[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/bonding: add rte flow support

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 4/24/2018 1:54 PM, Doherty, Declan wrote:
> Firstly, apologies on the very large delay on reviewing this. This looks 
> good to me and I've verified that flow configuration propagates as 
> expected to bonded slaves using IXGBE PMDs for testing.
> 
> I had to do some minor rebasing to get the patch to apply cleanly to 
> next-net, so I'll leave it up to Ferruh on whether he wants a rebased 
> revision of the patch or if he is happy to apply as is and handle the 
> rebasing himself.
> 
> I will do a v6 of the tunnel encap/decap patchset rebased to this 
> patchset to handle the changes to the rte_flow_query API as I need to 
> send a new revision of that to fix some whitespace issue I added in the 
> last revision of it.
> 
> Regards
> Declan
> 
> On 28/03/2018 12:16 PM, Matan Azrad wrote:
>> Ethernet devices which are grouped by bonding PMD, aka slaves, are
>> sharing the same queues and RSS configurations and their Rx burst
>> functions must be managed by the bonding PMD according to the bonding
>> architectuer.
>    ^^
> typo
>>
>> So, it makes sense to configure the same flow rules for all the bond
>> slaves to allow consistency in packet flow management.
>>
>> Add rte flow support to the bonding PMD to manage all flow
>> configuration to the bonded slaves.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Matan Azrad <matan at mellanox.com>
>> ---
> ....
>>
> 
> Acked-by: Declan Doherty <declan.doherty at intel.com>

Applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.