Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH iwl-next v7 2/2] ice: Implement 'flow-type ether' rules

[Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>]

On 2/12/2024 3:03 AM, Lukasz Plachno wrote:
> From: Jakub Buchocki <jakubx.buchocki@intel.com>
> 
> Add support for 'flow-type ether' Flow Director rules via ethtool.
> 
> Create packet segment info for filter configuration based on ethtool
> command parameters. Reuse infrastructure already created for
> ipv4 and ipv6 flows to convert packet segment into
> extraction sequence, which is later used to program the filter
> inside Flow Director block of the Rx pipeline.
> 
> Rules not containing masks are processed by the Flow Director,
> and support the following set of input parameters in all combinations:
> src, dst, proto, vlan-etype, vlan, action.
> 
> It is possible to specify address mask in ethtool parameters but only
> 00:00:00:00:00 and FF:FF:FF:FF:FF are valid.
> The same applies to proto, vlan-etype and vlan masks:
> only 0x0000 and 0xffff masks are valid.
> 
> Testing:
>   (DUT) iperf3 -s
>   (DUT) ethtool -U ens785f0np0 flow-type ether dst <ens785f0np0 mac> \
>         action 10
>   (DUT) watch 'ethtool -S ens785f0np0 | grep rx_queue'
>   (LP)  iperf3 -c ${DUT_IP}
> 
>   Counters increase only for:
>     'rx_queue_10_packets'
>     'rx_queue_10_bytes'
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Buchocki <jakubx.buchocki@intel.com>
> Co-developed-by: Mateusz Pacuszka <mateuszx.pacuszka@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mateusz Pacuszka <mateuszx.pacuszka@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Lukasz Plachno <lukasz.plachno@intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>