> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarg...@6wind.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 9:26 PM
> To: Xueming(Steven) Li <xuemi...@mellanox.com>
> Cc: Shahaf Shuler <shah...@mellanox.com>; Nelio Laranjeiro 
> <notificati...@github.com>; Wenzhuo Lu
> <wenzhuo...@intel.com>; Jingjing Wu <jingjing...@intel.com>; Thomas Monjalon 
> <tho...@monjalon.net>;
> dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/2] app/testpmd: only config supported RSS 
> hash types
> 
> Hi Xueming,
> 
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 07:06:48PM +0800, Xueming Li wrote:
> > "port config all rss all" command will fail on PMD that not support
> > any of hard coding RSS hash types. This patch changed hard coding hash
> > types to supported types retrieved from device info.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Xueming Li <xuemi...@mellanox.com>
> 
> Problem is that this patch removes the ability to request "all" RSS types 
> regardless of PMD support.
> 
> Users will expect "all" to behave as documented, however doing so will only 
> result in the limited set
> of types reported by PMDs. For instance at least
> mlx4 doesn't update the flow_type_rss_offloads field since it has never 
> implemented configuration
> support for the legacy RSS API.
> 
> You should add an argument with a different name (e.g. "supported" or
> "default") for that and keep the original meaning for "all".
> 
> Testpmd documentation has to be updated accordingly.

You must want to have a look at first part of this patchset:
http://www.dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2018-April/097849.html

> 
> One more nit below.
> 
> > ---
> >  app/test-pmd/cmdline.c | 7 +++++++
> >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/app/test-pmd/cmdline.c b/app/test-pmd/cmdline.c index
> > 512e3b55e..d357de7e6 100644
> > --- a/app/test-pmd/cmdline.c
> > +++ b/app/test-pmd/cmdline.c
> > @@ -1998,6 +1998,7 @@ cmd_config_rss_parsed(void *parsed_result,  {
> >     struct cmd_config_rss *res = parsed_result;
> >     struct rte_eth_rss_conf rss_conf = { .rss_key_len = 0, };
> > +   struct rte_eth_dev_info dev_info = {0};
> 
> This could be declared in the new block where it's used. Also note that "{0}" 
> is nonstandard syntax,
> use memset() or initialize a field like rss_key_len above.
> 
> >     int diag;
> >     uint8_t i;
> >
> > @@ -2034,6 +2035,12 @@ cmd_config_rss_parsed(void *parsed_result,
> >     }
> >     rss_conf.rss_key = NULL;
> >     for (i = 0; i < rte_eth_dev_count(); i++) {
> > +           if (!strcmp(res->value, "all")) {
> > +                   rte_eth_dev_info_get(i, &dev_info);
> > +                   if (dev_info.flow_type_rss_offloads)
> > +                           rss_conf.rss_hf =
> > +                                   dev_info.flow_type_rss_offloads;
> > +           }
> >             diag = rte_eth_dev_rss_hash_update(i, &rss_conf);
> >             if (diag < 0)
> >                     printf("Configuration of RSS hash at ethernet port %d "
> > --
> > 2.13.3
> >
> 
> 
> --
> Adrien Mazarguil
> 6WIND

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