From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>, Ori Kam <orika@nvidia.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: [dpdk-dev] Querying for rte_flow support?
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 10:44:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210929104436.6fd88409@hermes.local> (raw)
Have a problem with auto-detecting whether device driver supports rte_flow.
Ideally in application would like to be able adapt to handle devices that
do rte_flow and those that do not. If device does not support rte_flow,
then configure with RSS across multiple cores; if device does support rte_flow
then assign traffic to queue based on match (on MAC).
The problem is that there really is not a good API in DPDK for checking.
Most device drivers will not give the correct return to rte_flow_validate
unless the device is configured already, and some require device to be started.
In order to configure, the application has to choose how many queues to use
and that is the reason it wants to know if rte_flow will work!
The other alternative is looking at DPDK internal data structs to see
if device supports flow operations. That is not good, and causes more
issues in later releases.
Looks like rte_flow has a "chicken/egg problem" here.
next reply other threads:[~2021-09-29 17:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-29 17:44 Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2021-09-29 18:52 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-09-29 22:37 ` Stephen Hemminger
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