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From: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>
To: Tom Barbette <barbette@kth.se>, users <users@dpdk.org>,
	Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@mellanox.com>
Cc: Olga Shern <olgas@mellanox.com>, Yongseok Koh <yskoh@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] mlx5 flow MARK action does not work with RSS
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 14:04:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM0PR0502MB3795470067C7FF728D3F4876C3910@AM0PR0502MB3795.eurprd05.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0521a89a-2092-f24f-1e1b-89a79dd91a05@kth.se>

Thursday, January 31, 2019 2:55 PM, Tom Barbette:
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] mlx5 flow MARK action does not work with RSS
> 
> On 2019-01-31 09:30, Tom Barbette wrote:
> > I therefore tried different things and found that the problem was a
> > misconfiguration of the RSS action. Thanks!
> >
> 
> Actually, it was because the rule installation fails when the flow is not
> classifying on "ipv4", because of the RSS parameter.
> 
> testpmd> flow create 0 ingress pattern eth type is 0x0800 / end actions
> mark id 1 / rss / end
> Caught error type 1 (cause unspecified): hardware refuses to create
> flow: Invalid argument
> 
> testpmd> flow create 0 ingress pattern eth type is 0x0800 / ipv4 / end
> actions mark id 1 / rss / end
> Flow rule #0 created
> 
> Isn't it technically possible to have a "default" action? Mark the flow then let
> the packet be as usual?

Not sure what you mean here by packet be as usual? 

 That would be so much better than tracking which
> rules classify which protocol and change the action according to that... The
> NIC does it by itself already...

What is the functionally you seek? It will much help to propose a solution. 

> 
> Thanks,
> Tom

  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-31 14:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-30 17:47 Tom Barbette
2019-01-31  6:42 ` Shahaf Shuler
2019-01-31  8:30   ` Tom Barbette
2019-01-31 12:54     ` Tom Barbette
2019-01-31 14:04       ` Shahaf Shuler [this message]
2019-01-31 16:40         ` Tom Barbette
2019-02-03 12:44           ` Shahaf Shuler

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