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From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] doc: update mlx4 flow limitations
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 17:30:30 -0200
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On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 06:55:54AM +0000, Ophir Munk wrote:
> From: Moti Haimovsky <motih@mellanox.com>
> 
> This patch updates mlx4 documentation with flow
> configuration limitations imposed by NIC hardware and
> PMD implementation
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ophir Munk <ophirmu@mellanox.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/nics/mlx4.rst | 77 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 77 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx4.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx4.rst
> index 98b9716..b81a875 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx4.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx4.rst
> @@ -515,3 +515,80 @@ devices managed by librte_pmd_mlx4.
>        Port 3 Link Up - speed 40000 Mbps - full-duplex
>        Done
>        testpmd>
> +
> +Limitations
> +-----------
> +
> +Flow rules
> +~~~~~~~~~~
> +
> +L2 (eth)
> +^^^^^^^^
> +
> +- Can only use real destination MAC
> +- Source MAC is not taken into consideration
> +
> +  For example using testpmd command - src mask must be 00:00:00:00:00:00
> +  otherwise the following command will fail
> +
> +.. code-block:: console
> +
> +     testpmd> flow create 1 ingress pattern eth
> +              src spec 00:16:3e:2b:e6:47 src mask FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
> +              / end actions drop / end
> +
> +- Supports only full MASK
> +
> +  For example the following testpmd command will fail
> +
> +.. code-block:: console
> +
> +     testpmd> flow create 1 ingress pattern eth
> +              src spec 00:16:3e:2b:e6:47
> +              dst spec 4A:11:6C:FA:60:D0 dst mask FF:00:FF:FF:FF:00
> +              / end actions drop / end
> +
> +
> +- When configured to run in promiscuous or all-multicast modes does
> +  not support additional rules
> +- Does not support the explicit exclusion of all multicast traffic
> +- Does not support partial VLAN TCI VID matching
> +
> +L3 (ipv4)
> +^^^^^^^^^
> +
> +- Supports only 0 or full mask. Prerequisites: Need to have eth dst spec

Plans on updating mlx5 guide with this info too?
AFAIK ConnectX-4 and 5 also have this limitation and it can save some
hours of debugging.

  Marcelo