[v3,7/7] doc: update mlx5 hairpin support and limitations
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Hairpin between two ports will be supported by mlx5 PMD.
The supported scenarios and limitations are listed in "mlx5.rst".
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bingz@nvidia.com>
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doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 5 +++++
doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst | 1 +
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bing Zhao <bingz@nvidia.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 26, 2020 18:38
> To: viacheslavo@mellanox.com; matan@mellanox.com
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Ori Kam <orika@nvidia.com>; Raslan Darawsheh
> <rasland@nvidia.com>
> Subject: [PATCH v3 7/7] doc: update mlx5 hairpin support and limitations
>
> Hairpin between two ports will be supported by mlx5 PMD.
>
> The supported scenarios and limitations are listed in "mlx5.rst".
>
> Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bingz@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>
@@ -326,6 +326,11 @@ Limitations
The last extension header item 'next header' field can specify the following
header protocol type.
+- Hairpin:
+
+ - Hairpin between two ports could only manual binding and explicit Tx flow mode. For single port hairpin, all the combinations of auto/manual binding and explicit/implicit Tx flow mode could be supported.
+ - Hairpin in switchdev SR-IOV mode is not supported till now.
+
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@@ -354,6 +354,7 @@ New Features
* Updated the supported timeout for Age action to the maximal value supported
by rte_flow API.
* Added support of Age action query.
+ * Added support of multi-ports hairpin.
* **Updated vhost sample application.**