[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ethdev: force RSS offload rules again

[Thomas Monjalon]

04/06/2018 09:56, Shahaf Shuler:
> Sunday, June 3, 2018 5:15 PM, Ferruh Yigit:
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] ethdev: force RSS offload rules again
> > 
> > On 6/3/2018 11:41 AM, Shahaf Shuler wrote:
> > > Thursday, May 31, 2018 4:23 PM, Ferruh Yigit:
> > >> Subject: [PATCH] ethdev: force RSS offload rules again
> > >>
> > >> PMDs should provide supported RSS hash functions via
> > >> dev_info.flow_type_rss_offloads variable.
> > >>
> > >> There is a check in ethdev if requested RSS hash function is
> > >> supported by PMD or not.
> > >> This check has been relaxed in previous release to not return an
> > >> error when a non supported has function requested [1], this has been
> > >> done to not break the applications.
> > >>
> > >> Adding the error return back.
> > >> PMDs need to provide correct list of supported hash functions and
> > >> applications need to take care this information before configuring
> > >> the RSS otherwise they will get an error from APIs:
> > >> rte_eth_dev_rss_hash_update()
> > >> rte_eth_dev_configure()
> > >
> > > Are the current app/examples in DPDK tree behave accordingly?
> > 
> > I tried a few which were good but I don't know about all.
> > 
> > That is why we should merge this patch early so that we can detect and fix
> > ones fails.
> 
> Acked-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs at mellanox.com>

Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>