Re: [PATCH v1 00/15] IXGBE fixes and cleanups

[Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2026 at 12:14:29PM +0100, Anatoly Burakov wrote:
> This patchset fixes a bunch of very old issues in flow management
> in IXGBE driver, such as:
> 
> - storing process-local pointers in shared memory
> - incorrect L4 protocol matching for FDIR
> - wrong handling of SCTP flow items
> - reading stale FDIR state after flow destroy/flush
> - storing all flows in global lists
> 
> In addition, some cleanup is also performed - refactors, moving
> things around to avoid accessing process-local state, and
> writing read-only values at init instead of deep in FDIR.
> 
> Finally, FDIR was also rejecting protocol-only matches for TCP
> and UDP, these are now supported.
> 
> Depends on flow dump patchset: https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=38016
> 
> Anatoly Burakov (15):
>   net/ixgbe: fix flows not being scoped to port
>   net/ixgbe: fix shared PF pointer in representor
>   net/ixgbe: fix non-shared data in IPsec session
>   net/ixgbe: fix SCTP protocol-only flow parsing
>   net/ixgbe: fix L4 protocol mask handling
>   net/ixgbe: reset flow state on clear paths
>   net/ixgbe: store max VFs in adapter
>   net/ixgbe: do not use flow list to count flows
>   net/ixgbe: remove redundant flow tracking lists
>   net/ixgbe: reduce FDIR conf macro usage
>   net/ixgbe: use adapter in flow-related calls
>   net/ixgbe: support protocol-only TCP and UDP rules
>   net/ixgbe: write drop queue at init
>   net/ixgbe: rely less on global flow state
>   net/ixgbe: refactor flow creation
> 
Some good cleanups, thanks.

Series-Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>