From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: [PATCH 2/3] doc: add references to flow isolated mode in NICs guide Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 12:20:19 +0100 Message-ID: <20190130112020.871-3-thomas@monjalon.net> References: <20190130112020.871-1-thomas@monjalon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org To: john.mcnamara@intel.com, marko.kovacevic@intel.com, shahafs@mellanox.com, yskoh@mellanox.com, Matan Azrad , Tomasz Duszynski , Dmitri Epshtein , Natalie Samsonov , Andrew Rybchenko , Adrien Mazarguil Return-path: Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (out1-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B5E11B395 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2019 12:20:52 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <20190130112020.871-1-thomas@monjalon.net> List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Some drivers (mlx, mvpp2, sfc) support the flow isolated mode, but the feature was not advertised. A reference to the feature description is added for each driver. Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon --- doc/guides/nics/mlx4.rst | 2 ++ doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 2 +- doc/guides/nics/mvpp2.rst | 3 +++ doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst | 2 ++ doc/guides/prog_guide/rte_flow.rst | 6 ++++-- 5 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx4.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx4.rst index 4d4842cde..4ad361a2c 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx4.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx4.rst @@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ This capability allows the PMD to coexist with kernel network interfaces which remain functional, although they stop receiving unicast packets as long as they share the same MAC address. +The :ref:`flow_isolated_mode` is supported. + Compiling librte_pmd_mlx4 causes DPDK to be linked against libibverbs. Configuration diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst index 3f168b161..aa3a884b9 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ Features - Hardware checksum offloads. - Flow director (RTE_FDIR_MODE_PERFECT, RTE_FDIR_MODE_PERFECT_MAC_VLAN and RTE_ETH_FDIR_REJECT). -- Flow API. +- Flow API, including :ref:`flow_isolated_mode`. - Multiple process. - KVM and VMware ESX SR-IOV modes are supported. - RSS hash result is supported. diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mvpp2.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mvpp2.rst index 9dcb93dd9..4101d2d89 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/mvpp2.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/mvpp2.rst @@ -410,6 +410,9 @@ Flow API PPv2 offers packet classification capabilities via classifier engine which can be configured via generic flow API offered by DPDK. + +The :ref:`flow_isolated_mode` is supported. + For an additional description please refer to DPDK :doc:`../prog_guide/rte_flow`. Supported flow actions diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst b/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst index 40065284b..028c92cc3 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst @@ -207,6 +207,8 @@ Supported actions: Validating flow rules depends on the firmware variant. +The :ref:`flow_isolated_mode` is supported. + Ethernet destinaton individual/group match ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/rte_flow.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/rte_flow.rst index 472dcef47..0203f4f61 100644 --- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/rte_flow.rst +++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/rte_flow.rst @@ -2557,8 +2557,10 @@ Return values: - 0 on success, a negative errno value otherwise and ``rte_errno`` is set. -Isolated mode -------------- +.. _flow_isolated_mode: + +Flow isolated mode +------------------ The general expectation for ingress traffic is that flow rules process it first; the remaining unmatched or pass-through traffic usually ends up in a -- 2.20.1