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[8/8] doc: update GENEVE TLV option support

Message ID 1609085183-25229-9-git-send-email-shirik@nvidia.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
Delegated to: Ferruh Yigit
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Series ethdev: introduce GENEVE header TLV option item |

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Commit Message

Shiri Kuzin Dec. 27, 2020, 4:06 p.m. UTC 
  GENEVE TLV option support added to mlx5 PMD.

The limitations and support were updated in
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Shiri Kuzin <shirik@nvidia.com>
---
 doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
index 3bda0f8..9700fe5 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@  Features
 - Hardware LRO.
 - Hairpin.
 - Multiple-thread flow insertion.
+- Matching on Geneve TLV option header with raw encap/decap action.
 
 Limitations
 -----------
@@ -175,7 +176,18 @@  Limitations
      - OAM
      - protocol type
      - options length
-       Currently, the only supported options length value is 0.
+
+- Match on Geneve TLv option is supported on the following fields:
+     - Class
+     - Type
+     - Length
+     - Data
+
+  Only one Class/Type/Length Geneve TLV option is supported per shared device.
+  Class/Type/Length fields must be specified as well as masks.
+  Class/Type/Length specified masks must be full.
+  Matching Geneve TLV option without specifying data is not supported.
+  Matching Geneve TLV option with data & mask == 0 is not supported.
 
 - VF: flow rules created on VF devices can only match traffic targeted at the
   configured MAC addresses (see ``rte_eth_dev_mac_addr_add()``).
@@ -1022,6 +1034,10 @@  Below are some firmware configurations listed.
    or
    FLEX_PARSER_PROFILE_ENABLE=1
 
+- enable Geneve TLV option flow matching::
+
+   FLEX_PARSER_PROFILE_ENABLE=0
+
 - enable GTP flow matching::
 
    FLEX_PARSER_PROFILE_ENABLE=3