The ixgbe driver's rte_flow implementation has always endeavored to keep flows across device restart, however it never advertised this capability. Advertise it explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <[email protected]> Acked-by: Vladimir Medvedkin <[email protected]> --- doc/guides/rel_notes/release_26_11.rst | 7 +++++-- drivers/net/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_26_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_26_11.rst index b23eb389f7d..f4d88938bc3 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_26_11.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_26_11.rst @@ -103,8 +103,11 @@ New Features * **Updated Intel ixgbe driver.** - Added ``fdir_buffer_size`` devarg to select the Flow Director table size - (``64k``, ``128k`` or ``256k``) at probe time. The default remains ``64k``. + * Added ``fdir_buffer_size`` devarg to select the Flow Director table size + (``64k``, ``128k`` or ``256k``) at probe time. The default remains ``64k``. + + * Advertised ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CAPA_FLOW_RULE_KEEP`` capability, + as flow rules were already kept across device restart. * **Updated NXP DPAA2 ethernet driver.** diff --git a/drivers/net/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c index d5a9b295e94..c7b20a9205a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c +++ b/drivers/net/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c @@ -3916,6 +3916,9 @@ ixgbe_dev_info_get(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, struct rte_eth_dev_info *dev_info) dev_info->reta_size = ixgbe_reta_size_get(hw->mac.type); dev_info->flow_type_rss_offloads = IXGBE_RSS_OFFLOAD_ALL; + /* rte_flow rules are kept across dev_stop/dev_start and replayed on start */ + dev_info->dev_capa |= RTE_ETH_DEV_CAPA_FLOW_RULE_KEEP; + dev_info->speed_capa = RTE_ETH_LINK_SPEED_1G | RTE_ETH_LINK_SPEED_10G; if (hw->device_id == IXGBE_DEV_ID_X550EM_A_1G_T || hw->device_id == IXGBE_DEV_ID_X550EM_A_1G_T_L) -- 2.52.0
