From: Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>
To: Alexander Kozyrev <akozyrev@nvidia.com>, "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Cc: "stable@dpdk.org" <stable@dpdk.org>,
Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>,
Matan Azrad <matan@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix modify field action order for MAC
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2021 11:40:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DM4PR12MB505408C671A75679D5E8FED0CF0E9@DM4PR12MB5054.namprd12.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210616144236.2802978-1-akozyrev@nvidia.com>
Hi,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Kozyrev <akozyrev@nvidia.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2021 5:43 PM
> To: dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>; Slava
> Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>; Matan Azrad <matan@nvidia.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix modify field action order for MAC
>
> MAC addresses are split into 2 parts inside Mellanox NIC:
> bits 0-15 are separate from bits 16-47. That makes a copy
> from another packet field tricky because any other field
> is aligned to 32 bits, not 16. This causes unexpected
> results when using the MODIFY_FIELD action with MAC addresses.
> Track crossing MAC addresses boundary and arrange a proper
> order for the MODIFY_FIELD action involving MAC addresses.
>
> Fixes: 641dbe4fb053 ("net/mlx5: support modify field flow action")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Kozyrev <akozyrev@nvidia.com>
> Acked-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>
Patch applied to next-net-mlx,
Kindest regards,
Raslan Darawsheh
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