[PATCH] net/mlx5: fix the implicit tag insertion in sample flow

[Raslan Darawsheh]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jiawei(Jonny) Wang <jiaweiw at nvidia.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2022 6:00 AM
> To: Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at nvidia.com>; Matan Azrad
> <matan at nvidia.com>; Ori Kam <orika at nvidia.com>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland at nvidia.com>;
> stable at dpdk.org
> Subject: [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix the implicit tag insertion in sample flow
> 
> The flow with sample action was split into two sub-flows,
> and the implicit tag action with unique id was added in the prefix
> sub-flow, the suffix sub-flow used the tag item to match with that
> unique id, and the implicit set tag action was inserted next to
> the sample action.
> 
> While there's either PUSH VLAN action or ENCAP action preceding the
> sample action, implicit set tag action was added after PUSH VLAN or
> ENCAP actions, causing flow creation failure due to rdma-core
> does not support this action order.
> 
> This patch ensures the implicit set tag action is inserted before
> either PUSH VLAN or encap action (if any) in the prefix sub-flow.
> 
> Fixes: 6a951567c159 ("net/mlx5: support E-Switch mirroring and jump in one
> flow")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiawei Wang <jiaweiw at nvidia.com>
> Acked-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at nvidia.com>

Patch applied to next-net-mlx,

Kindest regards,
Raslan Darawsheh