[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/i40e: fix X722 FDIR field mask

Zhang, AlvinX alvinx.zhang at intel.com
Fri Jan 29 04:46:02 CET 2021


Hi Beilei,

Thanks for your review.

In theory, RSS does have the same issue, 
but in fact, there is no command to set the mask bit of these field when configuring RSS.

BR,
Alvin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xing, Beilei <beilei.xing at intel.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 29, 2021 11:34 AM
> To: Zhang, AlvinX <alvinx.zhang at intel.com>; Guo, Jia <jia.guo at intel.com>;
> Zhang, Qi Z <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org
> Subject: RE: [PATCH] net/i40e: fix X722 FDIR field mask
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Zhang,Alvin <alvinx.zhang at intel.com>
> > Sent: Friday, January 29, 2021 10:09 AM
> > To: Guo, Jia <jia.guo at intel.com>; Xing, Beilei
> > <beilei.xing at intel.com>; Zhang, Qi Z <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>
> > Cc: dev at dpdk.org
> > Subject: [PATCH] net/i40e: fix X722 FDIR field mask
> >
> > From: Alvin Zhang <alvinx.zhang at intel.com>
> >
> > The absolute field offsets of IPv4 or IPv6 header are related to
> > hardware configuration. The X710 and X722 have different hardware
> > configurations, and users can even modify the hardware configuration.
> > Therefore, The default values cannot be used when calculating mask offset.
> >
> > commands and packets as below:
> >   flow create 0 ingress pattern eth / ipv4 proto is 255  / end
> >   actions queue index 2 / end
> >   pkt = Ether()/IP(ttl=63, proto=255)/Raw('X'*40)
> >
> >   flow create 0 ingress pattern eth / ipv4 tos is 50 / udp / end
> >   actions queue index 2 / end
> >   pkt = Ether()/IP(tos=50)/UDP()/Raw('X'*40)
> >
> >   flow create 0 ingress pattern eth / ipv6 tc is 12 / udp / end
> >   actions queue index 3 / end
> >   pkt = Ether()/IPv6(tc=12,hlim=34,fl=0x98765)/UDP()/Raw('X'*40)
> >
> >   flow create 0 ingress pattern eth / ipv6 hop is 34 / end actions
> >   queue index 3 / end
> >   pkt = Ether()/IPv6(tc=12,hlim=34,fl=0x98765)/Raw('X'*40)
> 
> Not very clear about the issue, the above flows will fail to be created with X722?
> And you fix is for FDIR, does RSS have similar issue?
> 
> Beilei
> 



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