[PATCH V3 2/2] net/mlx5: add support for flows targeting multicast MAC addresses
Gavin Li
gavinl at nvidia.com
Mon Aug 25 16:13:22 CEST 2025
Rules for multicast MAC addresses are intended to filter multicast traffic
and are managed through multicast MAC add/remove APIs. In mlx5_dev_spawn
function, devices (PF, VFs, and SFs) retrieve the netdev-configured MAC
addresses via netlink and store them in the PMD device data, which
includes multicast MAC addresses.
Previously, flows for multicast MAC addresses were incorrectly disabled,
causing the multicast MAC add API to stop working. As a result, multicast
traffic directed to those multicast MAC addresses was not received.
To resolve this and update the multicast MAC address rules, create them
within mlx5_traffic_enable.
Fixes: 2d0665a7f771 ("net/mlx5: align PF and VF/SF MAC address handling")
Cc: stable at dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Gavin Li <gavinl at nvidia.com>
---
drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_trigger.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_trigger.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_trigger.c
index 6c6f228afd..46479fbf09 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_trigger.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_trigger.c
@@ -1813,7 +1813,10 @@ mlx5_traffic_enable(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
for (i = 0; i != MLX5_MAX_MAC_ADDRESSES; ++i) {
struct rte_ether_addr *mac = &dev->data->mac_addrs[i];
- if (!memcmp(mac, &cmp, sizeof(*mac)) || rte_is_multicast_ether_addr(mac))
+ /* Add flows for unicast and multicast mac addresses added by API. */
+ if (!memcmp(mac, &cmp, sizeof(*mac)) ||
+ !BITFIELD_ISSET(priv->mac_own, i) ||
+ (dev->data->all_multicast && rte_is_multicast_ether_addr(mac)))
continue;
memcpy(&unicast.hdr.dst_addr.addr_bytes,
mac->addr_bytes,
--
2.34.1
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