[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: update metadata feature description for mlx5

Raslan Darawsheh rasland at mellanox.com
Mon Nov 25 09:29:14 CET 2019


Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at mellanox.com>
> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2019 1:21 PM
> To: dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: Matan Azrad <matan at mellanox.com>; Raslan Darawsheh
> <rasland at mellanox.com>; Ori Kam <orika at mellanox.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] doc: update metadata feature description for mlx5
> 
> Legacy Verbs supports MARK and FLAG metadata actions only.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at mellanox.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> index 9351de6..6598e2f 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> @@ -666,6 +666,10 @@ Run-time configuration
> 
>    Disabled by default (set to 0).
> 
> +  The Direct Verbs/Rules (engaged with ``dv_flow_en`` = 1) supports all
> +  of the extensive metadata features. The legacy Verbs supports FLAG and
> +  MARK metadata actions over NIC Rx steering domain only.
> +
>  - ``dv_flow_en`` parameter [int]
> 
>    A nonzero value enables the DV flow steering assuming it is supported
> --
> 1.8.3.1

Patch applied to next-net-mlx,

Kindest regards,
Raslan Darawsheh


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