[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] doc: remove comments about deprecated fdir in enic guide

John Daley johndale at cisco.com
Thu Sep 5 23:33:18 CEST 2019


The legacy filter API "flow director" has been superseded by rte_flow
since 2017. Remove comments in the enic guide regarding the deprecated
feature.

Signed-off-by: John Daley <johndale at cisco.com>
Reviewed-by: Hyong Youb Kim <hyonkim at cisco.com>
---
 doc/guides/nics/enic.rst | 33 +++++++--------------------------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/enic.rst b/doc/guides/nics/enic.rst
index 5681bdb54..5e80398bf 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/enic.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/enic.rst
@@ -107,24 +107,6 @@ Configuration information
     TCP, IPv4, TCP-IPv4, IPv6, TCP-IPv6, IPv6 Extension, TCP-IPv6 Extension.
 
 
-.. _enic-flow-director:
-
-Flow director support
----------------------
-
-Advanced filtering support was added to 1300 series VIC firmware starting
-with version 2.0.13 for C-series UCS servers and version 3.1.2 for UCSM
-managed blade servers. In order to enable advanced filtering the 'Advanced
-filter' radio button should be enabled via CIMC or UCSM followed by a reboot
-of the server.
-
-With advanced filters, perfect matching of all fields of IPv4, IPv6 headers
-as well as TCP, UDP and SCTP L4 headers is available through flow director.
-Masking of these fields for partial match is also supported.
-
-Without advanced filter support, the flow director is limited to IPv4
-perfect filtering of the 5-tuple with no masking of fields supported.
-
 SR-IOV mode utilization
 -----------------------
 
@@ -229,7 +211,13 @@ the use of SR-IOV.
 Generic Flow API support
 ------------------------
 
-Generic Flow API is supported. The baseline support is:
+Generic Flow API (also called "rte_flow" API) is supported. More advanced
+capabilities are available when "Advanced Filtering" is enabled on the adapter.
+Advanced filtering was added to 1300 series VIC firmware starting with version
+2.0.13 for C-series UCS servers and version 3.1.2 for UCSM managed blade
+servers. Advanced filtering is available on 1400 series adapters and beyond.
+To enable advanced filtering, the 'Advanced filter' radio button should be
+selected via CIMC or UCSM followed by a reboot of the server.
 
 - **1200 series VICs**
 
@@ -420,12 +408,6 @@ PKT_RX_VLAN_STRIPPED mbuf flags would not be set. This mode is enabled with the
 
     -w 12:00.0,ig-vlan-rewrite=untag
 
-- Limited flow director support on 1200 series and 1300 series Cisco VIC
-  adapters with old firmware. Please see :ref:`enic-flow-director`.
-
-- Flow director features are not supported on generation 1 Cisco VIC adapters
-  (M81KR and P81E)
-
 - **SR-IOV**
 
   - KVM hypervisor support only. VMware has not been tested.
@@ -512,7 +494,6 @@ Supported features
 - IP checksum offload
 - Receive side VLAN stripping
 - Multiple receive and transmit queues
-- Flow Director ADD, UPDATE, DELETE, STATS operation support IPv4 and IPv6
 - Promiscuous mode
 - Setting RX VLAN (supported via UCSM/CIMC only)
 - VLAN filtering (supported via UCSM/CIMC only)
-- 
2.22.0



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