[PATCH v3] doc: comment VF does not support multi-process

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Tue May 16 17:18:05 CEST 2023


On Tue, 16 May 2023 10:22:05 +0000
Mingjin Ye <mingjinx.ye at intel.com> wrote:

> Announcing that multi-process is not supported
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mingjin Ye <mingjinx.ye at intel.com>
> ---
> v2: Modify issue description reason.
> ---
> V3: Modify description.
> ---
>  doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst b/doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst
> index b1d77ab7ab..816d614c33 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst
> @@ -461,3 +461,9 @@ show bypass config
>  Show the bypass configuration for a bypass enabled NIC using the lowest port on the NIC::
>  
>     testpmd> show bypass config (port_id)  
> +
> +VF driver does not support multi-process
> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> +
> +The VF driver does not support multi-process. And some function pointers
> +in the case of multi-process are not set correctly.

This is best done by updating doc/guides/nic/features/ixgbe_vf.ini

That is enough. Don't need to add note in ixgbe.rst.


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