[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: update RSS action with best effort

[Ori Kam]

Hi David,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
> 
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 5:23 PM Ori Kam <orika at mellanox.com> wrote:
> > > > +
> > > > +- Hashing on types that are not supported by the PMD.
> > >
> > > Shouldn't it return error to the caller?
> > >
> > That’s depends, if for example the application requested eth and IPv4,
> > and the PMD can do only IPv4 so according to this, the PMD will just do IPv4.
> 
> We should have some validation in ethdev to catch this.
> Is it not the case?
> 
Like I said in my reply to Andrew, in rte_flow we don't have such caps.
Maybe we should think about adding them for the RSS case, but again it is tricky
What if one RSS type is supported depending on the flow or other types?

> 
> --
> David Marchand