[dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2 1/5] net/virtio: add initial RSS support

[Andrew Rybchenko]

On 9/22/21 12:57 PM, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> Provide the capability to update the hash key, hash types
> and RETA table on the fly (without needing to stop/start
> the device). However, the key length and the number of RETA
> entries are fixed to 40B and 128 entries respectively. This
> is done in order to simplify the design, but may be
> revisited later as the Virtio spec provides this
> flexibility.
> 
> Note that only VIRTIO_NET_F_RSS support is implemented,
> VIRTIO_NET_F_HASH_REPORT, which would enable reporting the
> packet RSS hash calculated by the device into mbuf.rss, is
> not yet supported.
> 
> Regarding the default RSS configuration, it has been
> chosen to use the default Intel ixgbe key as default key,
> and default RETA is a simple modulo between the hash and
> the number of Rx queues.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>

RSS may be configured on rte_eth_dev_configure() stage
using eth_conf->rx_adv_conf.rss_conf. It looks like the
patch does not handle it.