doc: add ixgbe known issue with RSS

Message ID 20210119070152.108107-1-beilei.xing@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: Qi Zhang
Headers
Series doc: add ixgbe known issue with RSS |

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Commit Message

Xing, Beilei Jan. 19, 2021, 7:01 a.m. UTC
  From: Beilei Xing <beilei.xing@intel.com>

Currently, IXGBE doesn't support RSS when double VLAN
is enabled due to FW limitation.

Signed-off-by: Beilei Xing <beilei.xing@intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
  

Comments

Wang, Haiyue Jan. 19, 2021, 7:21 a.m. UTC | #1
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xing, Beilei <beilei.xing@intel.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2021 15:02
> To: Wang, Haiyue <haiyue.wang@intel.com>; dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: Xing, Beilei <beilei.xing@intel.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] doc: add ixgbe known issue with RSS
> 
> From: Beilei Xing <beilei.xing@intel.com>
> 
> Currently, IXGBE doesn't support RSS when double VLAN
> is enabled due to FW limitation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Beilei Xing <beilei.xing@intel.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

Acked-by: Haiyue Wang <haiyue.wang@intel.com>

> 
> --
> 2.26.2
  
Qi Zhang Jan. 19, 2021, 1:16 p.m. UTC | #2
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev <dev-bounces@dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Wang, Haiyue
> Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2021 3:22 PM
> To: Xing, Beilei <beilei.xing@intel.com>; dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: add ixgbe known issue with RSS
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Xing, Beilei <beilei.xing@intel.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2021 15:02
> > To: Wang, Haiyue <haiyue.wang@intel.com>; dev@dpdk.org
> > Cc: Xing, Beilei <beilei.xing@intel.com>
> > Subject: [PATCH] doc: add ixgbe known issue with RSS
> >
> > From: Beilei Xing <beilei.xing@intel.com>
> >
> > Currently, IXGBE doesn't support RSS when double VLAN is enabled due
> > to FW limitation.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Beilei Xing <beilei.xing@intel.com>
> > ---
> >  doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst | 5 +++++
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> Acked-by: Haiyue Wang <haiyue.wang@intel.com>

Applied to dpdk-next-net-intel.

Thanks
Qi
  

Patch

diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst b/doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst
index c801dbae81..696cbd93ba 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst
@@ -252,6 +252,11 @@  Before binding ``vfio`` with legacy mode in X550 NICs, use ``modprobe vfio ``
 ``nointxmask=1`` to load ``vfio`` module if the intx is not shared with other
 devices.
 
+RSS isn't supported when QinQ is enabled
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Due to FW limitation, IXGBE doesn't support RSS when QinQ is enabled currently.
+
 Inline crypto processing support
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