[PATCH v13 00/11] net/tap: make RSS work again
Ferruh Yigit
ferruh.yigit at amd.com
Tue May 21 16:35:34 CEST 2024
On 5/21/2024 3:19 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> 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 net/tap: do not build flow support if header is out of date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?
>
Ah, I forgot that './devtools/check-meson.py' tool is complaining about
some meson code.
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