24/11/2020 15:42, Ajit Khaparde: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 11:15 PM Gregory Etelson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > According to current RTE API, port flow rules must not be kept > > after port stop. > > > > Testpmd did not flush port flow rules after `port stop' command was > > called. As the result, after the port was restarted, it showed bogus > > flow rules. > > > > Fixes: ce8d561418d4 ("app/testpmd: add port configuration settings") > > > > Cc: [email protected] > > > > Signed-off-by: Gregory Etelson <[email protected]> > > Acked-by: Ori Kam <[email protected]> > > Acked-by: Ajit Khaparde <[email protected]>
The rte_flow doc is now updated to make clear that flow rules are not kept after port stop. This testpmd patch should make clear that the need of flushing is only for testpmd objects. The change is postponed to DPDK 21.02.
