[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 6/7] net/mlx5: fix reception when VLAN is added

[Nélio Laranjeiro]

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 12:25:45PM -0700, Yongseok Koh wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 04:49:56PM +0200, Nelio Laranjeiro wrote:
> > @@ -261,75 +284,59 @@ priv_dev_traffic_enable(struct priv *priv, struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
> >  		};
> >  
> >  		claim_zero(mlx5_ctrl_flow(dev, &promisc, &promisc));
> > -	} else if (dev->data->all_multicast) {
> > +		return 0;
> > +	}
> > +	if (dev->data->all_multicast) {
> >  		struct rte_flow_item_eth multicast = {
> >  			.dst.addr_bytes = "\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00",
> > -			.src.addr_bytes = "\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00",
> > +			.src.addr_bytes = "\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00",
> >  			.type = 0,
> >  		};
> >  
> >  		claim_zero(mlx5_ctrl_flow(dev, &multicast, &multicast));
> 
> Just curious. No need to consider VLAN for multicast here?

According to the lib documentation no [1]

 "Enable the receipt of any multicast frame by an Ethernet device"

> [...]
> These (bcast and ipv6_multi_mask) can be duplicated multiple times if there are
> multiple MAC addrs, is that intended?

There is in fact an issue in this series, it does not match my final code.

I'll send a v3.

[1] http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/tree/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h#n2304

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Nélio Laranjeiro
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