[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] net/iavf: fix virtual channel RSS command error handling

[Zhang, Qi Z]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zhang, AlvinX <alvinx.zhang at intel.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2021 5:17 PM
> To: Xing, Beilei <beilei.xing at intel.com>; Zhang, Qi Z <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Zhang, AlvinX <alvinx.zhang at intel.com>;
> stable at dpdk.org
> Subject: [PATCH v2] net/iavf: fix virtual channel RSS command error handling
> 
> Kernel PF may not respond to virtual channel commands
> VIRTCHNL_OP_GET_RSS_HENA_CAPS and VIRTCHNL_OP_SET_RSS_HENA,
> which will cause VF to fail to start.
> 
> RSS offload type configuration is not a necessary feature for VF, so in order
> to improve VF compatibility, in this patch the PMD will ignore the error
> result of above two commands and will print warnings instead.
> 
> Fixes: 5a038d19962d ("net/iavf: fix RSS configuration on i40e VF")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alvin Zhang <alvinx.zhang at intel.com>

Acked-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>

Applied to dpdk-next-net-intel.

Thanks
Qi