Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] net/mlx5: scatter FCS with decapsulation

[Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@mellanox.com>]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suanming Mou <suanmingm@mellanox.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2020 4:10 PM
> To: Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>; Matan Azrad
> <matan@mellanox.com>
> Cc: Ori Kam <orika@mellanox.com>; Raslan Darawsheh
> <rasland@mellanox.com>; dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: [PATCH 0/2] net/mlx5: scatter FCS with decapsulation
> 
> There are some limitations on the some NICs (at least on ConnectX-6DX
> and BlueField2) with supporting FCS (frame checksum) scattering for
> the  tunnel decapsulated packets.
> 
> For the case only one of the features can be supported in the same time,
> and the new devarg "decap_en" is introduced to provide the choice to the
> users.
> 
> If FCS scattering feature is not supposed to be engaged by application,
> this new devarg should be specified as "decap_en=0", forcing the FCS
> feature enable and rejecting tunnel decap actions in the rte_flow engine.
> If FCS scatter is not needed and application supposes to use tunnel
> decapsulation in rte_flow, the devarg can be omitted or set to non-zero
> value (this is default settings).
> 
> Suanming Mou (2):
>   common/mlx5: add scatter FCS with decap capability query
>   net/mlx5: add decap enable device argument
> 
>  doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst             | 15 +++++++++++++++
>  drivers/common/mlx5/mlx5_devx_cmds.c |  2 ++
>  drivers/common/mlx5/mlx5_devx_cmds.h |  1 +
>  drivers/common/mlx5/mlx5_prm.h       |  4 +++-
>  drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_os.c     | 12 ++++++++++--
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c              |  6 ++++++
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.h              |  1 +
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_dv.c      |  5 +++++
>  8 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> --
> 1.8.3.1

Series rebased and applied to next-net-mlx,

Kindest regards,
Raslan Darawsheh