From: Ori Kam <orika@mellanox.com>
To: Ori Kam <orika@mellanox.com>,
Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
"arybchenko@solarflare.com" <arybchenko@solarflare.com>,
"david.marchand@redhat.com" <david.marchand@redhat.com>,
John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>,
Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: update RSS action with best effort
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 12:39:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM6PR05MB5176FF9AE860C44B32C0DBFFDB4B0@AM6PR05MB5176.eurprd05.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1596528811-138806-1-git-send-email-orika@mellanox.com>
Hi All,
Can you please review and ack it? so it will be merged in 20.08 version.
Thanks,
Ori
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ori Kam <orika@mellanox.com>
>
> Using the rte_flow action RSS types field,
> may result in undefined outcome.
>
> For example selecting both UDP and TCP,
> selecting TCP RSS type but the pattern is targeting UDP traffic.
> another option is that the PMD doesn't support all requested types.
>
> Until now, it wasn't clear what will happen in such cases.
> This commit clarify this issue by stating that the PMD
> will work in the best-effort mode.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ori Kam <orika@mellanox.com>
> ---
> v2:
> * Based on ML, update that using only unsupported hash type
> may cause the flow to be rejected by PMD.
> ---
> doc/guides/prog_guide/rte_flow.rst | 11 +++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/rte_flow.rst
> b/doc/guides/prog_guide/rte_flow.rst
> index 3e5cd1e..d730b66 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/rte_flow.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/rte_flow.rst
> @@ -1735,6 +1735,17 @@ unspecified "best-effort" settings from the
> underlying PMD, which depending
> on the flow rule, may result in anything ranging from empty (single queue)
> to all-inclusive RSS.
>
> +Best effort will be used, in case there is a conflict inside the rule.
> +The conflict can be the result of:
> +
> +- Conflicting RSS types, for example setting both UDP and TCP.
> +
> +- Conflicting between RSS types and the requested pattern to match,
> + for example matching on UDP and hashing RSS on TCP.
> +
> +If requested RSS hash type is not supported,
> +and no supported hash type is requested then the PMD may reject the flow.
> +
> Note: RSS hash result is stored in the ``hash.rss`` mbuf field which
> overlaps ``hash.fdir.lo``. Since `Action: MARK`_ sets the ``hash.fdir.hi``
> field only, both can be requested simultaneously.
> --
> 1.8.3.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-05 12:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-03 14:28 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " Ori Kam
2020-08-03 14:33 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-08-03 15:22 ` Ori Kam
2020-08-03 15:33 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-08-03 15:47 ` Ori Kam
2020-08-03 16:03 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-08-03 16:53 ` Ori Kam
2020-08-03 15:40 ` David Marchand
2020-08-03 15:49 ` Ori Kam
2020-08-03 15:55 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-08-03 16:12 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-09-14 14:29 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-08-04 8:13 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Ori Kam
2020-08-05 12:39 ` Ori Kam [this message]
2020-08-05 13:39 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-08-05 14:08 ` Ori Kam
2020-08-06 12:14 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-08-06 16:55 ` Ori Kam
2020-09-14 14:38 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-08-07 5:02 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Ori Kam
2020-08-07 9:41 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-08-10 7:40 ` Ori Kam
2020-08-10 9:53 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-08-10 15:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] " Ori Kam
2020-09-14 14:43 ` Ferruh Yigit
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