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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Suanming Mou <suanmingm@nvidia.com>
Cc: viacheslavo@nvidia.com, matan@nvidia.com, dev@dpdk.org,
	rasland@nvidia.com, stable@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/mlx5: workaround not supported drop action on the root table
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2021 15:18:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <11307808.EMJHuiC2OS@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210802143024.30484-1-suanmingm@nvidia.com>

02/08/2021 16:30, Suanming Mou:
> Currently, there are two types of drop action implementation
> in the PMD. One is the DR(Direct Rules) dummy placeholder drop
> action and another is the dedicated dummy queue drop action.
> When creates flow on the root table with DR drop action, the
> action will be converted to MLX5_IB_ATTR_CREATE_FLOW_FLAGS_DROP
> Verbs attribute in rdma-core.
> 
> In some inbox systems, MLX5_IB_ATTR_CREATE_FLOW_FLAGS_DROP Verbs
> attribute may not be supported in the kernel driver. Create flow
> with drop action on the root table will be failed as it is not
> supported. In this case, the dummy queue drop action should be
> used instead of DR dummy placeholder drop action.
> 
> This commit adds the DR drop action support detect on the root
> table. If MLX5_IB_ATTR_CREATE_FLOW_FLAGS_DROP Verbs is not
> supported in the system, a dummy queue will be used as drop
> action.
> 
> Fixes: da845ae9d7c1 ("net/mlx5: fix drop action for Direct Rules/Verbs")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Suanming Mou <suanmingm@nvidia.com>
> Acked-by: Matan Azrad <matan@nvidia.com>

Applied, thanks.




      reply	other threads:[~2021-08-03 13:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-02 14:30 [dpdk-stable] " Suanming Mou
2021-08-03 13:18 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]

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