Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 0/4] net/mlx5: support meter policy operations

[Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Li Zhang <lizh@nvidia.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2021 6:12 AM
> To: dekelp@nvidia.com; Ori Kam <orika@nvidia.com>; Slava Ovsiienko
> <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>; Matan Azrad <matan@nvidia.com>; Shahaf
> Shuler <shahafs@nvidia.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon
> <thomas@monjalon.net>; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>; Roni
> Bar Yanai <roniba@nvidia.com>
> Subject: [PATCH v7 0/4] net/mlx5: support meter policy operations
> 
> MLX5 PMD checks the validation of actions in policy while add
> a new meter policy, if pass the validation, allocates the new
> policy object from the meter policy indexed memory pool.
> 
> It is common to use the same policy for multiple meters.
> MLX5 PMD supports two types of policy: termination policy and
> no-termination policy.
> 
> The termination policy must have a fate action as in the policy
> actions, it can support QUEUE, RSS, PORT_ID, DROP, JUMP, MARK and
> SET_TAG
> actions if policy color is GREEN, also supports DROP action
> if policy color is RED.
> 
> The no-termination policy uses policy ID 0 as default policy,
> it is created internal and cannot be changed by API. The default
> policy red action is drop, green action is jump to suffix table.
> Create this policy by policy API with green/yellow no action,
> red with drop action.
> One example in testpmd command:
> add port meter policy 0 g_actions end y_actions end r_actions drop / end
> 
> Depends-on: series=16520  ("Add ASO meter support in MLX5 PMD ")
> https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=16520
> 
> Depends-on: series=16524  ("Support meter policy API ")
> https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=16524
> 
> v7:
> * Rebase.
> V6:
> * Fix comments about Depends-on.
> V5:
> * Fix comments about destory meter on different ports.
> V4:
> * Fix comments about rte_mtr_meter_policy_add.
> V3:
> * Fix comments about Depends-on.
> V2:
> * Add MLX5_MTR_DEFAULT_POLICY_ID in MLX5 PMD.
> 
> Li Zhang (3):
>   net/mlx5: support meter policy operations
>   net/mlx5: support meter creation with policy
>   net/mlx5: prepare sub-policy for a flow with meter
> 
> Shun Hao (1):
>   net/mlx5: connect meter policy to created flows
> 
>  doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst           |   12 +
>  drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_os.c   |   13 +-
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c            |   77 +-
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.h            |  212 +++-
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow.c       |  654 ++++++++--
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow.h       |  119 +-
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_aso.c   |   10 +-
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_dv.c    | 1896
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_meter.c |  742 ++++++++++-
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_trigger.c    |    1 +
>  10 files changed, 3373 insertions(+), 363 deletions(-)
> 
> --
> 2.27.0

Series applied to next-net-mlx,

Kindest regards,
Raslan Darawsheh