[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/4] net/bond: dedicated hw queues for LACP control traffic

[Declan Doherty]

On 04/07/17 17:46, Declan Doherty wrote:
> From: Tomasz Kulasek <tomaszx.kulasek at intel.com>
> 
> Add support for hardware flow classification of LACP control plane
> traffic to be redirect to a dedicated receive queue on each slave which
> is not visible to application. Also enables a dedicate transmit queue
> for LACP traffic which allows complete decoupling of control and data
> paths.
> 
> This only applies to bonding devices running in mode 4
> (link-aggegration-802.3ad).
> 
> Introduce two new APIs to support enable/disabled of dedicated
> queues.
> 
> - rte_eth_bond_8023ad_dedicated_queues_enable
> - rte_eth_bond_8023ad_dedicated_queues_disable
> 
> rte_eth_bond_8023ad_dedicated_queues_enable must be called before
> bonding port is configured or started to reserved and configure the
> dedicated queuesh.
> 
> When this option is enabled all slaves must support flow filtering
> by ethernet type and support one additional tx and rx queue on
> each slave.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tomasz Kulasek <tomaszx.kulasek at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Declan Doherty <declan.doherty at intel.com>
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> 

Acked-by: Declan Doherty <declan.doherty at intel.com>