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From: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] doc: update mlx4 flow limitations
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 07:41:03 +0000
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Hi Marcelo,

Sunday, February 11, 2018 9:31 PM, Marcelo Ricardo:
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 06:55:54AM +0000, Ophir Munk wrote:
> > From: Moti Haimovsky <motih@mellanox.com>
> >
> > This patch updates mlx4 documentation with flow configuration
> > limitations imposed by NIC hardware and PMD implementation
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ophir Munk <ophirmu@mellanox.com>
> > ---
> >  doc/guides/nics/mlx4.rst | 77
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 77 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx4.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx4.rst index
> > 98b9716..b81a875 100644
> > --- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx4.rst
> > +++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx4.rst
> > @@ -515,3 +515,80 @@ devices managed by librte_pmd_mlx4.
> >        Port 3 Link Up - speed 40000 Mbps - full-duplex
> >        Done
> >        testpmd>
> > +
> > +Limitations
> > +-----------
> > +
> > +Flow rules
> > +~~~~~~~~~~
> > +
> > +L2 (eth)
> > +^^^^^^^^
> > +
> > +- Can only use real destination MAC
> > +- Source MAC is not taken into consideration
> > +
> > +  For example using testpmd command - src mask must be
> > + 00:00:00:00:00:00  otherwise the following command will fail
> > +
> > +.. code-block:: console
> > +
> > +     testpmd> flow create 1 ingress pattern eth
> > +              src spec 00:16:3e:2b:e6:47 src mask FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
> > +              / end actions drop / end
> > +
> > +- Supports only full MASK
> > +
> > +  For example the following testpmd command will fail
> > +
> > +.. code-block:: console
> > +
> > +     testpmd> flow create 1 ingress pattern eth
> > +              src spec 00:16:3e:2b:e6:47
> > +              dst spec 4A:11:6C:FA:60:D0 dst mask FF:00:FF:FF:FF:00
> > +              / end actions drop / end
> > +
> > +
> > +- When configured to run in promiscuous or all-multicast modes does
> > +  not support additional rules
> > +- Does not support the explicit exclusion of all multicast traffic
> > +- Does not support partial VLAN TCI VID matching
> > +
> > +L3 (ipv4)
> > +^^^^^^^^^
> > +
> > +- Supports only 0 or full mask. Prerequisites: Need to have eth dst
> > +spec
>=20
> Plans on updating mlx5 guide with this info too?
> AFAIK ConnectX-4 and 5 also have this limitation and it can save some hou=
rs
> of debugging.

Which of the above limitations you encountered?=20

>=20
>   Marcelo