[PATCH 2/2] doc: update MLX5 LRO limitation

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Mon Nov 21 16:23:21 CET 2022


17/11/2022 15:39, Gregory Etelson:
> Maximal LRO message size must be multiply of 256.
> Otherwise, TCP payload may not fit into a single WQE.
> 
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> Signed-off-by: Gregory Etelson <getelson at nvidia.com>
> Acked-by: Matan Azrad <matan at nvidia.com>

Why the doc update is not in the same patch as the code change?

> @@ -278,6 +278,9 @@ Limitations
>  - No Tx metadata go to the E-Switch steering domain for the Flow group 0.
>    The flows within group 0 and set metadata action are rejected by hardware.
>  
> +- The driver rounds down the ``max_lro_pkt_size`` value in the port
> +  configuration to a multiple of 256 due to HW limitation.
> +
>  .. note::
>  
>     MAC addresses not already present in the bridge table of the associated

If you would like to read the doc, I guess you'd prefer to find this info
in the section dedicated to LRO, not in a random place.







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