Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/3] net/mlx5: add a parameter for Netlink support in VF

[Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>]

Wednesday, March 21, 2018 3:40 PM, Nelio Laranjeiro:
> All Netlink request the PMD will do can also be done by a iproute2 command
> line interface, letting the operator configure the VF behavior without having
> to modify the application nor reaching PMD limits (e.g. MAC address number
> limit).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>
> Acked-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 11 +++++++++++  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c  |  9
> ++++++++-  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.h  |  1 +
>  3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst index
> 46d26e4c8..4c7bf1c56 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> @@ -135,6 +135,8 @@ Limitations
>  - Flows with a VXLAN Network Identifier equal (or ends to be equal)
>    to 0 are not supported.
>  - VXLAN TSO and checksum offloads are not supported on VM.
> +- VF: flow rules created on VF devices can only match traffic targeted
> +at the
> +  configured MAC addresses (see ``rte_eth_dev_mac_addr_add()``).

Should this comment be in the first patch of the series?