[PATCH v3 16/19] net/i40e: reimplement FDIR parser

[Medvedkin, Vladimir]

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

On 9/16/2026 1:18 PM, Anatoly Burakov wrote:
> Use the new flow graph API and the common parsing framework to implement
> flow parser for flow director.
>
> As a result of transitioning to more formalized validation, some checks
> have become more stringent. In particular, some protocols (such as SCTP)
> were previously accepting non-zero or invalid masks and either ignoring
> them or misinterpreting them to mean "fully masked". This has now been
> corrected.
>
> The FDIR engine in i40e has also relied on a custom memory allocation
> scheme for fdir flows - also migrated to the new infrastructure.
>
> Finally, some of the FDIR infrastructure has been migrated into the new
> flow engine, so that the engine itself is managing its own allocator and
> its own flow deduplication scheme.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov<anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
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Regards,
Vladimir