doc: add note about VMXNET3 on AMD with ESXI.

Message ID 20230814115500.2696-1-igordptx@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: Ferruh Yigit
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Series doc: add note about VMXNET3 on AMD with ESXI. |

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Commit Message

Igor de Paula Aug. 14, 2023, 11:55 a.m. UTC
  This patch notes the requirements for ESXI version 7.0.1
or higher when using IOVA as VA.

Signed-off-by: Igor de Paula <igordptx@gmail.com>
---
 .mailmap                    | 1 +
 doc/guides/nics/vmxnet3.rst | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)
  

Comments

Ferruh Yigit Sept. 28, 2023, 4:58 p.m. UTC | #1
On 8/14/2023 12:55 PM, Igor de Paula wrote:
> This patch notes the requirements for ESXI version 7.0.1
> or higher when using IOVA as VA.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Igor de Paula <igordptx@gmail.com>
> 

Thanks Igor for the contribution.


Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com>

Applied to dpdk-next-net/main, thanks.
  

Patch

diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap
index 864d33ee46..cbcc1153a6 100644
--- a/.mailmap
+++ b/.mailmap
@@ -1638,3 +1638,4 @@  Ziye Yang <ziye.yang@intel.com>
 Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@schaman.hu> <zoltan.kiss@linaro.org>
 Zorik Machulsky <zorik@amazon.com>
 Zyta Szpak <zyta@marvell.com> <zr@semihalf.com> <zyta.szpak@semihalf.com>
+Igor de Paula <igordptx@gmail.com>
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/vmxnet3.rst b/doc/guides/nics/vmxnet3.rst
index db242cd642..3f498b905d 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/vmxnet3.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/vmxnet3.rst
@@ -100,6 +100,8 @@  There are several options available for filtering packets at VMXNET3 device leve
 
     *   Multicast with Multicast Filter table is not supported.
 
+    *   IOVA as VA on AMD hosts is supported from ESXi 7.0 U1 onwards.
+
 Prerequisites
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