doc: update match with E-Switch manager dependency

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Suanming Mou June 19, 2024, 4:19 a.m. UTC
Update the description of match with E-Switch manager
dependency on upstream Linux and rdma-core in case user
will not install MLNX_OFED.

Signed-off-by: Suanming Mou <suanmingm@nvidia.com>
---
 doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
  

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Dariusz Sosnowski June 19, 2024, 3:20 p.m. UTC | #1
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suanming Mou <suanmingm@nvidia.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2024 06:19
> To: NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon (EXTERNAL) <thomas@monjalon.net>;
> Dariusz Sosnowski <dsosnowski@nvidia.com>; Slava Ovsiienko
> <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>; Ori Kam <orika@nvidia.com>; Matan Azrad
> <matan@nvidia.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: [PATCH] doc: update match with E-Switch manager dependency
> 
> Update the description of match with E-Switch manager dependency on upstream
> Linux and rdma-core in case user will not install MLNX_OFED.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Suanming Mou <suanmingm@nvidia.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst index
> 8afb32ed35..8e8a19f64d 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> @@ -913,7 +913,8 @@ Limitations
> 
>  - In switch mode, flow rule matching
> ``RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_REPRESENTED_PORT``
>    item with port_id ``UINT16_MAX`` means matching with packets sent by E-
> Switch
> -  manager from software. Need MLNX_OFED 24.04+.
> +  manager from software.
> +  Need upstream Linux 6.7+ and rdma-core 50.0+ or MLNX_OFED 24.04+.

Typo: s/Need/Needs/

> 
>  Statistics
> --
> 2.34.1

With the above change:
Acked-by: Dariusz Sosnowski <dsosnowski@nvidia.com>

Best regards,
Dariusz Sosnowski
  

Patch

diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
index 8afb32ed35..8e8a19f64d 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
@@ -913,7 +913,8 @@  Limitations
 
 - In switch mode, flow rule matching ``RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_REPRESENTED_PORT``
   item with port_id ``UINT16_MAX`` means matching with packets sent by E-Switch
-  manager from software. Need MLNX_OFED 24.04+.
+  manager from software.
+  Need upstream Linux 6.7+ and rdma-core 50.0+ or MLNX_OFED 24.04+.
 
 
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