[dpdk-stable] [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix Rx metadata leftovers

Raslan Darawsheh rasland at nvidia.com
Tue Mar 16 17:15:19 CET 2021


Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at nvidia.com>
> Sent: Sunday, March 7, 2021 1:46 PM
> To: dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: Raslan Darawsheh <rasland at nvidia.com>; Matan Azrad
> <matan at nvidia.com>; Ori Kam <orika at nvidia.com>; stable at dpdk.org
> Subject: [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix Rx metadata leftovers
> 
> The Rx metadata might use the metadata register C0 to keep the
> values. The same register C0 might be used by kernel for source
> vport value handling, kernel uses upper half of the register,
> leaving the lower half for application usage.
> 
> In the extended metadata mode 1 (dv_xmeta_en devarg is
> assigned with value 1) the metadata width is 16 bits only,
> the Rx datapath code fetched the entire 32-bit value of the
> metadata register and presented one to application. The patch
> provides data masking depending on the chosen metadata mode.
> 
> Fixes: 6c55b622a956 ("net/mlx5: set dynamic flow metadata in Rx queues")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at nvidia.com>

Patch applied to next-net-mlx,

Kindest regards,
Raslan Darawsheh


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