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doc: document IPv6 multicast limitation on VM

Message ID 1542022266-16518-1-git-send-email-dekelp@mellanox.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: Shahaf Shuler
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Series doc: document IPv6 multicast limitation on VM |

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Commit Message

Dekel Peled Nov. 12, 2018, 11:31 a.m. UTC 
This patch adds limitation notice for MLX5 PMD.
IPv6 multicast messages are not received on VM when promiscuous
and allmulticast modes are off, due to netlink restriction.

Signed-off-by: Dekel Peled <dekelp@mellanox.com>
---
 doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

Comments

Shahaf Shuler Nov. 13, 2018, 6:38 a.m. UTC | #1 
Monday, November 12, 2018 1:31 PM, Dekel Peled:
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: document IPv6 multicast limitation on VM
> 
> This patch adds limitation notice for MLX5 PMD.
> IPv6 multicast messages are not received on VM when promiscuous and
> allmulticast modes are off, due to netlink restriction.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dekel Peled <dekelp@mellanox.com>

Applied to next-net-mlx, thanks.
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diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
index 6ab7d8e..3610e00 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
@@ -137,6 +137,11 @@  Limitations
   enabled (``rxq_cqe_comp_en``) at the same time, RSS hash result is not fully
   supported. Some Rx packets may not have PKT_RX_RSS_HASH.
 
+- IPv6 Multicast messages are not supported on VM, while promiscuous mode
+  and allmulticast mode are both set to off.
+  To receive IPv6 Multicast messages on VM, explicitly set the relevant
+  MAC address using rte_eth_dev_mac_addr_add() API.
+
 Statistics
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