[dpdk-dev] Bug in i40e PMD for flexible payload

[Michael Habibi]

I will have one of my team members follow the instructions and we'll have a
patch out this week hopefully.

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 7:04 AM, Bruce Richardson <
bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 01:44:46PM -0500, Michael Habibi wrote:
> > We are using the i40 implementation to configure flow director with
> > flexible payload rules. When setting up rules, it allows you to set a
> value
> > to 63 to disable the rule (NONUSE_FLX_PIT_DEST_OFF). However, the macro
> in
> > question is always adding an offset value 50
> > (I40E_FLX_OFFSET_IN_FIELD_VECTOR). This doesn't work when you use it in
> > conjunction with NONUSE_FLX_PIT_DEST_OFF to disable it, because instead
> of
> > taking 63 as is, it does 63 + 50 and breaks the functionality.
> >
> > We used the following fix and it appears to work. Just sharing with the
> > DPDK team in case they want to bring it in.
> >
> Thanks for this. Can you perhaps resubmit this fix in the form of an
> official
> patch to DPDK, including a proper sign-off on it. The details for
> contributing
> patches to DPDK is documented here:
> http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/contributing/patches.html
>
> Without a signoff, we can't take in your code and use it.
>
> Regards,
> /Bruce
>