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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: viacheslavo@nvidia.com, Jiawei Wang <jiaweiw@nvidia.com>
Cc: matan@nvidia.com, orika@nvidia.com,
	Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@nvidia.com>,
	dev@dpdk.org, rasland@nvidia.com, stable@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix mirror flow split with L3 encapsulation
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 14:57:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5536161.f2duC4C3qX@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210723124338.18269-1-jiaweiw@nvidia.com>

23/07/2021 14:43, Jiawei Wang:
> Due to hardware limitations, the decap action can't follow the

Which decap action? Pleas be more specific.

> sample action in the same flow, to keep the original action order
> of sample and decap actions the flow was internally split by PMD,
> and decap action was moved into suffix subflow in the new table.

"the" new table? which one?

Was there an issue? Above seems to say all is fine.

> There is a specific combination of raw decap and raw encap actions
> to specify "L3 encapsulation" packet transformation - raw decap action
> to remove L2 header and raw encap to add the tunnel header.

Is this combination the problem? It was not working before this patch?
Please describe what happened.

> This specific L3 encapsulation is encoded as a single packet reformat
> hardware transaction and is supported by hardware after sample
> action (no hardware limitations for packet reformat).
> 
> The patch checks whether the decap action is the part of "L3 encapsulation"

I think you mean "is part of".

> and does not move the decap action into suffix subflow for the case.
> 
> Fixes: cafd87f62a06 ("net/mlx5: fix VLAN push/pop and decap actions with mirror")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiawei Wang <jiaweiw@nvidia.com>
> Acked-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>




  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-23 12:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-23 12:43 Jiawei Wang
2021-07-23 12:57 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2021-07-23 14:01   ` Jiawei(Jonny) Wang
2021-07-23 14:09     ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-07-26  6:26       ` Jiawei(Jonny) Wang
2021-07-26  6:22 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2] " Jiawei Wang
2021-07-28 13:07   ` Raslan Darawsheh

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