[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] net/vmxnet3: v4 boot and guest UDP RSS configuration

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 4/18/2019 9:59 PM, Eduard Serra Miralles wrote:
> From: Eduard Serra <eserra at vmware.com>
> 
> This patch introduces:
> - VMxnet3 v4 negotiation and,
> - entirely guest-driven UDP RSS support.
> 
> VMxnet3 v3 already has UDP RSS support, however it
> depends on hypervisor provisioning on the VM through
> ESX specific flags, which are not transparent or known
> to the guest later on.
> 
> Vmxnet3 v4 introduces a new API transaction which allows
> configuring RSS entirely from the guest. This API must be
> invoked after device shared mem region is initialized.
> 
> IPv4 ESP RSS (SPI based) is also available, but currently
> there are no ESP RSS definitions on rte_eth layer to
> handle that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eduard Serra <eserra at vmware.com>
> Acked-by: Yong Wang <yongwang at vmware.com>

Applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.