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From: "Xueming(Steven) Li" <xuemingl@mellanox.com>
To: "Nélio Laranjeiro" <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>
Cc: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>,
	Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
	"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC v1 1/5] ethdev: support rss level on tunnel
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 09:05:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM6PR0502MB407089E4463C077AFA2AB61EAC3C0@AM6PR0502MB4070.eurprd05.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171204081056.2rrtocnglat7u4ow@laranjeiro-vm.dev.6wind.com>


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nelio Laranjeiro [mailto:nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 4, 2017 4:11 PM
> To: Xueming(Steven) Li <xuemingl@mellanox.com>
> Cc: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>; Thomas Monjalon
> <thomas@monjalon.net>; dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [RFC v1 1/5] ethdev: support rss level on tunnel
> 
> Hi Xueming,
> 
> On Sun, Dec 03, 2017 at 02:08:08PM +0800, Xueming Li wrote:
> > There was no RSS hash fields level definition on tunnel,
> > implementations default RSS on tunnel to outer or inner. Adding rss
> > level enable users to specifiy the tunnel level of RSS hash fields.
> >
> > 0:  outer most,
> > 1:  inner,
> > -1: inner most(PMD auto detection if nested tunnel specified in
> > fields)
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Xueming Li <xuemingl@mellanox.com>
> > ---
> >  lib/librte_ether/rte_flow.h | 8 ++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/lib/librte_ether/rte_flow.h b/lib/librte_ether/rte_flow.h
> > index 47c88ea52..41ab91912 100644
> > --- a/lib/librte_ether/rte_flow.h
> > +++ b/lib/librte_ether/rte_flow.h
> > @@ -1078,6 +1078,14 @@ struct rte_flow_action_dup {
> >   */
> >  struct rte_flow_action_rss {
> >  	const struct rte_eth_rss_conf *rss_conf; /**< RSS parameters. */
> > +	/**
> > +	 * RSS on tunnel level:
> > +	 *  0: outer RSS
> > +	 *  1: inner RSS
> > +	 *  2-254: deep inner tunnel level RSS
> > +	 *  -1: inner most level according to flow pattern
> > +	 */
> 
> Not clear enough, some PMD like MLX5 accept rules starting from the VXLAN
> level, the comment "Inner most level according to flow pattern"
> does not inform inside which tunnel the RSS will be done as this pattern
> does not provide any information related to the position of the tunnel in
> the packet.
> What are the expectation for such situation?
Regarding to supported tunnel types, VXLAN, L3VXLAN, GRE or GENEVE as long 
as the PMD supports. RTE_PTYPE_TUNNEL_MASK is a good mask of supported tunnel 
types.

> 
> > +	uint8_t level;
> >  	uint16_t num; /**< Number of entries in queue[]. */
> >  	uint16_t queue[]; /**< Queues indices to use. */  };
> > --
> > 2.13.3
> >
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --
> Nélio Laranjeiro
> 6WIND

  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-04  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-29 17:31 [dpdk-dev] [RFC 0/4] tunnel enhancements Xueming Li
2017-11-29 17:31 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 1/4] ethdev: support rss level on tunnel Xueming Li
2017-11-30  8:16   ` Nelio Laranjeiro
2017-11-30  8:46     ` Xueming(Steven) Li
2017-11-30 10:14       ` Nelio Laranjeiro
2017-12-03  6:08   ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC v1 0/5] tunnel enhancements Xueming Li
2017-12-03  6:08   ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC v1 1/5] ethdev: support rss level on tunnel Xueming Li
2017-12-04  8:10     ` Nelio Laranjeiro
2017-12-04  9:05       ` Xueming(Steven) Li [this message]
2017-12-04 10:32         ` Nelio Laranjeiro
2017-12-04 14:24           ` Xueming(Steven) Li
2017-12-04 15:00             ` Nelio Laranjeiro
2017-12-03  6:08   ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC v1 2/5] app/testpmd: support rte_flow rss level parsing Xueming Li
2017-12-03  6:08   ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC v1 3/5] ethdev: support GRE and L3VXLAN tunnel type Xueming Li
2017-12-03  6:08   ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC v1 4/5] app/testpmd: support l3vxlan " Xueming Li
2017-12-03  6:08   ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC v1 5/5] mbuf: add L3 VXLAN packet type Xueming Li
2017-11-29 17:31 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 2/4] app/testpmd: support rte_flow rss level parsing Xueming Li
2017-11-30  8:18   ` Nelio Laranjeiro
2017-11-30  8:50     ` Xueming(Steven) Li
2017-11-30 10:13       ` Nelio Laranjeiro
2017-11-29 17:31 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 3/4] ethdev: support GRE and L3VXLAN tunnel type Xueming Li
2017-11-29 17:31 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 4/4] app/testpmd: support l3vxlan " Xueming Li

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