Re: how to set vlan filter for intel 82599

[zhou rui <zhourui.cn@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday, April 26, 2011, Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> wrote:
> On 4/26/2011 6:31 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 12:39 +0800, zhou rui wrote:
> [...]
>
> i set the filter like below:
>
> for a vlanid=50, it always match the last rule (action 7)
>
> ./ethtool -K eth5 ntuple off
> ./ethtool -K eth5 ntuple on
> ./ethtool -U eth5 flow-type tcp4 vlan 32 vlan-mask 0xF01F action 1
> ./ethtool -U eth5 flow-type udp4 vlan 32 vlan-mask 0xF01F action 1
> ./ethtool -U eth5 flow-type udp4 vlan 64 vlan-mask 0xF01F action 7
> ./ethtool -U eth5 flow-type tcp4 vlan 64 vlan-mask 0xF01F action 7
>
> I tried the latest ixgbe driver 3.3.9, it reports:
>
> Cannot add new RX n-tuple filter: Operation not permitted
>
> ./ethtool -V
> ethtool version 2.6.36
>
>
> Check dmesg; there should be an error message there.  Of course the
> error code should be EINVAL and not EPERM.
>
> Ben.
>
>
>
> The problem is likely the vlan-mask.  The only valid VLAN masks supported are 0xFFFF, 0x0FFF, 0xF000, and 0x0000.  The hardware cannot partially mask either the priority nor the VLAN TCI.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alex
>
Yes i just checked the log, it said partially vlan Id not support,
that means I can't set this filter?(vlan id 0-31 go to
Q0,32-63->Q1....?)