h.

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🖊️ Author 🖊️

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okay that's the whole page bestie, you ate that. go forth and define your fields 💅✨

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