[09/10] doc: add the sample flow limitation description
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Message ID 1602251436-269694-10-git-send-email-jiaweiw@nvidia.com
State Superseded, archived
Delegated to: Raslan Darawsheh
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  • Add sampling and mirroring support in MLX5 PMD
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Jiawei Wang Oct. 9, 2020, 1:50 p.m. UTC 
Add description about the sample flow limitation.
Sample Flow supports in NIC-Rx and E-Switch domains.
Due to Metadata register c0 is deleted while doing the loopback,
so that only support forward the sampling packet into
E-Switch manager port, no additional action support in sample flow.

Signed-off-by: Jiawei Wang <jiaweiw@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>
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 doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

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diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
index b0614ae..166310f 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
@@ -311,6 +311,12 @@  Limitations
     for some NICs (such as ConnectX-6 Dx and BlueField 2).
     The capability bit ``scatter_fcs_w_decap_disable`` shows NIC support.
 
+- Sample flow:
+
+  - Supports ``RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_SAMPLE`` action only within NIC Rx and E-Switch steering domain.
+  - The E-Switch Sample flow must have the eswitch_manager VPORT destination (PF or ECPF) and no additional actions.
+  - For ConnectX-5, the ``RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_SAMPLE`` is typically used as first action in the E-Switch egress flow if with header modify or encapsulation actions.
+
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