consider reflecting this in release notes
Acked-by: Vladimir Medvedkin <[email protected]>
On 9/16/2026 1:18 PM, Anatoly Burakov wrote:
The ixgbe driver's rte_flow implementation has always endeavored to keep
flows across device restart, however it never advertised this capability.
Advertise it explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov<[email protected]>
---
drivers/net/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
b/drivers/net/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
index 78f3ab57aea..48b1957ea94 100644
--- a/drivers/net/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
@@ -4002,6 +4002,9 @@ ixgbe_dev_info_get(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, struct
rte_eth_dev_info *dev_info)
dev_info->reta_size = ixgbe_reta_size_get(hw->mac.type);
dev_info->flow_type_rss_offloads = IXGBE_RSS_OFFLOAD_ALL;
+ /* rte_flow rules are kept across dev_stop/dev_start and replayed on start */
+ dev_info->dev_capa |= RTE_ETH_DEV_CAPA_FLOW_RULE_KEEP;
+
dev_info->speed_capa = RTE_ETH_LINK_SPEED_1G | RTE_ETH_LINK_SPEED_10G;
if (hw->device_id == IXGBE_DEV_ID_X550EM_A_1G_T ||
hw->device_id == IXGBE_DEV_ID_X550EM_A_1G_T_L)
--
Regards,
Vladimir
