[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/sfc: rely on native thread safety in RTE flow mechanism

[Ivan Malov <ivan.malov@oktetlabs.ru>]

The changeset that introduced common flow API thread safety
in fact introduced double locking to this particular PMD as
RTE flow API implementation in the PMD has been thread-safe
since the day zero. State this by setting the corresponding
device flag to skip locking imposed by generic RTE flow API.

Fixes: 80d1a9aff7f6 ("ethdev: make flow API thread safe")

Signed-off-by: Ivan Malov <ivan.malov@oktetlabs.ru>
---
 doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst            | 2 ++
 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst | 1 +
 drivers/net/sfc/sfc_ethdev.c           | 1 +
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst b/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst
index 962e54389..f5e9f9495 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst
@@ -246,6 +246,8 @@ Validating flow rules depends on the firmware variant.
 
 The :ref:`flow_isolated_mode` is supported.
 
+The implementation is natively thread-safe.
+
 Ethernet destination individual/group match
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst
index 24cedba16..1c262d39a 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst
@@ -220,6 +220,7 @@ New Features
   * Added Alveo SN1000 SmartNICs (EF100 architecture) support including
     flow API transfer rules for switch HW offload
   * Added ARMv8 support
+  * Claimed RTE flow API native thread safety
 
 * **Added Wangxun txgbe PMD.**
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/sfc/sfc_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/sfc/sfc_ethdev.c
index db81e705f..93fc7baa0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/sfc/sfc_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/sfc/sfc_ethdev.c
@@ -2198,6 +2198,7 @@ sfc_eth_dev_init(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
 	/* Copy PCI device info to the dev->data */
 	rte_eth_copy_pci_info(dev, pci_dev);
 	dev->data->dev_flags |= RTE_ETH_DEV_AUTOFILL_QUEUE_XSTATS;
+	dev->data->dev_flags |= RTE_ETH_DEV_FLOW_OPS_THREAD_SAFE;
 
 	rc = sfc_kvargs_parse(sa);
 	if (rc != 0)
-- 
2.20.1