+ * A packet can be identified by hardware as different flow types. Different
+ * NIC hardware may support different flow types.
+ * Basically, the NIC hardware identifies the flow type as deep protocol as
+ * possible, and exclusively. For example, if a packet is identified as
+ * 'RTE_ETH_FLOW_NONFRAG_IPV4_TCP', it will not be any of other flow types,
+ * though it is an actual IPV4 packet.
+ * Note that the flow types are used to define RSS offload types.
+ */
+#define RTE_ETH_FLOW_UNKNOWN 0
+#define RTE_ETH_FLOW_RAW 1
+#define RTE_ETH_FLOW_IPV4 2
+#define RTE_ETH_FLOW_FRAG_IPV4 3
+#define RTE_ETH_FLOW_NONFRAG_IPV4_TCP 4
+#define RTE_ETH_FLOW_NONFRAG_IPV4_UDP 5
+#define RTE_ETH_FLOW_NONFRAG_IPV4_SCTP 6
+#define RTE_ETH_FLOW_NONFRAG_IPV4_OTHER 7
+#define RTE_ETH_FLOW_IPV6 8
+#define RTE_ETH_FLOW_FRAG_IPV6 9
+#define RTE_ETH_FLOW_NONFRAG_IPV6_TCP 10
+#define RTE_ETH_FLOW_NONFRAG_IPV6_UDP 11
+#define RTE_ETH_FLOW_NONFRAG_IPV6_SCTP 12
+#define RTE_ETH_FLOW_NONFRAG_IPV6_OTHER 13
+#define RTE_ETH_FLOW_L2_PAYLOAD 14
+#define RTE_ETH_FLOW_IPV6_EX 15
+#define RTE_ETH_FLOW_IPV6_TCP_EX 16
+#define RTE_ETH_FLOW_IPV6_UDP_EX 17
+#define RTE_ETH_FLOW_PORT 18
+ /**< Consider device port number as a flow differentiator */
+#define RTE_ETH_FLOW_VXLAN 19 /**< VXLAN protocol based flow */
+#define RTE_ETH_FLOW_GENEVE 20 /**< GENEVE protocol based flow */
+#define RTE_ETH_FLOW_NVGRE 21 /**< NVGRE protocol based flow */
+#define RTE_ETH_FLOW_VXLAN_GPE 22 /**< VXLAN-GPE protocol based flow */
+#define RTE_ETH_FLOW_MAX 23
+
+/*
+ * The RSS offload types are defined based on flow types.
+ * Different NIC hardware may support different RSS offload