Hi Georgios, You are trying to create the same rule with three different actions. I would suggest that you change your mask to be proto is 1/6/17 This way you'll have three different rules
Kindest regards, Raslan Darawsheh > -----Original Message----- > From: users <users-boun...@dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Georgios Katsikas > Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2018 3:01 PM > To: users@dpdk.org > Subject: [dpdk-users] Problem installing rules with counters on MLX5 > > Dear all, > > I am trying to install 3 simple rules (to match ICMP, TCP, and UDP flows) on a > Mellanox ConnectX-5 100 GbE NIC using DPDK's flow API. > The rules are as follows: > > 1. flow create 0 ingress pattern eth type is 2048 / ipv4 proto spec 1 > proto mask 0x0 / end actions queue index 0 / count / end > 2. flow create 0 ingress pattern eth type is 2048 / ipv4 proto spec 6 > proto mask 0x0 / end actions queue index 0 / count / end > 3. flow create 0 ingress pattern eth type is 2048 / ipv4 proto spec 17 > proto mask 0x0 / end actions queue index 0 / count / end > > Only the first rule gets properly installed. The remaining 2 rules throw the > following error: > Caught error type 1 (cause unspecified): hardware refuses to create flow > > If I try to incorporate 'count identifier <index> shared 0', I still get > error (with > or without shared). > If I try to install the same rules without action count, then everything works > as expected. > Action count on rules that match src/dst IP addresses works fine. > Could you please shed some light on this? > > I am using DPDK 18.08 with Mellanox OFED 4.4-2.0.7.0 (latest). > > Thanks, > Georgios
