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Packet Forwarding Control Protocol (PFCP) is a 3GPP Protocol used between the control plane and the user plane function. It is specified in TS 29.244[1]. Note that this module is not designed to support this Protocol in the kernel space. There is no support for parsing any PFCP messages. There is no API that could be used by any userspace daemon. Basically it does not support PFCP. This protocol is sophisticated and there is no need for implementing it in the kernel. The purpose of this module is to allow users to setup software and hardware offload of PFCP packets using tc tool. When user requests to create a PFCP device, a new socket is created. The socket is set up with port number 8805 which is specific for PFCP [29.244 4.2.2]. This allow to receive PFCP request messages, response messages use other ports. Note that only one PFCP netdev can be created. Only IPv4 is supported at this time. [1] https://portal.3gpp.org/desktopmodules/Specifications/SpecificationDetails.aspx?specificationId=3111 Signed-off-by: Wojciech Drewek <wojciech.drewek@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Marcin Szycik <marcin.szycik@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.