On 10/12/2017 1:19 PM, Adrien Mazarguil wrote: > This series restores all the control path functionality removed in prior > series "net/mlx4: trim and refactor entire PMD", including: > > - Promiscuous mode. > - All multicast mode. > - MAC address configuration. > - Support for multiple simultaneous MAC addresses. > - Reception of broadcast and user-defined multicast traffic. > - VLAN filters. > - RSS. > > This rework also results in the following enhancements: > > - Support for multiple flow rule priorities (up to 4096). > - Much more comprehensive error messages when failing to create or apply > flow rules. > - Flow rules with the RSS action targeting disparate queues can now overlap > (as long as they take HW limitations into account). > - RSS contexts can be created/destroyed on demand (they were previously > fixed once and for all after applying the first flow rule). > - RSS hash key can be configured per context. > - Rx objects have a smaller memory footprint. > > Note that it should be applied directly before the following series: > > "new mlx4 datapath bypassing ibverbs" > > For which a new version based on top of this one will be submitted soon. > > v2 changes: > > - Moved new memory allocation wrappers from EAL into the mlx4 PMD. > - Re-based on latest dpdk-next-net. > > Adrien Mazarguil (29): > ethdev: expose flow API error helper > net/mlx4: replace bit-field type > net/mlx4: remove Rx QP initializer function > net/mlx4: enhance header files comments > net/mlx4: expose support for flow rule priorities > net/mlx4: clarify flow objects naming scheme > net/mlx4: tidy up flow rule handling code > net/mlx4: compact flow rule error reporting > net/mlx4: add iovec-like allocation wrappers > net/mlx4: merge flow creation and validation code > net/mlx4: allocate drop flow resources on demand > net/mlx4: relax check on missing flow rule target > net/mlx4: refactor internal flow rules > net/mlx4: generalize flow rule priority support > net/mlx4: simplify trigger code for flow rules > net/mlx4: refactor flow item validation code > net/mlx4: add MAC addresses configuration support > net/mlx4: add VLAN filter configuration support > net/mlx4: add flow support for multicast traffic > net/mlx4: restore promisc and allmulti support > net/mlx4: update Rx/Tx callbacks consistently > net/mlx4: fix invalid errno value sign > net/mlx4: drop live queue reconfiguration support > net/mlx4: allocate queues and mbuf rings together > net/mlx4: convert Rx path to work queues > net/mlx4: remove unnecessary check > net/mlx4: add RSS flow rule action support > net/mlx4: disable UDP support in RSS flow rules > net/mlx4: add RSS support outside flow API
Series applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.
