Hi, > -----Original Message----- > From: Moti Haimovsky <mo...@mellanox.com> > Sent: Monday, July 1, 2019 12:34 PM > To: Raslan Darawsheh <rasl...@mellanox.com>; Slava Ovsiienko > <viachesl...@mellanox.com> > Cc: dev@dpdk.org > Subject: [Suspected-Phishing][PATCH v6 0/2] net/mlx5: remove TCF support > from PMD > > Today, it is possible to offload an interface flow rules to the hardware using > DPDK flow commands. > With mlx5 it is also possible to offload a limited set of flow rules to the > mlxsw > (or E-switch) using the same DPDK flow commands. > A 'transfer' attribute was added to the flow rule creation command in order > to distinguish between configuring port flows and E-switch flows. The > commands destined for the E-switch are transposed to TC-flower rules and > are send, as Netlink messages, to the mlx5 driver, or more precisely to the > netdev which represent the mlxsw port. > With the addition to the PMD of E-switch configuration via DR (direct verbs > rules) it is now possible to configure the E-switch using these commands > instead of using TC-Flower messages. > Doing so will allow us to remove the TCF support and the dependency of > libmnl from the PMD. > The purpose of this RFC is to propose configuring the E-switch flow filtering > using DR, to remove the TCF support from the PMD and to remove the > dependency of the PMD in libmnl. > As for today VLAN insertion or removal is not supported in DR, this support > will be added in separate commits. > > Moti Haimovsky (2): > net/mlx5: fix crashing testpmd on null drv opts > net/mlx5: remove TCF support from PMD
Series applied to next-net-mlx Kindest regards, Raslan Darawsheh
