Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/2] ethdev: add supported hash function check

[Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>]

On 4/20/2018 3:30 PM, Xueming Li wrote:
> Add supported RSS hash function check in device configuration to
> have better error verbosity for application developers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xueming Li <xuemingl@mellanox.com>
> Acked-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
> ---
>  lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c b/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c
> index 3c049ef43..7b1dda926 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c
> @@ -1179,6 +1179,18 @@ rte_eth_dev_configure(uint16_t port_id, uint16_t nb_rx_q, uint16_t nb_tx_q,
>  							ETHER_MAX_LEN;
>  	}
>  
> +	/* Check that device supports requested rss hash functions. */
> +	if ((dev_info.flow_type_rss_offloads |
> +	     dev_conf->rx_adv_conf.rss_conf.rss_hf) !=
> +	    dev_info.flow_type_rss_offloads) {
> +		RTE_PMD_DEBUG_TRACE("ethdev port_id=%d invalid rss_hf: "
> +				    "0x%"PRIx64", valid value: 0x%"PRIx64"\n",
> +				    port_id,
> +				    dev_conf->rx_adv_conf.rss_conf.rss_hf,
> +				    dev_info.flow_type_rss_offloads);
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +	}
> +

Hi Thomas,

This can break the PMDs that are not setting flow_type_rss_offloads properly.
How can we highlight this so that PMD owners can double check?