Hi, I face a similar problem with Tom, could you please shed some light on this issue? Dynamicity and performance are my two concerns as well.
Thanks, Georgios On May 7, 2017 1:00 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to dispatch packets to queue according to VLAN or MAC address > with Intel 82599 cards. But the question remains general. > > I tried MAC-VLAN flow director mode but it seems unsupported by those > cards and Intel XL710 ones also (With testpmd, 82599 refuse to initialize > and I get operation not supported for XL710). Is it really an hardware > limitation or should support be coming soon? > > With VMDq, I could create pools with MAC/VLAN filters but the problem is > that MAC and VLAN assignation are static, at initialization time. I'd > prefer a dynamic solution where I can change filtering parameters while > running. > > Last resort seems to use VFs, but it's a bit overkill and I'm not sure > about the performance penalty. Is it my only option? > > Thanks, > > Tom >
