[PATCH v3] net/i40e: support enable/disable source pruning

[David Marchand]

On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 3:58 AM Mingjin Ye <mingjinx.ye at intel.com> wrote:
>
> VRRP advertisement packets are dropped on i40e PF device because
> when a MAC address is added to a device, packets originating from
> that MAC address are dropped.
> This patch adds a PMD specific API to enable/disable source
> pruning to fix above issue.
>
> Bugzilla ID: 648
>
> Fixes: 94b3c1a72507 ("net/i40e: move testpmd commands")
> Fixes: bce83974ba2c ("net/i40e: set Tx loopback from PF")
> Fixes: 96974a6600ec ("net/i40e: move private APIs to a specific file")
> Fixes: 689bba33272d ("i40e: add VEB switching support")
> Fixes: 440499cf5376 ("net/i40e: support floating VEB")
> Fixes: ef4c16fd9148 ("net/i40e: refactor RSS flow")

I see this as a new feature.

Please don't mark faulty any commit that touched this code (especially
the ones that only moved code around).
This is confusing.


> Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Cc: stable maintainers.

This commit changes the default behavior, with no way to return to the
old behavior (afaics).
Backporting it poses a risk of breaking existing applications.


>
> Signed-off-by: Mingjin Ye <mingjinx.ye at intel.com>


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David Marchand