[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: update testpmd user guide for clarity

Dekel Peled dekelp at mellanox.com
Sun Nov 4 11:15:45 CET 2018


The description of prefix for mask creation was misunderstood.
I updated the description, so it is clearly understood which
mask will be created by a certain prefix.

Signed-off-by: Dekel Peled <dekelp at mellanox.com>
---
 doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/testpmd_funcs.rst | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/testpmd_funcs.rst b/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/testpmd_funcs.rst
index e23079b..ad640bf 100644
--- a/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/testpmd_funcs.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/testpmd_funcs.rst
@@ -3499,7 +3499,7 @@ accordingly. Possible assignment tokens are:
 - ``spec``: match value according to configured bit-mask.
 - ``last``: specify upper bound to establish a range.
 - ``mask``: specify bit-mask with relevant bits set to one.
-- ``prefix``: generate bit-mask from a prefix length.
+- ``prefix``: generate bit-mask with <prefix-length> most-significant bits set to one.
 
 These yield identical results::
 
-- 
1.8.3.1



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