[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: update LRO limitation for MLX5

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: update LRO limitation for MLX5

[Dekel Peled]

MLX5 PMD limitation regarding use of LRO is updated.

Signed-off-by: Dekel Peled <dekelp@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Matan Azrad <matan@mellanox.com>
---
 doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
index e13c07d..ff09e51 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
@@ -256,6 +256,9 @@ Limitations
     TCP header (122B).
   - Rx queue with LRO offload enabled, receiving a non-LRO packet, can forward
     it with size limited to max LRO size, not to max RX packet length.
+  - LRO can be used with outer header of TCP packets of the standard format:
+        eth (with or without vlan) / ipv4 or ipv6 / tcp / payload
+    Other TCP packets (e.g. with MPLS label) received on Rx queue with LRO enabled, will be received with bad checksum.
 
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1.8.3.1

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: update LRO limitation for MLX5

[Raslan Darawsheh]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dekel Peled <dekelp@mellanox.com>
> Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2020 1:49 PM
> To: Matan Azrad <matan@mellanox.com>; Slava Ovsiienko
> <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@mellanox.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: [PATCH] doc: update LRO limitation for MLX5
> 
> MLX5 PMD limitation regarding use of LRO is updated.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dekel Peled <dekelp@mellanox.com>
> Acked-by: Matan Azrad <matan@mellanox.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> index e13c07d..ff09e51 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> @@ -256,6 +256,9 @@ Limitations
>      TCP header (122B).
>    - Rx queue with LRO offload enabled, receiving a non-LRO packet, can
> forward
>      it with size limited to max LRO size, not to max RX packet length.
> +  - LRO can be used with outer header of TCP packets of the standard
> format:
> +        eth (with or without vlan) / ipv4 or ipv6 / tcp / payload
> +    Other TCP packets (e.g. with MPLS label) received on Rx queue with LRO
> enabled, will be received with bad checksum.
> 
>  Statistics
>  ----------
> --
> 1.8.3.1

Fixed warning when building the docs.
Patch applied to next-net-mlx,

Kindest regards,
Raslan Darawsheh