From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <dev-bounces@dpdk.org> Received: from dpdk.org (dpdk.org [92.243.14.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E048A059B; Fri, 10 Apr 2020 11:36:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84E061D426; Fri, 10 Apr 2020 11:36:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: from git-send-mailer.rdmz.labs.mlnx (unknown [37.142.13.130]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96B2C1D412 for <dev@dpdk.org>; Fri, 10 Apr 2020 11:36:28 +0200 (CEST) From: Bing Zhao <bingz@mellanox.com> To: john.mcnamara@intel.com, marko.kovacevic@intel.com, viacheslavo@mellanox.com, matan@mellanox.com Cc: shahafs@mellanox.com, rasland@mellanox.com, orika@mellanox.com, dev@dpdk.org, thomas@monjalon.net Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 17:36:14 +0800 Message-Id: <1586511374-331792-1-git-send-email-bingz@mellanox.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.5.5 Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: update flow non-cached mode notes X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions <dev.dpdk.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://mails.dpdk.org/options/dev>, <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/> List-Post: <mailto:dev@dpdk.org> List-Help: <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://mails.dpdk.org/listinfo/dev>, <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=subscribe> Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" <dev-bounces@dpdk.org> This patch updates the MLX5 PMD and release notes documentations. Adding the notes of the behavior change that rte flows organization is switched into non-cached mode for applications. Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bingz@mellanox.com> --- doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 10 ++++++++++ doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_05.rst | 1 + 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst index e13c07d..63138c4 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst @@ -1287,6 +1287,16 @@ set, and we should allow to specify zero values as rte_flow parameters for the META and MARK items and actions. In the same time zero mask has no meaning and should be rejected on validation stage. +Notes for rte_flow +------------------ +Implementation of flows organization is in non-cached mode. When stopping a +device, all the flows inserted from application will be considered invalid and +flushed automatically in the background. After restarting of the device, no +application's flow exists in the system. + +The application should re-insert the flows as required after device restarting, +and must not try to destroy or flush the invalid flows before stopping. + Notes for testpmd ----------------- diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_05.rst index 2596269..3c55445 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_05.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_05.rst @@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ New Features * Added support for matching on IPv4 Time To Live and IPv6 Hop Limit. * Added support for creating Relaxed Ordering Memory Regions. + * Flows organization changed from cached mode to non-cached mode. * **Updated the Intel ice driver.** -- 2.5.5