[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: update RSS action with best effort

[Andrew Rybchenko]

On 8/3/20 6:49 PM, Ori Kam wrote:
> Hi David,
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 5:23 PM Ori Kam <orika at mellanox.com> wrote:
>>>>> +
>>>>> +- Hashing on types that are not supported by the PMD.
>>>> Shouldn't it return error to the caller?
>>>>
>>> That’s depends, if for example the application requested eth and IPv4,
>>> and the PMD can do only IPv4 so according to this, the PMD will just do IPv4.
>> We should have some validation in ethdev to catch this.
>> Is it not the case?
>>
> Like I said in my reply to Andrew, in rte_flow we don't have such caps.
> Maybe we should think about adding them for the RSS case, but again it is tricky
> What if one RSS type is supported depending on the flow or other types?

Also I'd like to add that ethdev layer is dummy for rte_flow API.
It does not parse pattern/actions etc. May be should change it one day.