[dpdk-dev] Is Flow Director supported on the x540 chipset?

Thomas Monjalon thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Thu Feb 6 17:47:21 CET 2014


Hi Fulvio,

17/01/2014 12:24, Maxime Leroy:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014, Fulvio Risso <fulvio.risso at polito.it> wrote:
> > by digging into the DPDK code it seems to me that FDIR is not supported
> > on the x540 chipset, while it is supported on 82599.
[...]
> > Is there any plan to support FDIR to the x540 chipset?
> 
[...]
> I think you only need to change few lines in
> lib/librte_pmd_ixgbe/ixgbe_fdir.c:
> 
>   - if (hw->mac.type != ixgbe_mac_82599EB)
>   + if (hw->mac.type != ixgbe_mac_82599EB || hw->mac.type !=
> ixgbe_mac_X540)
> 
> Let me know if you can test it and please provide a patch if it works.

Have you tried to patch and test flow director for X540 ?

thanks
-- 
Thomas


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