netdev - Re: how to set vlan filter for intel 82599

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Date:	Tue, 26 Apr 2011 04:51:08 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	zhou rui <zhourui.cn@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how to set vlan filter for intel 82599

On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 11:39 +0800, zhou rui wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Ben Hutchings
> <bhutchings@...arflare.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 10:19 +0800, zhou rui wrote:
> >> hi
> >> here is the problem troubles me,how to set vlan filter for intel
> >> 82599? for example
> >> I want vlan id 0~31 will go to queue 0, vlan id 32-63 will go to queue
> >> 1...below is my setting,but doesn't work
> >>
> >> don't know the exact meanning of the vlan-mask and vlan,how are they calculated?
> >>
> >> ./ethtool -K eth5 ntuple on
> >>
> >> ./ethtool -U eth5 flow-type udp4 src-ip 0x0 src-ip-mask 0x0 dst-ip 0x0
> >> dst-ip-mask 0x0 src-port 0x0 src-port-mask 0x0 dst-port 0x0
> >> dst-port-mask 0x0 vlan 0x0000 vlan-mask 0x00E0 user-def 0x0
> >> user-def-mask 0x0 action 0
> > [...]
> >
> > This specifies a filter for UDP/IPv4 packets, and the masks are wrong.
> > If you actually wanted to filter only UDP/IPv4 packets for VID 0-31 then
> > the correct syntax would be:
> >
> >    ethtool -U eth5 flow-type udp4 vlan 0 vlan-mask 0xf01f
> >
> > If you don't care about the layer 3/4 protocols then you would need to
> > use 'flow-type ether', but no driver implements that yet.  (Well, sfc
> > implements the *type*, but not filtering by VID only.)
[...]
> hi ben,thanks for your help,would you mind tell me "32~63" VID filter?
> still can not understand the vlan-mask

The vlan-mask specifies tag bits to be ignored.  You want to ignore the
priority, CFI and lower 5 bits of the VID, hence 0xf01f.  For a
different group of 32 VIDs you would only change the vlan argument, not
the vlan-mask argument.

Ben.

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