Re: [?bug] Can't get switchdev mode work on ConnectX-4 Card

[Mark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com>]

On 22/04/2025 10:15, Qiyu Yan wrote:
> Thank you for your reply!
> 
> 在 2025/4/22 14:42, Mark Bloch 写道:
>> It’s likely that the issue stems from cx4-lx not supporting metadata
>> matching, which in turn prevents the driver from enabling bridge
>> offloads.
>>
>> Could you please confirm this by checking the output of the following
>> command?
>> # devlink dev param show pci/0000:c1:00.0 name esw_port_metadata
> 
> $ sudo devlink dev param show pci/0000:c1:00.0 name esw_port_metadata
> pci/0000:c1:00.0:
>   name esw_port_metadata type driver-specific
>     values:
>       cmode runtime value false
> 
> I guess the "value false"  here means not supported.

Yes

>> A better approach might be to check for metadata matching support
>> ahead of time and avoid registering for bridge offloads if it's not
>> supported.
> Just wondering what is the penalty of not having such offload?
> 
> The reason I am trying to enable switchdev is that I wanted to tag multiple vlans for a single VF. I see there is something called VGT+ in the document of OFED driver but the same function don't seem to exist in the mainline driver, so I considered to use the switchdev. But if the performance penalty of switchdev can be high I might want to switch to OFED driver instead.
> 

OFED is unrelated to upstream.

so you want to do QinQ (not sure cx4-lx supports qinq)
or just different vlans based on the traffic?
I don't think cx4-lx supports vlan push offloads.

You can still use software push vlan action using regular tc rules,
something like this:

tc filter add dev pf0vf0_rep protocol ip parent ffff: flower skip_hw dst_mac 50:6b:4b:b4:ac:0a src_mac 8a:ee:f9:37:bb:ef action vlan push id 100 action mirred egress redirect dev uplink0_rep

Mark

>> This way the driver won't offload the bridge but
>> it will also won't prevent users from adding the reps to bridge.
>> Could you try the diff below and let me know if it resolves
>> the issue for you?
> Will try but this will take some time for me to do so.
> Best,
> Qiyu
>