[PATCH] net/mlx5: document IP fragment matching limitations
Dariusz Sosnowski
dsosnowski at nvidia.com
Fri Jul 18 13:51:56 CEST 2025
NVIDIA NICs do not support matching on packet headers appearing
after IP header if the received packet is an IP fragment.
This patch updates the relevant documentation.
Bugzilla ID: 1417
Signed-off-by: Dariusz Sosnowski <dsosnowski at nvidia.com>
---
Depends-on: series-35735 ("rework mlx5 guide")
FYI - I added Bugzilla ticket ID just for reference.
Patch does not resolve the issue, just adds missing documentation
for existing limitation.
doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
index f29408eace..f58fea106a 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
@@ -3305,6 +3305,13 @@ Limitations
#. IP-in-IP is not supported with :ref:`HW steering <mlx5_hws>`.
+#. Matching on packet headers appearing after an IP header is not supported
+ if that packet is an IP fragment:
+
+ - For example: If a flow rule with pattern matching on L4 header contents is created,
+ and the first IP fragment is received,
+ then this IP fragment will miss on that flow rule.
+
.. _mlx5_nat64:
--
2.39.5
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