rte_flow: total_length field match not working (MLX5)?

[Maayan Kashani]

Hi,
Sorry for the late response,
This feature is supported on template mode with template API (dv_flow_en=2).
I see the documentation is not clear, we are working on updating it.

Regards,
Maayan Kashani

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Hart <tony.hart at domainhart.com>
> Sent: Saturday, 28 October 2023 16:53
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> Subject: rte_flow: total_length field match not working (MLX5)?
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> 
> I'm trying to match on the IPv4 total-length field using the feature introduced
> in DPDK 23.07; however although the length option is accepted by testpmd it
> seems that it's ignored by Connectx6.
> 
> I'm sending small packets. e.g.
> 
> 09:44:39.617427 IP 100.100.1.14.10000 > 1.1.1.1.80: Flags [S], seq
> 408572454:408572460, win 8192, length 6: HTTP
> 
> and have the following flows set in testpmd...
> 
> flow create 0 ingress pattern end actions jump group 1 / end flow create 0
> group 1 ingress pattern eth / ipv4 dst is 1.1.1.1 length spec 1400 length last
> 1448 / end actions count / drop / end
> 
> However the flow is matched even though the packet should fail the length
> criteria.
> 
> testpmd> flow list 0
> ID    Group    Prio    Attr    Rule
> 0    0    0    i--    => JUMP
> 1    1    0    i--    ETH IPV4 => COUNT DROP
> 
> testpmd> flow query 0 1 count
> COUNT:
>  hits_set: 1
>  bytes_set: 1
>  hits: 13
>  bytes: 832
> 
> Any thoughts?
> Tony
> 
> btw, I'm using OFED 5.8 and firmware version 22.35.2000
> 
> mlnx-ofa_kernel-5.8-OFED.5.8.1.1.2.1.rhel9u1.x86_64
> kmod-mlnx-ofa_kernel-5.8-OFED.5.8.1.1.2.1.rhel9u1.x86_64
> mlnx-ofa_kernel-devel-5.8-OFED.5.8.1.1.2.1.rhel9u1.x86_64
> ofed-scripts-5.8-OFED.5.8.1.1.2.x86_64
> 
> hca_id:    mlx5_0
>     transport:            InfiniBand (0)
>     fw_ver:                22.35.2000
>     node_guid:            e8eb:d303:00b4:7c86
>     sys_image_guid:            e8eb:d303:00b4:7c86
>     vendor_id:            0x02c9
>     vendor_part_id:            4125
>     hw_ver:                0x0
>     board_id:            MT_0000000359