Hi Souvik,

Could you try with kernel driver (version 2.4.3) first? In my environment, 
disable vlan strip in DPDK works with kernel driver version 2.4.3.

My test steps with testpmd:
>set fwd rxonly
>set verbose 1
>set promisc 0 off
>vlan set strip off 0
Then send a vlan packet with VF mac address.

Best Regards,
Beilei Xing

From: Dey, Souvik [mailto:so...@rbbn.com]
Sent: Friday, June 8, 2018 11:22 PM
To: Xing, Beilei <beilei.x...@intel.com>; Wu, Jingjing <jingjing...@intel.com>; 
d...@dpdk.org
Cc: users@dpdk.org
Subject: I40evf VLAN stripping disable

Hi i40e/i40evf maintainers,

I was testing VLANs with i40evf pmd and is hitting the below issue.

I have the following configuration:
- host runs with Linux pf i40e driver(version 2.4.6)
- guest runs with DPDK 17.11.2 vf i40e driver

When I am sending a vlan packet from the outside to the guest, on the guest, I 
receive the packet which has the PKT_RX_VLAN_STRIPPED flag set although I'm not 
asking for it.
Even though my DPDK app has the rte_eth_conf.rxmode.hw_vlan_strip set to 0 and 
also verified that the 
i40evf_disable_vlan_strip(VIRTCHNL_OP_DISABLE_VLAN_STRIPPING) function is 
getting called and not returning any error from the linux pf driver.
Is this the default behavior that the VLAN will be always stripped by the PF 
irrespective of the setting ? Should the DPDK version take care of the 
re-adding the tag back to the packet in case hw_vlan_strip is disabled ? What 
should be best way of handling it ? Is it a bug in DPDK or I am missing 
something here.

I do see in the linux i40evf driver we are insert vlan header in the received 
packets in some cases.

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Regards,
Souvik

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