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[v2] doc: add known issue in i40e guide

Message ID 20220906025858.17550-1-stevex.yang@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
Delegated to: Qi Zhang
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Series [v2] doc: add known issue in i40e guide |

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Commit Message

Steve Yang Sept. 6, 2022, 2:58 a.m. UTC 
  Add a known issue: configuring VLAN filters from VF is unsupported
for driver 2.17.15.

Signed-off-by: Steve Yang <stevex.yang@intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/nics/i40e.rst | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

Comments

Qi Zhang Sept. 6, 2022, 4:35 a.m. UTC | #1 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Yang <stevex.yang@intel.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2022 10:59 AM
> To: dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: Zhang, Yuying <yuying.zhang@intel.com>; Xing, Beilei
> <beilei.xing@intel.com>; Yang, SteveX <stevex.yang@intel.com>
> Subject: [PATCH v2] doc: add known issue in i40e guide
> 
> Add a known issue: configuring VLAN filters from VF is unsupported for
> driver 2.17.15.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steve Yang <stevex.yang@intel.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/nics/i40e.rst | 7 +++++++

Please rebase to below patch as it's better to document all VF related knowing limitation in VF's own doc file.
i40e.rst , ice.rst only for DPDK PF driver now.
https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20220906124200.4025474-1-qi.z.zhang@intel.com/
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diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/i40e.rst b/doc/guides/nics/i40e.rst
index 4875774346..78247a496d 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/i40e.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/i40e.rst
@@ -731,6 +731,13 @@  Vlan strip of VF
 
 The VF vlan strip function is only supported in the i40e kernel driver >= 2.1.26.
 
+Vlan filtering of VF
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+For i40e driver 2.17.15, configuring VLAN filters from the DPDK VF is unsupported.
+When applying VLAN filters on the VF it must first be configured from
+the corresponding PF.
+
 DCB function
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~