Re: [PATCv4 net-next] octeontx2-pf: Add RSS multi group support

From: Saeed Mahameed
Date: Tue Jan 12 2021 - 18:19:26 EST


On Tue, 2021-01-12 at 15:16 -0800, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> On Mon, 2021-01-04 at 12:50 +0530, Geetha sowjanya wrote:
> > Hardware supports 8 RSS groups per interface. Currently we are
> > using
> > only group '0'. This patch allows user to create new RSS
> > groups/contexts
> > and use the same as destination for flow steering rules.
> >
> > usage:
> > To steer the traffic to RQ 2,3
> >
> > ethtool -X eth0 weight 0 0 1 1 context new
> > (It will print the allocated context id number)
> > New RSS context is 1
> >
> > ethtool -N eth0 flow-type tcp4 dst-port 80 context 1 loc 1
> >
> > To delete the context
> > ethtool -X eth0 context 1 delete
> >
> > When an RSS context is removed, the active classification
> > rules using this context are also removed.
> >
> > Change-log:
> >
> > v4
> > - Fixed compiletime warning.
> > - Address Saeed's comments on v3.
> >
>
> This patch is marked as accepted in patchwork
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20210104072039.27297-1-gakula@xxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> but it is not actually applied, maybe resend..
>
>
> you can add:
> Reviewed-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>

I missed Jakub's comment, The patch is already applied, i looked at the
wrong tree.

Thanks.