On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 03:45:31PM +0200, Adrien Mazarguil wrote: > Isolated mode can be requested by applications on individual ports to avoid > ingress traffic outside of the flow rules they define. > > Besides making ingress more deterministic, it allows PMDs to safely reuse > resources otherwise assigned to handle the remaining traffic, such as > global RSS configuration settings, VLAN filters, MAC address entries, > legacy filter API rules and so on in order to expand the set of possible > flow rule types. > > To minimize code complexity, PMDs implementing this mode may provide > partial (or even no) support for flow rules when not enabled (e.g. no > priorities, no RSS action). Applications written to use the flow API are > therefore encouraged to enable it. > > Once effective, leaving isolated mode may not be possible depending on PMD > implementation. > > Signed-off-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarg...@6wind.com> > Cc: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com> > Cc: John McNamara <john.mcnam...@intel.com> > Cc: "O'Driscoll, Tim" <tim.odrisc...@intel.com> > Cc: "Lu, Wenzhuo" <wenzhuo...@intel.com> > Cc: John Daley <johnd...@cisco.com> > Cc: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.anan...@intel.com> > Cc: Helin Zhang <helin.zh...@intel.com> > Cc: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranje...@6wind.com> > Cc: Andrew Rybchenko <arybche...@solarflare.com> > Cc: Pascal Mazon <pascal.ma...@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranje...@6wind.com> By the way I have implemented it for mlx5 driver [1], your patch needs to be updated on master-net, is does not apply like this. Thanks, [1] http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/24487/ -- Nélio Laranjeiro 6WIND
