[PATCH 1/2] net/mlx5: support match with switch manager

[Dariusz Sosnowski]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suanming Mou <suanmingm at nvidia.com>
> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2024 05:52
> To: Dariusz Sosnowski <dsosnowski at nvidia.com>; Slava Ovsiienko
> <viacheslavo at nvidia.com>; Ori Kam <orika at nvidia.com>; Matan Azrad
> <matan at nvidia.com>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland at nvidia.com>
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] net/mlx5: support match with switch manager
> 
> Currently, in switch mode, mlx5 PMD only supports match with dedicate vport.

Typo: s/dedicate/dedicated/

> There is a usercase which user may want to offload the rules only to match with
> all the pkt sent by application not from vport.

Typo: s/usercase/use case/

> Since the port_id info of pkt sent by application is switch manager, and kernel
> driver has exposed the switch manager register value, this commit adds the
> support of register matching for switch manager.

Let's expand pkt to packet and I think it would be better to use E-Switch Manager, instead of switch manager,
since it's an already established name in the doca.

> @@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ New Features
>  * **Updated NVIDIA mlx5 driver.**
> 
>    * Added match with Tx queue.
> +  * Added match with switch manager.

s/switch manager/E-Switch manager/

Could you also please expand in mlx5 docs what the feature allows to achieve and how to use it?

And I think that both patches in these series can be squashed into one. What do you think?

Best regards,
Dariusz Sosnowski