[PATCH 0/3] Support IPv6 flow label based RSS

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 2/8/2024 6:56 PM, Ajit Khaparde wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 8, 2024 at 10:47 AM Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at amd.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 2/8/2024 5:43 AM, Ajit Khaparde wrote:
>>> The use of 5-tuple of the source address, destination address,
>>> source port, destination port, and the transport protocol type
>>> may not be possible due to IP fragmentation, encryption, or
>>> inability to parse past IPv6 extensions headers.
>>>
>>> Flow label values can be chosen such that they can be
>>> used as part of the input to a hash function used in a load
>>> distribution scheme.
>>>
>>> On supporting hardware, the 20-bit Flow Label field in the
>>> IPv6 header can be used to perform RSS in the ingress path.
>>>
>>> Please apply.
>>>
>>
>> Hi Ajit,
>>
> Thanks Ferruh.
> 
>> First two patch looks OK but can you please combine them into single patch?
> Sure. Can do.
> 
>>
>> There are two ways for RSS, config APIs and rte_flow based support,
>> testpmd patch only adds flow based support, I don't know if old method
>> support is required, but if you want to add you can check following sample:
>> 'Commit 46914aa1c793 ("ethdev: add eCPRI RSS offload type")'
> Ok. Let me check.
> 
>>
>>
>> Third patch, bnxt one, doesn't apply. It looks like it is on top of
>> different source code, if you prefer you can make it another patch and
>> get your tree.
> Yes. That's right. I had used the brcm-next-net for that and wanted
> to have a driver patch to show usability of the code.
> 
> I think in v2, I will just send the ethdev + testpmd patch
>

ack.

> and add the driver patch in the PMD list/tree for cherry-pick.
> 
> Thanks
> Ajit
> 
>>
>>
>>> Example to configure IPv6 flow label based RSS:
>>>
>>> flow create 0 ingress pattern eth / ipv6 / tcp / end actions rss types ipv6-flow-label end / end
>>>
>>> Ajit Khaparde (3):
>>>   ethdev: add support for RSS based on IPv6 flow label
>>>   app/testpmd: add IPv6 flow label to RSS types
>>>   net/bnxt: add IPv6 flow label based RSS support
>>>
>>>  app/test-pmd/config.c          | 1 +
>>>  drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt.h        | 1 +
>>>  drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_ethdev.c | 2 ++
>>>  drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_hwrm.c   | 7 +++++++
>>>  drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_vnic.c   | 9 +++++++--
>>>  lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.h        | 1 +
>>>  6 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>