From: Dekel Peled <dekelp@mellanox.com>
To: yskoh@mellanox.com, shahafs@mellanox.com
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, orika@mellanox.com
Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: document IPv6 multicast limitation on VM
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 13:31:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1542022266-16518-1-git-send-email-dekelp@mellanox.com> (raw)
This patch adds limitation notice for MLX5 PMD.
IPv6 multicast messages are not received on VM when promiscuous
and allmulticast modes are off, due to netlink restriction.
Signed-off-by: Dekel Peled <dekelp@mellanox.com>
---
doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
index 6ab7d8e..3610e00 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
@@ -137,6 +137,11 @@ Limitations
enabled (``rxq_cqe_comp_en``) at the same time, RSS hash result is not fully
supported. Some Rx packets may not have PKT_RX_RSS_HASH.
+- IPv6 Multicast messages are not supported on VM, while promiscuous mode
+ and allmulticast mode are both set to off.
+ To receive IPv6 Multicast messages on VM, explicitly set the relevant
+ MAC address using rte_eth_dev_mac_addr_add() API.
+
Statistics
----------
--
1.8.3.1
next reply other threads:[~2018-11-12 11:32 UTC|newest]
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2018-11-12 11:31 Dekel Peled [this message]
2018-11-13 6:38 ` Shahaf Shuler
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