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From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
To: Andrii Staikov <andrii.staikov@intel.com>,
	 intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH iwl-next v2] ice: Add support for packet mirroring using hardware in switchdev mode
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2023 11:56:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0168a988486f4bff08bd186d5aea1cfe4900a2c3.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230912092952.2814966-1-andrii.staikov@intel.com>

Hi all,

On Tue, 2023-09-12 at 11:29 +0200, Andrii Staikov wrote:
> Switchdev mode allows to add mirroring rules to mirror
> incoming and outgoing packets to the interface's port
> representor. Previously, this was available only using
> software functionality. Add possibility to offload this
> functionality to the NIC hardware.
> 
> Introduce ICE_MIRROR_PACKET filter action to the
> ice_sw_fwd_act_type enum to identify the desired action
> and pass it to the hardware as well as the VSI to mirror.
> 
> Example of tc mirror command using hardware:
> tc filter add dev ens1f0np0 ingress protocol ip prio 1 flower
> src_mac b4:96:91:a5:c7:a7 skip_sw action mirred egress mirror dev eth1
> 
> ens1f0np0 - PF
> b4:96:91:a5:c7:a7 - source MAC address
> eth1 - PR of a VF to mirror to
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrii Staikov <andrii.staikov@intel.com>

The amount of patches that IMHO should land only into intel-specific
MLs and instead reaches also netdev, recently increased.

Please try harder to apply proper constraints to your traffic, netdev
is already busy enough!

Thanks,

Paolo

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-12  9:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-12  9:29 [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH iwl-next v2] ice: Add support for packet mirroring using hardware in switchdev mode Andrii Staikov
2023-09-12  9:56 ` Paolo Abeni [this message]
2023-09-12 14:41   ` Alexander Lobakin
2023-09-12 16:43     ` Paolo Abeni
2023-10-03  7:49 ` Buvaneswaran, Sujai

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