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> From: David Marchand <[email protected]>
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> Subject: [RFC PATCH v2] ethdev: advertise flow restore in mbuf
>
> As reported by Ilya [1], unconditionally calling
> rte_flow_get_restore_info() impacts an application performance for drivers
> that do not provide this ops.
> It could also impact processing of packets that require no call to
> rte_flow_get_restore_info() at all.
>
> Register a dynamic mbuf flag when an application negotiates tunnel
> metadata delivery (calling rte_eth_rx_metadata_negotiate() with
> RTE_ETH_RX_METADATA_TUNNEL_ID).
>
> Drivers then advertise that metadata can be extracted by setting this
> dynamic flag in each mbuf.
>
> The application then calls rte_flow_get_restore_info() only when required.
>
> Link: http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/5248c2ca-f2a6-3fb0-38b8-
> [email protected]/
> Signed-off-by: David Marchand <[email protected]>
> ---
Hello David,
App segfaults at startup with this patch applied on main:
$ ./build/app/dpdk-testpmd -a 0000:86:00.0 -- -i
#0 0x0000000000a11133 in rte_flow_restore_info_dynflag_register (flag=0x0) at
../lib/ethdev/rte_flow.c:1467
#1 0x00000000009f6f7f in rte_eth_rx_metadata_negotiate (port_id=0,
features=0x7fffffffe280)
at ../lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.c:6446
#2 0x00000000004eb003 in eth_rx_metadata_negotiate_mp (port_id=0) at
../app/test-pmd/testpmd.c:572
#3 0x00000000004eca7d in init_config_port_offloads (pid=0, socket_id=1) at
../app/test-pmd/testpmd.c:1627
#4 0x00000000004ecf0d in init_config () at ../app/test-pmd/testpmd.c:1737
#5 0x00000000004f3b15 in main (argc=2, argv=0x7fffffffe5e0) at
../app/test-pmd/testpmd.c:4592
Device: ConnectX-6 Dx
Regards,
Ali
