Hi John et al:

I am using the X540, and setting it up to receive UDP traffic.
Want to use the flow-director filter, to steer packets to different receive queues.

Using the testpmd app, I am running into the following error --

testpmd> flow_director_filter 0 del flow ipv4-udp src 192.168.10.100 dst 192.168.10.101 vlan 0x1 flexbytes (0x88,0x48) fwd queue 1 fd_id 1
flow director programming error: (Operation not supported)

testpmd> flush_flow_director 0
PMD: ixgbe_reinit_fdir_tables_82599(): ixgbe_reinit_fdir_tables_82599
PMD: ixgbe_reinit_fdir_tables_82599(): Flow Director Signature poll time exceeded!
PMD: ixgbe_fdir_flush(): Failed to re-initialize FD table.
flow director table flushing error: (Too many open files in system)


Any ideas what am I missing…
And also, why is there is a reference to 82599 function here‼


Thanks
-Navneet


-----Original Message-----
From: De Lara Guarch, Pablo [mailto:pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2015 12:28 AM
To: Navneet Rao; Wu, Jingjing; Mcnamara, John; dev@dpdk.org
Subject: RE: [dpdk-dev] flow_director_filter error!!

Hi Navneet,

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From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Navneet Rao
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2015 9:27 PM
To: Wu, Jingjing; Mcnamara, John;  HYPERLINK "mailto:dev@dpdk.org" dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] flow_director_filter error!!

Hi Jingjing:

Thanks.

I did have the ethertype_filter ignore the mac_addr, and look at only 
ethertype filtyer and it still  got a "bad arguments" message :-(

testpmd>  ethertype_filter 0 add mac_ignr ethertype 0x0806 fwd queue 1
Bad arguments

Yes, apparently the example is wrong. It misses the MAC address, after mac_ignr.
So it should be:

ethertype_filter 0 add mac_ignr 00:11:22:33:44:55 ethertype 0x0806 fwd queue 1

Regards,
Pablo

-----Original Message-----
From: Wu, Jingjing [mailto:jingjing.wu@intel.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2015 6:55 AM
To: Navneet Rao; Mcnamara, John;  HYPERLINK "mailto:dev@dpdk.org" dev@dpdk.org
Subject: RE: [dpdk-dev] flow_director_filter error!!

Hi, Navneet

I'm sorry for I have no idea about the NIC i540. Are you talking about X540?
If X540, I guess you can't classify on the MAC-ADDRESS to different 
queue by ethertype filter. Because in the X540 datasheet the ethertype 
filter is described as below:
" 7.1.2.3 L2 Ethertype Filters
These filters identify packets by their L2 Ethertype, 802.1Q user 
priority and optionally assign them to a receive queue."

So the mac_address is not the filter's input.

Thanks
Jingjing

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From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Navneet Rao
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2015 2:57 AM
To: Mcnamara, John;  HYPERLINK "mailto:dev@dpdk.org" dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] flow_director_filter error!!

Thanks John.

I am trying to setup/use the flow-director-filter on the i540.

-- When I try to setup the flow-director-filter as per the example, 
I am getting "bad arguments"!!!
     So decided to see if the flush command would work.


In the interim --- I am using ethertype filter to accomplish the following.
What I am trying to do is this --
Use 2 different i540 cards
Use the igb_uio driver.
Use the testpmd app.
Setup 5 different MAC-ADDRESSes on each port. (using the set 
mac_addr
command) Setup 5 different RxQs and TxQs on each port.
And then use the testpmd app to generate traffic..

I am assuming that the testpmd app will now send and receive traffic 
using the 5 different MAC_ADDRESSes..
On each port's receive I will now want to classify on the 
MAC-ADDRESS and steer the traffic to different queues.

Is there an example/reference on how to achieve this?

Next, I would want to do "classify" on "flexbytes" and send/steer 
the traffic to different queues using flow-director-filter.

Thanks
-Navneet




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From: Mcnamara, John [mailto:john.mcnamara@intel.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 3:39 PM
To: Navneet Rao;  HYPERLINK "mailto:dev@dpdk.org" dev@dpdk.org
Subject: RE: [dpdk-dev] flow_director_filter error!!

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Subject: [dpdk-dev] flow_director_filter error!!

After I start the testpmd app, I am flusing the 
flow_director_filter settings and get the following error -



testpmd> flush_flow_director 0

PMD: ixgbe_fdir_flush(): Failed to re-initialize FD table.

flow director table flushing error: (Too many open files in 
system)

Hi,

Are you setting a flow director filter before flushing? If so, could 
you give

an example.

quoted

John.
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