From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dpdk.org (dpdk.org [92.243.14.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1FA9A04B5; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 19:21:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10EA61DB2E; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 19:19:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mellanox.co.il (mail-il-dmz.mellanox.com [193.47.165.129]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77E4F1DA9C for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 19:19:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: from Internal Mail-Server by MTLPINE1 (envelope-from jiaweiw@nvidia.com) with SMTP; 22 Sep 2020 20:19:19 +0300 Received: from nvidia.com (gen-l-vrt-280.mtl.labs.mlnx [10.237.45.1]) by labmailer.mlnx (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id 08MHJIGr007359; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 20:19:19 +0300 From: Jiawei Wang To: orika@nvidia.com, viacheslavo@nvidia.com, matan@nvidia.com, thomas@monjalon.net, ferruh.yigit@intel.com, marko.kovacevic@intel.com, arybchenko@solarflare.com Cc: dev@dpdk.org, rasland@nvidia.com, ian.stokes@intel.com, fbl@redhat.com, asafp@nvidia.com Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 20:19:18 +0300 Message-Id: <1600795158-67060-13-git-send-email-jiaweiw@nvidia.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.3.1 In-Reply-To: <1600795158-67060-1-git-send-email-jiaweiw@nvidia.com> References: <1599634114-148013-1-git-send-email-jiaweiw@nvidia.com> <1600795158-67060-1-git-send-email-jiaweiw@nvidia.com> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 12/12] doc: add E-Switch sample flow limitation description X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Add description about the E-Switch sample flow limitation. Due to Metadata register c0 is deleted while doing the loopback, so that only support forward the sampling packet into e-switch manager port, no additional action support in sample flow. Signed-off-by: Jiawei Wang Acked-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko --- 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 211c0c5..d712c29 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst @@ -311,6 +311,11 @@ Limitations for some NICs (such as ConnectX-6 Dx and BlueField 2). The capability bit ``scatter_fcs_w_decap_disable`` shows NIC support. +- E-Switch Sample flow: + + - The E-Switch Sample flow must have the eswitch_manager VPORT destination (PF or ECPF) and no additional actions. + - For ConnectX-5, the ``RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_SAMPLE`` is typically used as first action in the E-Switch egress flow if with header modify or encapsulation actions. + Statistics ---------- -- 1.8.3.1