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From: Ophir Munk <ophirmu@mellanox.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org, Pascal Mazon <pascal.mazon@6wind.com>
Cc: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
	Olga Shern <olgas@mellanox.com>,
	Ophir Munk <ophirmu@mellanox.com>
Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] doc: update tap with systems supported flows
Date: Thu,  8 Feb 2018 14:54:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1518101654-16477-1-git-send-email-ophirmu@mellanox.com> (raw)

Signed-off-by: Ophir Munk <ophirmu@mellanox.com>
---
 doc/guides/nics/tap.rst | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/tap.rst b/doc/guides/nics/tap.rst
index b69ee67..ea61be3 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/tap.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/tap.rst
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ Supported actions:
 - DROP
 - QUEUE
 - PASSTHRU
-- RSS
+- RSS (requires kernel 4.9)
 
 It is generally not possible to provide a "last" item. However, if the "last"
 item, once masked, is identical to the masked spec, then it is supported.
@@ -241,3 +241,23 @@ Please refer to ``iproute2`` package file ``lib/bpf.c`` function
 An example utility for eBPF instruction generation in the format of C arrays will
 be added in next releases
 
+Systems supporting flow API
+---------------------------
+
+- "tc flower" classifier requires linux kernel above 4.2
+- eBPF/RSS requires linux kernel above 4.9
+
++--------------------+-----------------------+
+| RH7.3              | No flow rule support  |
++--------------------+-----------------------+
+| RH7.4              | No RSS action support |
++--------------------+-----------------------+
+| RH7.5              | No RSS action support |
++--------------------+-----------------------+
+| SLES 15,           | No limitation         |
+| kernel 4.12        |                       |
++--------------------+-----------------------+
+| Azure Ubuntu 16.04,| No limitation         |
+| kernel 4.13        |                       |
++--------------------+-----------------------+
+
-- 
2.7.4

             reply	other threads:[~2018-02-08 14:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-08 14:54 Ophir Munk [this message]
2018-02-08 15:07 ` Pascal Mazon
2018-02-08 17:59   ` Mcnamara, John
2018-02-08 18:07   ` Ferruh Yigit

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