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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] doc: update RSS action with best effort
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On 8/10/2020 4:08 PM, Ori Kam wrote:
> Using the rte_flow action RSS types field,
> may result in undefined outcome.
> 
> For example selecting both UDP and TCP,
> selecting TCP RSS type but the pattern is targeting UDP traffic.
> another option is that the PMD doesn't support all requested types.
> 
> Until now, it wasn't clear what will happen in such cases.
> This commit clarify this issue by stating that the PMD
> will work in the best-effort mode, and will fail
> in case the requested type is not supported.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ori Kam <orika@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>

Applied to dpdk-next-net/main, thanks.