[PATCH v1] doc/mlx5: update IPv6 routing extension matching limitation

[PATCH v1] doc/mlx5: update IPv6 routing extension matching limitation

[Rongwei Liu]

Due to hardware limitations, the relaxed mode is not supported,
otherwise, packets may mismatch.

Signed-off-by: Rongwei Liu <rongweil@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Suanming Mou <suanmingm@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
---
 doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
index 45379960f0..857c2493bb 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
@@ -244,6 +244,8 @@ Limitations
 
   - Matching on ICMP6 following IPv6 routing extension header,
     should match ``ipv6_routing_ext_next_hdr`` instead of ICMP6.
+    IPv6 routing extension matching is not supported in flow template relaxed
+    matching mode (see ``struct rte_flow_pattern_template_attr::relaxed_matching``).
 
 - When using Verbs flow engine (``dv_flow_en`` = 0), flow pattern without any
   specific VLAN will match for VLAN packets as well:
-- 
2.27.0

RE: [PATCH v1] doc/mlx5: update IPv6 routing extension matching limitation

[Raslan Darawsheh]

Hi,


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rongwei Liu <rongweil@nvidia.com>
> Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2023 4:15 AM
> To: dev@dpdk.org; Matan Azrad <matan@nvidia.com>; Slava Ovsiienko
> <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>; Ori Kam <orika@nvidia.com>; Suanming Mou
> <suanmingm@nvidia.com>; NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon (EXTERNAL)
> <thomas@monjalon.net>
> Subject: [PATCH v1] doc/mlx5: update IPv6 routing extension matching
> limitation
> 
> Due to hardware limitations, the relaxed mode is not supported, otherwise,
> packets may mismatch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rongwei Liu <rongweil@nvidia.com>
> Acked-by: Suanming Mou <suanmingm@nvidia.com>
> Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>

Patch applied to next-net-mlx,

Kindest regards
Raslan Darawsheh