[dpdk-stable] [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix the RSS consistency check of meter policy

[Raslan Darawsheh]

Hi,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bing Zhao <bingz at nvidia.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2021 4:16 PM
> To: Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at nvidia.com>; Matan Azrad
> <matan at nvidia.com>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland at nvidia.com>;
> stable at dpdk.org
> Subject: [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix the RSS consistency check of meter policy
> 
> After yellow color actions in the metering policy were supported,
> the RSS could be used for both green and yellow colors and only the
> queues attribute could be different.
> 
> When specifying the attributes of a RSS, some fields can be ignored
> and some default values will be used in PMD. For example, there is a
> default RSS key in the PMD and it will be used to create the TIR if
> nothing is provided by the application.
> 
> The default value cases were missed in the current implementation
> and it would cause some false positives or crashes.
> 
> The comparison function should be adjusted to take all cases into
> consideration when RSS is used for both green and yellow colors.
> 
> Fixes: 4b7bf3ffb473 ("net/mlx5: support yellow in meter policy validation")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bingz at nvidia.com>

Patch applied to next-net-mlx,

Kindest regards,
Raslan Darawsheh