[PATCH v3 19/19] net/i40e: advertise flow keep capability

Anatoly Burakov anatoly.burakov at intel.com
Wed Sep 16 14:18:25 CEST 2026


The i40e 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/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c
index cca60e2889f..4e8a6a83b15 100644
--- a/drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c
@@ -3664,7 +3664,8 @@ i40e_dev_info_get(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, struct rte_eth_dev_info *dev_info)
 	dev_info->dev_capa =
 		RTE_ETH_DEV_CAPA_RUNTIME_RX_QUEUE_SETUP |
 		RTE_ETH_DEV_CAPA_RUNTIME_TX_QUEUE_SETUP;
-	dev_info->dev_capa &= ~RTE_ETH_DEV_CAPA_FLOW_RULE_KEEP;
+	/* 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->hash_key_size = (I40E_PFQF_HKEY_MAX_INDEX + 1) *
 						sizeof(uint32_t);
-- 
2.52.0



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