[PATCH v3 12/19] net/ixgbe: advertise flow keep capability

[Medvedkin, Vladimir]

consider reflecting this in release notes

Acked-by: Vladimir Medvedkin <vladimir.medvedkin at intel.com>

On 9/16/2026 1:18 PM, Anatoly Burakov wrote:
> 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 78f3ab57aea..48b1957ea94 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
> @@ -4002,6 +4002,9 @@ 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)

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Regards,
Vladimir