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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Rongwei Liu <rongweil@nvidia.com>, rasland@nvidia.com
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, matan@nvidia.com, viacheslavo@nvidia.com,
	orika@nvidia.com,  Maayan Kashani <mkashani@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] net/mlx5: add test for hot upgrade
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2023 22:22:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <27670733.gRfpFWEtPU@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230516054137.1396922-1-rongweil@nvidia.com>

16/05/2023 07:41, Rongwei Liu:
> This patch adds testpmd app a runtime function to test the hot
> upgrade API.
> 
>     testpmd> mlx5 set flow_engine <0|1> (flag)
> 0 stands for active mode while 1 for standby mode.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rongwei Liu <rongweil@nvidia.com>
> Acked-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>
> ---
> --- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> @@ -2057,3 +2057,13 @@ where:
>  * ``sw_queue_id``: queue index in range [64536, 65535].
>    This range is the highest 1000 numbers.
>  * ``hw_queue_id``: queue index given by HW in queue creation.
> +
> +Set Flow Engine Mode
> +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The title is made as a sub-section of "port map external Rx queue",
which looks wrong.

> +
> +Set the flow engine to active(0) or standby(1) mode with specific flags::
> +   testpmd> mlx5 set flow_engine <0|1> (flags)

It should be said it is for testing live migration.

Also the flags are not described. Should we pass an integer?

> +
> +This command works for software steering only.
> +Default FDB jump should be disabled if switchdev is enabled.
> +The mode will propagate to all the probed ports.

For the reasons above, I prefer not pulling this patch in the main branch.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-06-26 20:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-16  5:41 Rongwei Liu
2023-06-19 12:09 ` Raslan Darawsheh
2023-06-26 20:22 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2023-09-18 12:17   ` Rongwei Liu

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