Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/3] doc: add single flow dump to guides

[Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>]

On 4/14/2021 7:13 AM, Haifei Luo wrote:
> Add "Flow dump" in features/default.ini and features/mlx5.ini.
> Add testpmd CLI and API changes in release_notes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Haifei Luo <haifeil@nvidia.com>
> ---
>   doc/guides/nics/features/default.ini   | 1 +
>   doc/guides/nics/features/mlx5.ini      | 1 +
>   doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst | 5 +++++
>   3 files changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/features/default.ini b/doc/guides/nics/features/default.ini
> index 8046bd1..49aaf17 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/nics/features/default.ini
> +++ b/doc/guides/nics/features/default.ini
> @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ DCB                  =
>   VLAN filter          =
>   Flow control         =
>   Flow API             =
> +Flow dump            =

Hi Haifei,

I don't think "flow dump" is important enough to be listed in the feature list, 
I am for not adding it.
Comparing the one line above item, "Flow API", this one is small and indeed 
subset of it.

>   Rate limitation      =
>   Traffic mirroring    =
>   Inline crypto        =
> diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/features/mlx5.ini b/doc/guides/nics/features/mlx5.ini
> index ddd131d..3c5fcff 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/nics/features/mlx5.ini
> +++ b/doc/guides/nics/features/mlx5.ini
> @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ SR-IOV               = Y
>   VLAN filter          = Y
>   Flow control         = Y
>   Flow API             = Y
> +Flow dump            = Y
>   CRC offload          = Y
>   VLAN offload         = Y
>   L3 checksum offload  = Y
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst
> index a0b9079..e3ae470 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst
> @@ -174,6 +174,8 @@ New Features
>       ``dpdk-testpmd -- --eth-link-speed N``
>     * Added command to display Rx queue used descriptor count.
>       ``show port (port_id) rxq (queue_id) desc used count``
> +  * Added command to dump internal representation information of single flow.
> +    ``flow dump (port_id) rule (rule_id)``
>   
>   
>   Removed Items
> @@ -207,6 +209,9 @@ API Changes
>      Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
>      =======================================================
>   
> +* ethdev: Added a rte_flow pointer parameter to the function
> +  ``rte_flow_dev_dump()`` allowing dump for single flow.
> +
>   * eal: The experimental TLS API added in ``rte_thread.h`` has been renamed
>     from ``rte_thread_tls_*`` to ``rte_thread_*`` to avoid naming redundancy
>     and confusion with the transport layer security term.
> 

Can you please distribute the release notes updates to the patches that 
introduces the change? So there should be a separate release notes update patch.

Thanks.