Expose rte_eth_dev_set_mc_addr_list
function into capsule runtime to filter specific MC addresses
#150
Labels
enhancement
New feature or request
What's desired
We have an application which proxies certain IPV4 multicast inputs to IPV6 DEPI (Downstream External PHY Interface) using DPDK via capsule. For performance reasons, we would like to filter the specific set of multicast addresses we're interested, ideally by DPDK rather than in our application code, for performance reasons. We're using multicast = true which, as you know, means all multicast traffic. DPDK provides the function,
rte_eth_dev_set_mc_addr_list
, which is implemented by the driver we're using. This is publically available in thecapsule-ffi
; however, it takes au16
port_id
and that is not accessible from the capsule lib (PortId iscapsule/core/ffi
crate private and in addition, that struct'su16
member is private to the core/ffi module.that would like to filter specific sets of multicast addresses).Work around / alternatives
We can query for the port id using the rte function to get it from the port name, which we are doing, but an public abstraction in capsule for the mc filter would be great if it makes sense.
Appreciate all that you do. Let me know if you need more information!
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