[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] net/tap: allow RSS flow action
Pascal Mazon
pascal.mazon at 6wind.com
Wed Oct 4 10:37:15 CEST 2017
Hi,
I was a little too quick earlier. The line breaks are justified because
they follow the list of variable declarations.
So I ack the whole patch series.
Acked-by: Pascal Mazon <pascal.mazon at 6wind.com>
On 04/10/2017 10:19, Pascal Mazon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What you say stands to reason, I'm basically ok with your patch, except
> for one remark.
> The rest of the file has no line breaks anywhere, please remove the two
> you added.
>
> Best regards,
> Pascal
>
> On 03/10/2017 16:55, Matan Azrad wrote:
>> One of the main identified use cases for the tap PMD is to be used in
>> combination with the fail-safe PMD as a fallback for a physical device.
>>
>> Fail-safe is very strict about making sure its current configuration is
>> properly applied to all slave devices, they get rejected otherwise in
>> order to maintain a consistent state.
>>
>> The problem is that tap's RSS support is currently limited to the
>> default (non-Toeplitz) balancing performed by the kernel on all Rx
>> queues. While proper RSS support emulation in the tap PMD is a work in
>> progress, the lack of rte_flow counterpart prevents validation of the
>> above use case in the meantime.
>>
>> Given that unlike most PMDs, tap is more about convenience than
>> performance, support for the RSS action can be temporarily faked with
>> a minimum amount of code and mostly correct behavior by treating it
>> like a QUEUE action. Traffic is directed to the first queue of the set.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Matan Azrad <matan at mellanox.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/net/tap/tap_flow.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/tap/tap_flow.c b/drivers/net/tap/tap_flow.c
>> index aa33960..28d793f 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/tap/tap_flow.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/tap/tap_flow.c
>> @@ -1089,6 +1089,7 @@ struct tap_flow_items {
>> const struct rte_flow_action_queue *queue =
>> (const struct rte_flow_action_queue *)
>> actions->conf;
>> +
>> if (action)
>> goto exit_action_not_supported;
>> action = 1;
>> @@ -1097,6 +1098,20 @@ struct tap_flow_items {
>> goto exit_action_not_supported;
>> if (flow)
>> err = add_action_skbedit(flow, queue->index);
>> + } else if (actions->type == RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_RSS) {
>> + /* Fake RSS support. */
>> + const struct rte_flow_action_rss *rss =
>> + (const struct rte_flow_action_rss *)
>> + actions->conf;
>> +
>> + if (action)
>> + goto exit_action_not_supported;
>> + action = 1;
>> + if (!rss || rss->num < 1 ||
>> + (rss->queue[0] > pmd->dev->data->nb_rx_queues - 1))
>> + goto exit_action_not_supported;
>> + if (flow)
>> + err = add_action_skbedit(flow, rss->queue[0]);
>> } else {
>> goto exit_action_not_supported;
>> }
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