[dpdk-dev] FDIR issues when upgrading custom application from dpdk 1.8 to dpdk 2.0

Thomas Monjalon thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Wed Jul 8 18:39:22 CEST 2015


2015-07-08 16:17, Marian Barbu:
> Hello,
> 
> I've been working on upgrading a custom dpdk application from dpdk 1.8.0 to
> dpdk 2.0.0.
> 
> I want to use FDIR to distribute the traffic based on IP to multiple
> queues, but I seem to get -95 (ENOTSUP) error code from
> *rte_eth_dev_fdir_set_masks.
> *I mention that this was all working fine with dpdk 1.8.0. Any ideas?

We had some troubles when migrating FDIR to a new API.
In DPDK 2.0, the old API you are using is implemented only for enic.
In order to use FDIR for ixgbe, you have to check the new API:
	http://dpdk.org/doc/api-2.0/structrte__eth__fdir__filter.html



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