[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/mlx5: document workaround for ConnectX-4 with L2 encap

[Raslan Darawsheh]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev <dev-bounces at dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Dmitry Kozlyuk
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2021 10:01 AM
> To: dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org; Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at nvidia.com>; Matan
> Azrad <matan at nvidia.com>; Shahaf Shuler <shahafs at nvidia.com>
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/mlx5: document workaround for
> ConnectX-4 with L2 encap
> 
> ConnectX-4 and ConnectX-4 Lx NICs require all L2 headers of transmitted
> packets to be inlined. By default only first 18 bytes are inlined,
> which is insufficient if additional encapsulation is used, like Q-in-Q.
> Thus, default settings caused such traffic to be dropepd on Tx.
> Document a workaround to increase inlined data size in such cases.
> 
> Fixes: 505f1fe426d3 ("net/mlx5: add Tx devargs")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dkozlyuk at nvidia.com>
> Reviewed-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at nvidia.com>

Patch applied to next-net-mlx,

Kindest regards,
Raslan Darawsheh