[PATCH] doc: update match with compare result item limitation

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Wed Nov 6 19:29:19 CET 2024


On Tue, 5 Nov 2024 09:47:36 +0800
Suanming Mou <suanmingm at nvidia.com> wrote:

> +  - In switch mode, when ``repr_matching_en`` flag is enabled in the devarg,
> +    the match with compare result item is not supported to the ``ingress``
> +    rule as an implicit REPRESENTED_PORT need to be added to the matcher.
> +    That REPRESENTED_PORT item conflicts with the single item limitation for
> +    match with compare result item.

These sentences are hard to read, the wording is very awkward.

Have no detailed insight into the mlx5 matching but maybe this wording:

In switch mode, when the ``repr_matching_en`` flag is used then matching
with ingress comparison is not supported because an implicit rule is required
to match the REPRESENTED_PORT. And that implicit rule would conflict with the
ingress compare rule.


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