[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/3] net/mlx5: add a parameter for Netlink support in VF
Shahaf Shuler
shahafs at mellanox.com
Thu Mar 22 08:38:53 CET 2018
Wednesday, March 21, 2018 3:40 PM, Nelio Laranjeiro:
> All Netlink request the PMD will do can also be done by a iproute2 command
> line interface, letting the operator configure the VF behavior without having
> to modify the application nor reaching PMD limits (e.g. MAC address number
> limit).
>
> Signed-off-by: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranjeiro at 6wind.com>
> Acked-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil at 6wind.com>
> ---
> doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 11 +++++++++++ drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c | 9
> ++++++++- drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.h | 1 +
> 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst index
> 46d26e4c8..4c7bf1c56 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> @@ -135,6 +135,8 @@ Limitations
> - Flows with a VXLAN Network Identifier equal (or ends to be equal)
> to 0 are not supported.
> - VXLAN TSO and checksum offloads are not supported on VM.
> +- VF: flow rules created on VF devices can only match traffic targeted
> +at the
> + configured MAC addresses (see ``rte_eth_dev_mac_addr_add()``).
Should this comment be in the first patch of the series?
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