net/mlx5e: Add new prio for promiscuous mode

An optimization for promiscuous mode adds a high-priority steering
table with a single catch-all rule to steer all traffic directly to
the TTC table.

However, a gap exists between the creation of this table and the
insertion of the catch-all rule. Packets arriving in this brief window
would miss as no rule was inserted yet, unnecessarily incrementing the
'rx_steer_missed_packets' counter and dropped.

This patch resolves the issue by introducing a new prio for this
table, placing it between MLX5E_TC_PRIO and MLX5E_NIC_PRIO. By doing
so, packets arriving during the window now fall through to the next
prio (at MLX5E_NIC_PRIO) instead of being dropped.

Fixes: 1c46d7409f ("net/mlx5e: Optimize promiscuous mode")
Signed-off-by: Jianbo Liu <jianbol@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/1752155624-24095-4-git-send-email-tariqt@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
This commit is contained in:
Jianbo Liu 2025-07-10 16:53:44 +03:00 committed by Jakub Kicinski
parent eb41a264a3
commit 4c9fce56fa
3 changed files with 17 additions and 7 deletions

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@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ enum {
enum {
MLX5E_TC_PRIO = 0,
MLX5E_NIC_PRIO
MLX5E_PROMISC_PRIO,
MLX5E_NIC_PRIO,
};
struct mlx5e_flow_table {
@ -68,9 +69,13 @@ struct mlx5e_l2_table {
MLX5_HASH_FIELD_SEL_DST_IP |\
MLX5_HASH_FIELD_SEL_IPSEC_SPI)
/* NIC prio FTS */
/* NIC promisc FT level */
enum {
MLX5E_PROMISC_FT_LEVEL,
};
/* NIC prio FTS */
enum {
MLX5E_VLAN_FT_LEVEL,
MLX5E_L2_FT_LEVEL,
MLX5E_TTC_FT_LEVEL,

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@ -780,7 +780,7 @@ static int mlx5e_create_promisc_table(struct mlx5e_flow_steering *fs)
ft_attr.max_fte = MLX5E_PROMISC_TABLE_SIZE;
ft_attr.autogroup.max_num_groups = 1;
ft_attr.level = MLX5E_PROMISC_FT_LEVEL;
ft_attr.prio = MLX5E_NIC_PRIO;
ft_attr.prio = MLX5E_PROMISC_PRIO;
ft->t = mlx5_create_auto_grouped_flow_table(fs->ns, &ft_attr);
if (IS_ERR(ft->t)) {

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@ -113,13 +113,16 @@
#define ETHTOOL_PRIO_NUM_LEVELS 1
#define ETHTOOL_NUM_PRIOS 11
#define ETHTOOL_MIN_LEVEL (KERNEL_MIN_LEVEL + ETHTOOL_NUM_PRIOS)
/* Promiscuous, Vlan, mac, ttc, inner ttc, {UDP/ANY/aRFS/accel/{esp, esp_err}}, IPsec policy,
/* Vlan, mac, ttc, inner ttc, {UDP/ANY/aRFS/accel/{esp, esp_err}}, IPsec policy,
* {IPsec RoCE MPV,Alias table},IPsec RoCE policy
*/
#define KERNEL_NIC_PRIO_NUM_LEVELS 11
#define KERNEL_NIC_PRIO_NUM_LEVELS 10
#define KERNEL_NIC_NUM_PRIOS 1
/* One more level for tc */
#define KERNEL_MIN_LEVEL (KERNEL_NIC_PRIO_NUM_LEVELS + 1)
/* One more level for tc, and one more for promisc */
#define KERNEL_MIN_LEVEL (KERNEL_NIC_PRIO_NUM_LEVELS + 2)
#define KERNEL_NIC_PROMISC_NUM_PRIOS 1
#define KERNEL_NIC_PROMISC_NUM_LEVELS 1
#define KERNEL_NIC_TC_NUM_PRIOS 1
#define KERNEL_NIC_TC_NUM_LEVELS 3
@ -187,6 +190,8 @@ static struct init_tree_node {
ADD_NS(MLX5_FLOW_TABLE_MISS_ACTION_DEF,
ADD_MULTIPLE_PRIO(KERNEL_NIC_TC_NUM_PRIOS,
KERNEL_NIC_TC_NUM_LEVELS),
ADD_MULTIPLE_PRIO(KERNEL_NIC_PROMISC_NUM_PRIOS,
KERNEL_NIC_PROMISC_NUM_LEVELS),
ADD_MULTIPLE_PRIO(KERNEL_NIC_NUM_PRIOS,
KERNEL_NIC_PRIO_NUM_LEVELS))),
ADD_PRIO(0, BY_PASS_MIN_LEVEL, 0, FS_CHAINING_CAPS,