Test-Label: intel-Testing
Test-Status: SUCCESS 
_Testing PASS 

DPDK git repo: dpdk-next-net

commit 55cc366fb18afa7dda6f6e513ab311e30f8b7248
Author: Rongwei Liu <rongweil@nvidia.com>
Date:   Mon Nov 14 13:59:46 2022 +0200

    ethdev: add special flags when creating async transfer table
    
    In case flow rules match only one kind of traffic in a flow table,
    then optimization can be done via allocation of this table.
    Such optimization is possible only if the application gives a hint
    about its usage of the table during initial configuration.
    
    The transfer domain rules may process traffic from wire or vport,
    which may correspond to two kinds of underlayer resources.
    That's why the first two hints introduced in this patch are about
    wire and vport traffic specialization.
    Wire means traffic arrives from the uplink port while vport means
    traffic initiated from VF/SF.
    
    There are two possible approaches for providing the hints.
    Using IPv4 as an example:
    1. Use pattern item in both template table and flow rules.
    
       pattern_template: pattern ANY_VPORT / eth / ipv4 is 1.1.1.1 / end
       async flow create: pattern ANY_VPORT / eth / ipv4 is 1.1.1.2 / end
    
       "ANY_VPORT" needs to be present in each flow rule even if it's
       just a hint. No value to match because matching is already done by
       IPv4 item.
    
    2. Add special flags into table_attr.
    
       template_table 0 create table_id 0 group 1 transfer vport_orig
    
    Approach 1 needs to specify the pattern in each flow rule which wastes
    memory and is not user friendly.
    This patch takes the 2nd approach and introduces one new member
    "specialize" into rte_flow_table_attr to indicate possible flow table
    optimization.
    
    By default, there is no hint, so the behavior of the transfer domain
    doesn't change.
    There is no guarantee that the hint will be used by the PMD.
    
    Signed-off-by: Rongwei Liu <rongweil@nvidia.com>
    Acked-by: Ori Kam <orika@nvidia.com>

Testing Summary : 18 Case Done, 18 Successful, 0 Failures

Testbed #1: 9 Case Done, 9 Successful, 0 Failures 
	* Test result details:
	  +-------------+---------------------------+-------+
	  | suite       | case                      | status|
	  +-------------+---------------------------+-------+
	  | asan_smoke  | test_rxtx_with_ASan_enable| passed|
	  | pf_smoke    | test_pf_jumbo_frames      | passed|
	  | pf_smoke    | test_pf_rss               | passed|
	  | pf_smoke    | test_pf_tx_rx_queue       | passed|
	  | vf_smoke    | test_vf_jumbo_frames      | passed|
	  | vf_smoke    | test_vf_rss               | passed|
	  | vf_smoke    | test_vf_tx_rx_queue       | passed|
	  | virtio_smoke| test_virtio_loopback      | passed|
	  | virtio_smoke| test_virtio_pvp           | passed|
	  +-------------+---------------------------+-------+
	* Environment:
	  OS : Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS       
	  Kernel : 5.8.0-63-generic         
	  GCC : 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1        
	  NIC : Ethernet Controller E810-C for SFP         
	  Target : x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc      

Testbed #2: 9 Case Done, 9 Successful, 0 Failures 
	* Test result details:
	  +-------------+---------------------------+-------+
	  | suite       | case                      | status|
	  +-------------+---------------------------+-------+
	  | asan_smoke  | test_rxtx_with_ASan_enable| passed|
	  | pf_smoke    | test_pf_jumbo_frames      | passed|
	  | pf_smoke    | test_pf_rss               | passed|
	  | pf_smoke    | test_pf_tx_rx_queue       | passed|
	  | vf_smoke    | test_vf_rss               | passed|
	  | vf_smoke    | test_vf_tx_rx_queue       | passed|
	  | vf_smoke    | test_vf_jumbo_frames      | n/a   |
	  | virtio_smoke| test_virtio_loopback      | passed|
	  | virtio_smoke| test_virtio_pvp           | passed|
	  +-------------+---------------------------+-------+
	* Environment:
	  OS : Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS       
	  Kernel : 5.13.0-30-generic         
	  GCC : 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1        
	  NIC : Ethernet Controller XL710 for 40GbE QSFP+         
	  Target : x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc      

TestPlan:
	   pf_smoke: http://git.dpdk.org/tools/dts/tree/test_plans/pf_smoke_test_plan.rst
	   vf_smoke: http://git.dpdk.org/tools/dts/tree/test_plans/vf_smoke_test_plan.rst
	   asan_smoke: http://git.dpdk.org/tools/dts/tree/test_plans/asan_smoke_test_plan.rst

TestSuite:
	   pf_smoke: http://git.dpdk.org/tools/dts/tree/tests/TestSuite_pf_smoke.py
	   vf_smoke: http://git.dpdk.org/tools/dts/tree/tests/TestSuite_vf_smoke.py
	   virtio_smoke: http://git.dpdk.org/tools/dts/tree/tests/TestSuite_virtio_smoke.py
	   asan_smoke: http://git.dpdk.org/tools/dts/tree/tests/TestSuite_asan_smoke.py


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