[PATCH v2 12/19] net/ixgbe: advertise flow keep capability

Anatoly Burakov anatoly.burakov at intel.com
Tue Sep 8 17:20:54 CEST 2026


The ixgbe driver's rte_flow implementation has always endeavored to keep
flows across device restart, however it never advertised this capability.
Advertise it explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
---
 drivers/net/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
index 0f2188f6a9..b8bcd12b6a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
@@ -3968,6 +3968,9 @@ ixgbe_dev_info_get(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, struct rte_eth_dev_info *dev_info)
 	dev_info->reta_size = ixgbe_reta_size_get(hw->mac.type);
 	dev_info->flow_type_rss_offloads = IXGBE_RSS_OFFLOAD_ALL;
 
+	/* rte_flow rules are kept across dev_stop/dev_start and replayed on start */
+	dev_info->dev_capa |= RTE_ETH_DEV_CAPA_FLOW_RULE_KEEP;
+
 	dev_info->speed_capa = RTE_ETH_LINK_SPEED_1G | RTE_ETH_LINK_SPEED_10G;
 	if (hw->device_id == IXGBE_DEV_ID_X550EM_A_1G_T ||
 			hw->device_id == IXGBE_DEV_ID_X550EM_A_1G_T_L)
-- 
2.52.0



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