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From: Beilei Xing <beilei.xing@intel.com>
To: john.mcnamara@intel.com
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Beilei Xing <beilei.xing@intel.com>
Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] examples/l3fwd: update documentation
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 17:04:55 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1466672695-27041-1-git-send-email-beilei.xing@intel.com> (raw)

Update l3fwd documentation with -E, -L and --eth-dest options.

Signed-off-by: Beilei Xing <beilei.xing@intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/sample_app_ug/l3_forward.rst | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/l3_forward.rst b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/l3_forward.rst
index 491f99d..4ab5149 100644
--- a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/l3_forward.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/l3_forward.rst
@@ -101,8 +101,14 @@ where,
 *   -P: optional, sets all ports to promiscuous mode so that packets are accepted regardless of the packet's Ethernet MAC destination address.
     Without this option, only packets with the Ethernet MAC destination address set to the Ethernet address of the port are accepted.
 
+*   -E: enable exact match
+
+*   -L: enable longest prefix match
+
 *   --config (port,queue,lcore)[,(port,queue,lcore)]: determines which queues from which ports are mapped to which cores
 
+*   --eth-dest=X,MM:MM:MM:MM:MM:MM: optional, ethernet destination for port X
+
 *   --enable-jumbo: optional, enables jumbo frames
 
 *   --max-pkt-len: optional, maximum packet length in decimal (64-9600)
@@ -113,7 +119,7 @@ where,
 
 *   --ipv6: optional, set it if running ipv6 packets
 
-*   --parse-ptype: optional, set it if use software way to analyze packet type
+*   --parse-ptype: optional, set it if use software way to analyze packet type. Without this option, HW will check packet type.
 
 For example, consider a dual processor socket platform where cores 0-7 and 16-23 appear on socket 0, while cores 8-15 and 24-31 appear on socket 1.
 Let's say that the programmer wants to use memory from both NUMA nodes, the platform has only two ports, one connected to each NUMA node,
-- 
2.5.0

             reply	other threads:[~2016-06-23  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-23  9:04 Beilei Xing [this message]
2016-06-24 15:47 ` Mcnamara, John
2016-06-27 14:26 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] examples/l3fwd: update usage and documentation Beilei Xing
2016-06-27 15:47   ` Mcnamara, John
2016-07-11 14:37     ` Thomas Monjalon

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