[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/ixgbe: remove tpid check for fdir filter

Ferruh Yigit ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Thu Apr 13 12:21:04 CEST 2017


On 4/13/2017 8:49 AM, Wei Zhao wrote:
> DPDK community has several emails discussion on this topic,
> these mails name is "FW: Issues with ixgbe and rte_flow",

Can you please add reference to discussions by mail list archive links.
Like: http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-April/063942.html

> items like VLAN can already have several valid "types"
> (0x88a8, 0x8100, 0x9100), and who knows what will come up
> in the future.And ixgbe_flow just ignores the types when do
> filter configuration. So it may be reasonable to delete the
> related tpid check process.
> Also add some more comment log on stack explanation.
> 
> Fixes: 11777435c72 ("net/ixgbe: parse flow director filter")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wei Zhao <wei.zhao1 at intel.com>

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