Hi, I am really curious about this issue as well. Any hint is appreciated.
Thanks! 2016-06-29 11:40 GMT+02:00 Paul Emmerich <emmericp at net.in.tum.de>: > Hi, > > we are trying to use flex filters to match on payload bytes and our code > stopped working with the new Filter API after upgrading to DPDK 2.2 or later > (currently using 16.04). > > We use these filters to match on the bytes 42 and 43 of the payload, the > filter worked with DPDK 2.0 with both XL710 and 82599 NICs with the old fdir > filter API. > > We then upgraded to DPDK 2.2 and later to DPDK 16.04 and migrated to the new > filter API. The filter still works on 82599 NICs but not on XL710 NICs. > > Any ideas what we might be doing wrong here? > > The initialization code can be found here: > https://github.com/emmericp/MoonGen/blob/master/src/device.c#L115-L157 > > Adding the filter is done here: > https://github.com/emmericp/MoonGen/blob/master/lua/include/filter.lua#L356-L385 > > rte_eth_dev_filter_ctrl() does not return an error and the same code works > for the 82599 NIC. Yet, the filter matches no packets on XL710 NICs. > > Is there a minimal example for the flex filters somewhere that could help me > track down this? > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks! > > > Paul
