[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/vmxnet3: restore correct filtering
Charles (Chas) Williams
ciwillia at brocade.com
Wed Aug 2 01:47:23 CEST 2017
On 08/01/2017 07:41 PM, Shrikrishna Khare wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2017, Charles (Chas) Williams wrote:
>
>> We should only restore shadow_vfta when hw_vlan_filter is active.
>> Otherwise, we should restore the previous filtering behavior.
>>
>> Fixes: f003fc383487("vmxnet3: enable vlan filtering")
>> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chas Williams <ciwillia at brocade.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_ethdev.c | 5 ++++-
>> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_ethdev.c
>> index ab5a824..3910991 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_ethdev.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_ethdev.c
>> @@ -1219,7 +1219,10 @@ vmxnet3_dev_promiscuous_disable(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
>> struct vmxnet3_hw *hw = dev->data->dev_private;
>> uint32_t *vf_table = hw->shared->devRead.rxFilterConf.vfTable;
>>
>> - memcpy(vf_table, hw->shadow_vfta, VMXNET3_VFT_TABLE_SIZE);
>> + if (dev->data->dev_conf.rxmode.hw_vlan_filter)
>> + memcpy(vf_table, hw->shadow_vfta, VMXNET3_VFT_TABLE_SIZE);
>> + else
>> + memset(vf_table, 0xff, VMXNET3_VFT_TABLE_SIZE);
>
> From the device emulation standpoint, vf_table array set to all 1s means
> that rx filtering is enabled but all vlan ID are allowed, while vf_table
> array set to all 0s means that no vlan ID filtering is done.
>
> So, it is better to go with all 0s rather than all 1s, it is also more
> efficient for the emulation.
>
> This is an existing problem in vmxnet3_dev_vlan_offload_set as well.
That may be the case, but this patch isn't the place to address that.
If this needs changed, there should be a follow on patch that makes
this change.
>
>> vmxnet3_dev_set_rxmode(hw, VMXNET3_RXM_PROMISC, 0);
>> VMXNET3_WRITE_BAR1_REG(hw, VMXNET3_REG_CMD,
>> VMXNET3_CMD_UPDATE_VLAN_FILTERS);
>> --
>> 2.1.4
>>
>>
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