[PATCH v1 00/15] IXGBE fixes and cleanups

Anatoly Burakov anatoly.burakov at intel.com
Thu Apr 30 13:14:29 CEST 2026


This patchset fixes a bunch of very old issues in flow management
in IXGBE driver, such as:

- storing process-local pointers in shared memory
- incorrect L4 protocol matching for FDIR
- wrong handling of SCTP flow items
- reading stale FDIR state after flow destroy/flush
- storing all flows in global lists

In addition, some cleanup is also performed - refactors, moving
things around to avoid accessing process-local state, and
writing read-only values at init instead of deep in FDIR.

Finally, FDIR was also rejecting protocol-only matches for TCP
and UDP, these are now supported.

Depends on flow dump patchset: https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=38016

Anatoly Burakov (15):
  net/ixgbe: fix flows not being scoped to port
  net/ixgbe: fix shared PF pointer in representor
  net/ixgbe: fix non-shared data in IPsec session
  net/ixgbe: fix SCTP protocol-only flow parsing
  net/ixgbe: fix L4 protocol mask handling
  net/ixgbe: reset flow state on clear paths
  net/ixgbe: store max VFs in adapter
  net/ixgbe: do not use flow list to count flows
  net/ixgbe: remove redundant flow tracking lists
  net/ixgbe: reduce FDIR conf macro usage
  net/ixgbe: use adapter in flow-related calls
  net/ixgbe: support protocol-only TCP and UDP rules
  net/ixgbe: write drop queue at init
  net/ixgbe: rely less on global flow state
  net/ixgbe: refactor flow creation

 drivers/net/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c        | 112 +--
 drivers/net/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.h        |  45 +-
 drivers/net/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_fdir.c          | 240 +++---
 drivers/net/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_flow.c          | 716 +++++++++---------
 drivers/net/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c         |  10 +-
 drivers/net/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.h         |   3 +-
 drivers/net/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx.c          |  10 +-
 .../net/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_vf_representor.c    |  63 +-
 8 files changed, 590 insertions(+), 609 deletions(-)

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2.47.3



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