[PATCH v13 00/11] net/tap: make RSS work again

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 5/21/2024 3:47 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> The support of doing RSS for rte_flow_action was a cool idea
> but it has been broken for several releases of DPDK as the
> underlying kernel and BPF infrastructure changed.
> 
> This series cleans up the BPF program, implements several
> features that were never completed in the original code
> and changes to use the current BPF tool chain.
> 
> The result should be easier to read and maintain. I do not
> intend to support backporting this to stable releases due
> to lack of demand and dealing with older distros.
> 
> v13 - Incorporate review feedback.
>       Drop change to statistics and queue full handling;
>       these will get fixed in another series.
> 
> Stephen Hemminger (11):
>   net/tap: fix fd check in flow_isolate
>   net/tap: do not duplicate fd's
>   net/tap: remove unused fields
>   net/tap: validate and setup parameters for BPF RSS
>   net/tap: do not build flow support if header is out of date
>   net/tap: rewrite the RSS BPF program
>   net/tap: use libbpf to load new BPF program
>   net/tap: remove no longer used files
>   net/tap: simplify internals
>   net/tap: remove extraneous newlines
>   net/tap: update documentation
>

Thanks Stephen for the update, I don't have any new comment, but there
are some outstanding questions on v12 9/12, can you please check them?