From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga09.intel.com (mga09.intel.com [134.134.136.24]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74B8F1B2C9 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2017 21:12:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: from fmsmga003.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.29]) by orsmga102.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 12 Oct 2017 12:12:05 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.43,367,1503385200"; d="scan'208";a="909384892" Received: from unknown (HELO [10.241.225.21]) ([10.241.225.21]) by FMSMGA003.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 12 Oct 2017 12:12:04 -0700 To: Adrien Mazarguil Cc: Nelio Laranjeiro , dev@dpdk.org References: From: Ferruh Yigit Message-ID: <8842eae3-fada-31f1-2038-986af5891a8d@intel.com> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 20:12:04 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 00/29] net/mlx4: restore PMD functionality X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 19:12:06 -0000 On 10/12/2017 1:19 PM, Adrien Mazarguil wrote: > This series restores all the control path functionality removed in prior > series "net/mlx4: trim and refactor entire PMD", including: > > - Promiscuous mode. > - All multicast mode. > - MAC address configuration. > - Support for multiple simultaneous MAC addresses. > - Reception of broadcast and user-defined multicast traffic. > - VLAN filters. > - RSS. > > This rework also results in the following enhancements: > > - Support for multiple flow rule priorities (up to 4096). > - Much more comprehensive error messages when failing to create or apply > flow rules. > - Flow rules with the RSS action targeting disparate queues can now overlap > (as long as they take HW limitations into account). > - RSS contexts can be created/destroyed on demand (they were previously > fixed once and for all after applying the first flow rule). > - RSS hash key can be configured per context. > - Rx objects have a smaller memory footprint. > > Note that it should be applied directly before the following series: > > "new mlx4 datapath bypassing ibverbs" > > For which a new version based on top of this one will be submitted soon. > > v2 changes: > > - Moved new memory allocation wrappers from EAL into the mlx4 PMD. > - Re-based on latest dpdk-next-net. > > Adrien Mazarguil (29): > ethdev: expose flow API error helper > net/mlx4: replace bit-field type > net/mlx4: remove Rx QP initializer function > net/mlx4: enhance header files comments > net/mlx4: expose support for flow rule priorities > net/mlx4: clarify flow objects naming scheme > net/mlx4: tidy up flow rule handling code > net/mlx4: compact flow rule error reporting > net/mlx4: add iovec-like allocation wrappers > net/mlx4: merge flow creation and validation code > net/mlx4: allocate drop flow resources on demand > net/mlx4: relax check on missing flow rule target > net/mlx4: refactor internal flow rules > net/mlx4: generalize flow rule priority support > net/mlx4: simplify trigger code for flow rules > net/mlx4: refactor flow item validation code > net/mlx4: add MAC addresses configuration support > net/mlx4: add VLAN filter configuration support > net/mlx4: add flow support for multicast traffic > net/mlx4: restore promisc and allmulti support > net/mlx4: update Rx/Tx callbacks consistently > net/mlx4: fix invalid errno value sign > net/mlx4: drop live queue reconfiguration support > net/mlx4: allocate queues and mbuf rings together > net/mlx4: convert Rx path to work queues > net/mlx4: remove unnecessary check > net/mlx4: add RSS flow rule action support > net/mlx4: disable UDP support in RSS flow rules > net/mlx4: add RSS support outside flow API Series applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.