doc: update metadata feature description for mlx5

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State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: Raslan Darawsheh
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Series doc: update metadata feature description for mlx5 |

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Commit Message

Slava Ovsiienko Nov. 18, 2019, 11:20 a.m. UTC
  Legacy Verbs supports MARK and FLAG metadata actions only.

Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>
---
 doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
  

Comments

Raslan Darawsheh Nov. 25, 2019, 8:29 a.m. UTC | #1
Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>
> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2019 1:21 PM
> To: dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: Matan Azrad <matan@mellanox.com>; Raslan Darawsheh
> <rasland@mellanox.com>; Ori Kam <orika@mellanox.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] doc: update metadata feature description for mlx5
> 
> Legacy Verbs supports MARK and FLAG metadata actions only.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> index 9351de6..6598e2f 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> @@ -666,6 +666,10 @@ Run-time configuration
> 
>    Disabled by default (set to 0).
> 
> +  The Direct Verbs/Rules (engaged with ``dv_flow_en`` = 1) supports all
> +  of the extensive metadata features. The legacy Verbs supports FLAG and
> +  MARK metadata actions over NIC Rx steering domain only.
> +
>  - ``dv_flow_en`` parameter [int]
> 
>    A nonzero value enables the DV flow steering assuming it is supported
> --
> 1.8.3.1

Patch applied to next-net-mlx,

Kindest regards,
Raslan Darawsheh
  

Patch

diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
index 9351de6..6598e2f 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
@@ -666,6 +666,10 @@  Run-time configuration
 
   Disabled by default (set to 0).
 
+  The Direct Verbs/Rules (engaged with ``dv_flow_en`` = 1) supports all
+  of the extensive metadata features. The legacy Verbs supports FLAG and
+  MARK metadata actions over NIC Rx steering domain only.
+
 - ``dv_flow_en`` parameter [int]
 
   A nonzero value enables the DV flow steering assuming it is supported