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From: Maayan Kashani <mkashani@nvidia.com>
To: <dev@dpdk.org>
Cc: <mkashani@nvidia.com>, <rasland@nvidia.com>, <stable@dpdk.org>,
	"Dariusz Sosnowski" <dsosnowski@nvidia.com>,
	Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>,
	Bing Zhao <bingz@nvidia.com>, Ori Kam <orika@nvidia.com>,
	Suanming Mou <suanmingm@nvidia.com>,
	Matan Azrad <matan@nvidia.com>, Alex Vesker <valex@nvidia.com>
Subject: [PATCH] doc: document mlx5 HWS actions order
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 15:36:09 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240717123620.245635-1-mkashani@nvidia.com> (raw)

Add actions order supported in mlx5 PMD when HW steering flow engine is used.
This limitation existed since HW Steering flow engine was introduced.

Fixes: 22681deead3e ("net/mlx5/hws: enable hardware steering")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Maayan Kashani <mkashani@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Dariusz Sosnowski <dsosnowski@nvidia.com>
---
 doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
index 43fc181d8dc..01f6f7aa6ab 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
@@ -251,6 +251,25 @@ Limitations
     IPv6 routing extension matching is not supported in flow template relaxed
     matching mode (see ``struct rte_flow_pattern_template_attr::relaxed_matching``).
 
+  - The supported actions order is as below::
+
+          MARK(a)
+          *_DECAP(b)
+          OF_POP_VLAN
+          COUNT | AGE
+          METER_MARK | CONNTRACK
+          OF_PUSH_VLAN
+          MODIFY_FIELD
+          *_ENCAP(c)
+          JUMP | DROP | RSS(a) | QUEUE(a) | REPRESENTED_PORT(d)
+
+    a. Only supported on ingress.
+    b. Any decapsulation action, including the combination of RAW_ENCAP and RAW_DECAP actions
+       which results in L3 decapsulation.
+    c. Any encapsulation action, including the combination of RAW_ENCAP and RAW_DECAP actions
+       which results in L3 encap.
+    d. Only in transfer (switchdev) mode.
+
 - When using Verbs flow engine (``dv_flow_en`` = 0), flow pattern without any
   specific VLAN will match for VLAN packets as well:
 
-- 
2.25.1


             reply	other threads:[~2024-07-17 12:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-17 12:36 Maayan Kashani [this message]
2024-07-17 12:56 ` Maayan Kashani
2024-07-24  7:36   ` [PATCH v2] " Maayan Kashani
2024-07-29 20:50     ` Thomas Monjalon

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