[dpdk-dev] Does I210 NIC support Flow director filters?

[Kamraan Nasim]

Many thanks Helin and Bruce :)

Now if 1Gb NICs don't support fdir filters then im wondering how would we
count the number of packets matching a filter.

Regular 5tuple filters don't have any stats similar to "fdirmatch"(in the
rte_eth_stats <http://dpdk.org/doc/api/structrte__eth__stats.html> struct).
One way I can think of is to use regular ibytes/ipackets stats for the
queue to which the packets are being redirected in the 5tuple filter but
this seems a bit hacky + there is no way to distinguish this packet
throughput from the regular traffic that the NIC is forwarding to that
specific queue.

Is there a way to EXCLUSIVELY bind a 5tuple filter to an RSS queue so that
only matched traffic is forwarded there?


--Kam

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 5:27 AM, Bruce Richardson <
bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:21:08PM -0500, Kamraan Nasim wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've been using DPDK fdir filter APIs for 82599 NIC(Niantic) and they
> work
> > very well.
> >
> > Was wondering if I these could also be used for I210, 1Gbps NICs?
> >
> > The other option is to use 5tuple filters(rte_eth_dev_add_5tuple_filter
> > <
> http://dpdk.org/doc/api/rte__ethdev_8h.html#aaa28adafa65a4f47d4aeceaf1b08381b
> >),
> > however these do not support IPv6 yet.
> >
> >
> > Have people in the community had any luck with configuring L3/L4 hardware
> > filters for the I210 NIC?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Kam
>
> Flow director filters are not supported for 1G NICs. Sorry.
>
> /Bruce
>