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Message-ID: <0fa82602-3b4c-46a7-bdfc-e8a9535e74c1@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 09:32:26 +0200
From: Tariq Toukan <ttoukan.linux@...il.com>
To: Maxim Mikityanskiy <maxtram95@...il.com>,
 Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>, Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
 "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, Maxim Mikityanskiy <maxim@...valent.com>,
 Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net/mlx5e: Fix ethtool -N flow-type ip4 to RSS
 context



On 19/03/2025 14:45, Maxim Mikityanskiy wrote:
> There commands can be used to add an RSS context and steer some traffic
> into it:
> 
>      # ethtool -X eth0 context new
>      New RSS context is 1
>      # ethtool -N eth0 flow-type ip4 dst-ip 1.1.1.1 context 1
>      Added rule with ID 1023
> 
> However, the second command fails with EINVAL on mlx5e:
> 
>      # ethtool -N eth0 flow-type ip4 dst-ip 1.1.1.1 context 1
>      rmgr: Cannot insert RX class rule: Invalid argument
>      Cannot insert classification rule
> 
> It happens when flow_get_tirn calls flow_type_to_traffic_type with
> flow_type = IP_USER_FLOW or IPV6_USER_FLOW. That function only handles
> IPV4_FLOW and IPV6_FLOW cases, but unlike all other cases which are
> common for hash and spec, IPv4 and IPv6 defines different contants for
> hash and for spec:
> 
>      #define	TCP_V4_FLOW	0x01	/* hash or spec (tcp_ip4_spec) */
>      #define	UDP_V4_FLOW	0x02	/* hash or spec (udp_ip4_spec) */
>      ...
>      #define	IPV4_USER_FLOW	0x0d	/* spec only (usr_ip4_spec) */
>      #define	IP_USER_FLOW	IPV4_USER_FLOW
>      #define	IPV6_USER_FLOW	0x0e	/* spec only (usr_ip6_spec; nfc only) */
>      #define	IPV4_FLOW	0x10	/* hash only */
>      #define	IPV6_FLOW	0x11	/* hash only */
> 
> Extend the switch in flow_type_to_traffic_type to support both, which
> fixes the failing ethtool -N command with flow-type ip4 or ip6.
> 

Hi Maxim,
Thanks for your patch!

> Fixes: 248d3b4c9a39 ("net/mlx5e: Support flow classification into RSS contexts")

Seems that the issue originates in commit 756c41603a18 ("net/mlx5e: 
ethtool, Support user configuration for RX hash fields"), when directly 
classifying into an RQ, before the multi RSS context support.

> Signed-off-by: Maxim Mikityanskiy <maxim@...valent.com>
> ---
>   drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_fs_ethtool.c | 2 ++
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_fs_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_fs_ethtool.c
> index 773624bb2c5d..d68230a7b9f4 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_fs_ethtool.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_fs_ethtool.c
> @@ -884,8 +884,10 @@ static int flow_type_to_traffic_type(u32 flow_type)
>   	case ESP_V6_FLOW:
>   		return MLX5_TT_IPV6_IPSEC_ESP;
>   	case IPV4_FLOW:
> +	case IP_USER_FLOW:
>   		return MLX5_TT_IPV4;
>   	case IPV6_FLOW:
> +	case IPV6_USER_FLOW:
>   		return MLX5_TT_IPV6;
>   	default:
>   		return -EINVAL;


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