Re: [PATCH v11 00/13] flow filter using basic facilities of capability and resource objects

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Mar 03, 2025 at 01:34:28PM -0800, David Wei wrote:
> On 2025-03-03 11:59, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 03, 2025 at 11:10:12AM -0800, David Wei wrote:
> >> On 2024-06-04 06:28, Parav Pandit wrote:
> >>> Summary:
> >>> ========
> >>> This series improves virtio net receive packet steering to
> >>> direct packets to a specific RQ.
> >>>
> >>> This basic functionality will enable Linux ethtool steering,
> >>> and accelerated receive flow steering (ARFS) as a starting point,
> >>> and more use cases in future.
> >>>
> >>> It is using new virtio basic facilities of capability and
> >>> resource objects described later in this cover letter.
> >>>
> >>> Those interested only in the capability and resource object facilities
> >>> can jump in the cover leter to "Overview of capability and resource objects".
> >>>
> >>
> >> Hi folks, what is the state of this virtio spec update adding flow
> >> steering?
> >>
> >> I added io_uring zero copy receive which got merged recently. This
> >> feature requires hardware flow steering and RSS contexts to work. I'm
> >> targeting bnxt and mlx5 for real hardware support but would also like to
> >> add it to virtio. This will be useful for VMs as well as testing w/o
> >> needing real hardware.
> >>
> >> I checked https://github.com/oasis-tcs/virtio-spec but don't see the
> >> patches committed.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> David
> > 
> > Given no one objects, the thing to do is to ask for a vote.
> 
> Hi Michael, how does one do this? I'm unfamiliar with the
> virtio-comments@ list.

Instructions here:
https://github.com/oasis-tcs/virtio-spec?tab=readme-ov-file#use-of-github-issues