Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v4 2/3] doc: input set requirement of each pctype for FDIR

["Zhao1, Wei" <wei.zhao1@intel.com>]

Hi, 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yigit, Ferruh <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2020 6:35 PM
> To: Zhao1, Wei <wei.zhao1@intel.com>; dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org; Xing, Beilei <beilei.xing@intel.com>;
> maxime.leroy@6wind.com
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v4 2/3] doc: input set requirement of each
> pctype for FDIR
> 
> On 4/29/2020 3:03 AM, Wei Zhao wrote:
> > Add input set requirement info to i40e doc.
> >
> > Bugzilla ID: 403
> 
> Should this document update backported to the LTS?
> If so which LTS versions are in the scope, it is better if you can add a fixes tag to
> help us to figure out that.

Maybe we can use this, it is the latest update for i40 doc.
Btw, this is not a bug although it is report in bug list.

Fixes: 3d91e097a352 ("doc: add feature support matrix link in i40e guide ")

> 
> > Signed-off-by: Wei Zhao <wei.zhao1@intel.com>
> > ---
> >  doc/guides/nics/i40e.rst | 7 +++++++
> >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/i40e.rst b/doc/guides/nics/i40e.rst index
> > 416b3904e..f085a357c 100644
> > --- a/doc/guides/nics/i40e.rst
> > +++ b/doc/guides/nics/i40e.rst
> > @@ -747,6 +747,13 @@ Use 16 Bytes RX Descriptor Size  As i40e PMD
> > supports both 16 and 32 bytes RX descriptor sizes, and 16 bytes size can
> provide helps to high performance of small packets.
> >  Configuration of ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_I40E_16BYTE_RX_DESC`` in config
> files can be changed to use 16 bytes size RX descriptors.
> >
> > +input set requirement of each pctype for FDIR
> > +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > +
> > +Each PCTYPE can only have one specific FDIR input set at one time.
> > +For example, if creating 2 rte_flow rules with different input set
> > +for one PCTYPE, it is will fail and return the info "Conflict with the first rule's
> input set", which means the current rule's input set is conflict with the first
> rule's. Remove the first rule if want to change the input set of the PCTYPE.
> > +
> >  Example of getting best performance with l3fwd example
> >  ------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >