[dpdk-users] mlx5 flow MARK action does not work with RSS

Shahaf Shuler shahafs at mellanox.com
Thu Jan 31 07:42:46 CET 2019


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Hi Tom,


Wednesday, January 30, 2019 7:47 PM, Tom Barbette:
> Subject: mlx5 flow MARK action does not work with RSS
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> It seems that when using the RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_RSS action, the
> RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_MARK does not work anymore with mlx5. The
> flag RX_PKT_ID is not set, and the value in .hi is not good either. If I use
> RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_QUEUE it works fine.

It is not expected, Mark action can set along w/ RSS.

Can you provide a way to reproduce? maybe w/ testpmd? so we can have a look.
We are not familiar w/ such issue from our testing. 

> 
> Actually, I do not want specifically to use the RSS action. I would just like the
> packet to be marked but continue its normal path (that is the global RSS).
> However I get the "no fate action" error in that case.
> 
> Any way to use RSS but keep the "mark" ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Tom


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