flow-bifurcation fails to work in i40e driver when used with Intel X710 NIC cards with RHEL7.3

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • flow-bifurcation of UDP packets fails to work in i40e driver shipped with RHEL7.3 release kernel when used with Intel X710 NIC cards.
  • Why do we continue seeing network traffic on physical port with flow-bifurcation set using ethtool for the UDP traffic to be sent over the virtual function?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3.
  • 3.10.0-514 kernel release version.
  • Intel i40e v1.5.10-k version
  • Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GbE SFP+

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