From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ophir Munk Subject: [PATCH v1] doc: update tap with systems supported flows Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 14:54:14 +0000 Message-ID: <1518101654-16477-1-git-send-email-ophirmu@mellanox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Thomas Monjalon , Olga Shern , Ophir Munk To: dev@dpdk.org, Pascal Mazon Return-path: Received: from EUR03-DB5-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com (mail-eopbgr40052.outbound.protection.outlook.com [40.107.4.52]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CC7D1B80A for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2018 15:54:28 +0100 (CET) List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Signed-off-by: Ophir Munk --- doc/guides/nics/tap.rst | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/tap.rst b/doc/guides/nics/tap.rst index b69ee67..ea61be3 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/tap.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/tap.rst @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ Supported actions: - DROP - QUEUE - PASSTHRU -- RSS +- RSS (requires kernel 4.9) It is generally not possible to provide a "last" item. However, if the "last" item, once masked, is identical to the masked spec, then it is supported. @@ -241,3 +241,23 @@ Please refer to ``iproute2`` package file ``lib/bpf.c`` function An example utility for eBPF instruction generation in the format of C arrays will be added in next releases +Systems supporting flow API +--------------------------- + +- "tc flower" classifier requires linux kernel above 4.2 +- eBPF/RSS requires linux kernel above 4.9 + ++--------------------+-----------------------+ +| RH7.3 | No flow rule support | ++--------------------+-----------------------+ +| RH7.4 | No RSS action support | ++--------------------+-----------------------+ +| RH7.5 | No RSS action support | ++--------------------+-----------------------+ +| SLES 15, | No limitation | +| kernel 4.12 | | ++--------------------+-----------------------+ +| Azure Ubuntu 16.04,| No limitation | +| kernel 4.13 | | ++--------------------+-----------------------+ + -- 2.7.4