RE: [PATCH 0/2] net/mlx5: fix flow rules for external SQ

[Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suanming Mou <suanmingm@nvidia.com>
> Sent: Thursday, November 9, 2023 10:56 AM
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>
> Subject: [PATCH 0/2] net/mlx5: fix flow rules for external SQ
> 
> If representor matching was enabled (device argument repr_matching_en is
> equal to 1, default configuration), then during registration of external SQs,
> mlx5 PMD would not create control flow rules in NIC Tx domain. This caused
> an issue with packet metadata. If a packet sent on external SQ had packet
> metadata attached, then it would be lost when it would go from NIC Tx to FDB
> domain.
> 
> Meanwhile, the external SQ flow rules should be managed individually and not
> be destroyed internally by PMD.
> 
> This series fixes these two issues for the external SQ flow rules in
> rte_pmd_mlx5_external_sq_enable().
> 
> Dariusz Sosnowski (1):
>   net/mlx5: fix missing flow rules for external SQ
> 
> Suanming Mou (1):
>   net/mlx5: fix destroying external representor matched flows
> 
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.h         |  41 ++++++++++
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow.h    |   6 +-
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_hw.c | 132
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_trigger.c |   4 +-
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_txq.c     |  12 ++-
>  5 files changed, 176 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
> 
> --
> 2.34.1

Fixed a typo in the first commit, and fixed a warning for a line too long
Series applied to next-net-mlx,

Kindest regards,
Raslan Darawsheh