From: Maayan Kashani <mkashani@nvidia.com>
To: <dev@dpdk.org>
Cc: <mkashani@nvidia.com>, <rasland@nvidia.com>,
Bing Zhao <bingz@nvidia.com>,
Dariusz Sosnowski <dsosnowski@nvidia.com>,
Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>,
Ori Kam <orika@nvidia.com>, Suanming Mou <suanmingm@nvidia.com>,
Matan Azrad <matan@nvidia.com>
Subject: [PATCH] doc: update IPv6 5-tuple matching limitation
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2025 12:17:45 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250807091746.155668-1-mkashani@nvidia.com> (raw)
Update IPv6 5-tuple matching limitation,
in newer HW, IPv6 5-tuple matching is
supported.
Signed-off-by: Maayan Kashani <mkashani@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Bing Zhao <bingz@nvidia.com>
---
doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 10 +++++++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
index 86fe747c166..97a200443ec 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
@@ -1381,8 +1381,6 @@ Limitations
- ``-EAGAIN`` for ``rte_eth_dev_start()``.
- ``-EBUSY`` for ``rte_eth_dev_stop()``.
-#. Partial match with item template is not supported.
-
#. The supported actions order is as below::
MARK (a)
@@ -3324,7 +3322,13 @@ See :ref:`mlx5_firmware_config` for more details about the flex parser profile.
Limitations
^^^^^^^^^^^
-#. IPv6 5-tuple matching is not supported with :ref:`HW steering <mlx5_hws>`.
+#. IPv6 5-tuple matching is supported with :ref:`HW steering <mlx5_hws>`
+ from ConnectX-8/BlueField-3.
+ Previous NICs support matching on either IPv6 src or dst in a rule.
+ In general, the matching limitation is related to the number of DWORDS:
+ older hardware supports up to 5 DWORDS for matching,
+ while newer hardware (ConnectX-8/BlueField-3 and up)
+ supports up to 11 DWORDS for matching.
#. IPv6 multicast messages are not supported on VM,
while promiscuous mode and allmulticast mode are both set to off.
--
2.21.0
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2025-08-07 9:17 Maayan Kashani [this message]
2025-08-18 6:35 ` [PATCH] doc: update IPv6 5-tuple matching limitation Raslan Darawsheh
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