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* [PATCH] doc: update IPv6 5-tuple matching limitation
@ 2025-08-07  9:17 Maayan Kashani
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From: Maayan Kashani @ 2025-08-07  9:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: dev
  Cc: mkashani, rasland, Bing Zhao, Dariusz Sosnowski,
	Viacheslav Ovsiienko, Ori Kam, Suanming Mou, Matan Azrad

Update IPv6 5-tuple matching limitation,
in newer HW, IPv6 5-tuple matching is
supported.

Signed-off-by: Maayan Kashani <mkashani@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Bing Zhao <bingz@nvidia.com>
---
 doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
index 86fe747c166..97a200443ec 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
@@ -1381,8 +1381,6 @@ Limitations
    - ``-EAGAIN`` for ``rte_eth_dev_start()``.
    - ``-EBUSY`` for ``rte_eth_dev_stop()``.
 
-#. Partial match with item template is not supported.
-
 #. The supported actions order is as below::
 
       MARK (a)
@@ -3324,7 +3322,13 @@ See :ref:`mlx5_firmware_config` for more details about the flex parser profile.
 Limitations
 ^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-#. IPv6 5-tuple matching is not supported with :ref:`HW steering <mlx5_hws>`.
+#. IPv6 5-tuple matching is supported with :ref:`HW steering <mlx5_hws>`
+   from ConnectX-8/BlueField-3.
+   Previous NICs support matching on either IPv6 src or dst in a rule.
+   In general, the matching limitation is related to the number of DWORDS:
+   older hardware supports up to 5 DWORDS for matching,
+   while newer hardware (ConnectX-8/BlueField-3 and up)
+   supports up to 11 DWORDS for matching.
 
 #. IPv6 multicast messages are not supported on VM,
    while promiscuous mode and allmulticast mode are both set to off.
-- 
2.21.0


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