Hello David, Can we first understand what you would like to achieve? Accordingly, we can suggest a way to do so.
Regards, Asaf Penso >-----Original Message----- >From: David Vodak <vo...@cesnet.cz> >Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2022 5:29 PM >To: Matan Azrad <ma...@nvidia.com>; Slava Ovsiienko ><viachesl...@nvidia.com> >Cc: dev@dpdk.org >Subject: Egress RTE flow rule rule with mark in matching pattern on mlx5 > >Hello, > >I am trying to offload egress flow rule with mark in the matching >pattern to nvidia NICs ConnectX-5 and ConnectX-6, but I keep getting the >same results. I am using DPDK 21.11.1. > >If I try to offload this rule to mlx5 NIC, without any device arguments, >it says that I need to enable extended metadata feature: > > ># dpdk-testpmd -a 65:00.0 -- -i >EAL: Detected CPU lcores: 40 >EAL: Detected NUMA nodes: 1 >EAL: Detected shared linkage of DPDK >EAL: Multi-process socket /var/run/dpdk/rte/mp_socket >EAL: Selected IOVA mode 'PA' >EAL: No free 1048576 kB hugepages reported on node 0 >EAL: No available 1048576 kB hugepages reported >EAL: Probe PCI driver: mlx5_pci (15b3:1017) device: 0000:65:00.0 (socket 0) >TELEMETRY: No legacy callbacks, legacy socket not created >Interactive-mode selected >testpmd: create a new mbuf pool <mb_pool_0>: n=459456, size=2176, >socket=0 >testpmd: preferred mempool ops selected: ring_mp_mc > >Warning! port-topology=paired and odd forward ports number, the last >port will pair with itself. > >Configuring Port 0 (socket 0) >Port 0: 1C:34:DA:41:66:1C >Checking link statuses... >Done >testpmd> flow create 0 egress group 0 pattern eth / mark id spec 4 id >mask 4 / end actions set_mac_dst mac_addr FE:FE:CA:FE:FE:FE / end >port_flow_complain(): Caught PMD error type 13 (specific pattern item): >cause: 0x7ffc030aa198, extended metadata feature isn't enabled: >Operation not supported > > >If I try to run testpmd with dv_xmeta_en set to 1 or 2, I can only >create that rule in group that does not equal 0. But I cannot offload a >rule which contains JUMP action, so I cannot jump to group, where the >rule with mark in the matching pattern can be offloaded. > > ># dpdk-testpmd -a 65:00.0,dv_xmeta_en=1 -- -i >EAL: Detected CPU lcores: 40 >EAL: Detected NUMA nodes: 1 >EAL: Detected shared linkage of DPDK >EAL: Multi-process socket /var/run/dpdk/rte/mp_socket >EAL: Selected IOVA mode 'PA' >EAL: No free 1048576 kB hugepages reported on node 0 >EAL: No available 1048576 kB hugepages reported >EAL: Probe PCI driver: mlx5_pci (15b3:1017) device: 0000:65:00.0 (socket 0) >TELEMETRY: No legacy callbacks, legacy socket not created >Interactive-mode selected >testpmd: create a new mbuf pool <mb_pool_0>: n=459456, size=2176, >socket=0 >testpmd: preferred mempool ops selected: ring_mp_mc > >Warning! port-topology=paired and odd forward ports number, the last >port will pair with itself. > >Configuring Port 0 (socket 0) >Port 0: 1C:34:DA:41:66:1C >Checking link statuses... >Done >testpmd> flow create 0 egress group 0 pattern eth / mark id spec 4 id >mask 4 / end actions set_mac_dst mac_addr FE:FE:CA:FE:FE:FE / end >port_flow_complain(): Caught PMD error type 1 (cause unspecified): >cannot create modification action: Cannot allocate memory >testpmd> flow create 0 egress group 1 pattern eth / mark id spec 4 id >mask 4 / end actions set_mac_dst mac_addr FE:FE:CA:FE:FE:FE / end >Flow rule #0 created >testpmd> flow create 0 egress pattern eth / end actions jump group 1 / end >port_flow_complain(): Caught PMD error type 1 (cause unspecified): >cannot create modification action: Cannot allocate memory > > >Is there any way how can I work this out or do I need to start using >similar pattern items such as meta? > >Thank you, > >David
