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

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

On Wed, May 06, 2026 at 10:27:32AM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> 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>

Series applied to dpdk-next-net-intel.

Thanks,
/Bruce