From patchwork Fri Mar 31 02:06:22 2017 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: "John Daley (johndale)" X-Patchwork-Id: 22977 X-Patchwork-Delegate: ferruh.yigit@amd.com Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Delivered-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 296172C0B; Fri, 31 Mar 2017 04:06:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: from rcdn-iport-1.cisco.com (rcdn-iport-1.cisco.com [173.37.86.72]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A2932B98 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2017 04:06:27 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=cisco.com; i=@cisco.com; l=3820; q=dns/txt; s=iport; t=1490925987; x=1492135587; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to: references; bh=fvEqI30HbV1ofAoYgSr9VDAKNNbmR5q0DGqr18ZTtws=; b=Ei0kHxRDbMCX55SF67r3aFaNwZdMkgSd+mCDCtnAmoAUUyp2nstJenIO elFUZNacuYZl/y02Wzo1q3wc2rLsWplrAegFdbxAdX/D80TZMrzoGeaYI Hflgo604eSE7E1qHODEjBd4WSpYTEpBcrDHnZTpwywEQvztSeWO+EyOn5 s=; X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.36,250,1486425600"; d="scan'208";a="230574308" Received: from alln-core-4.cisco.com ([173.36.13.137]) by rcdn-iport-1.cisco.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 31 Mar 2017 02:06:26 +0000 Received: from cisco.com (savbu-usnic-a.cisco.com [10.193.184.48]) by alln-core-4.cisco.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id v2V26QVT018666; Fri, 31 Mar 2017 02:06:26 GMT Received: by cisco.com (Postfix, from userid 392789) id 2C1E820F2005; Thu, 30 Mar 2017 19:06:26 -0700 (PDT) From: John Daley To: ferruh.yigit@intel.com, john.mcnamara@intel.com Cc: dev@dpdk.org, John Daley Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 19:06:22 -0700 Message-Id: <20170331020622.25498-8-johndale@cisco.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.12.0 In-Reply-To: <20170331020622.25498-1-johndale@cisco.com> References: <20170330212838.31291-1-johndale@cisco.com> <20170331020622.25498-1-johndale@cisco.com> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 7/7] net/enic: flow API documentation X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Update enic NIC guide, release notes and add flow API to the supported features list. Signed-off-by: John Daley Acked-by: John McNamara --- doc/guides/nics/enic.rst | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ doc/guides/nics/features/enic.ini | 1 + doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_05.rst | 6 +++++ 3 files changed, 51 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/enic.rst b/doc/guides/nics/enic.rst index c535b589c..a71add3ab 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/enic.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/enic.rst @@ -140,6 +140,43 @@ Masking of these feilds for partial match is also supported. Without advanced filter support, the flow director is limited to IPv4 perfect filtering of the 5-tuple with no masking of fields supported. +.. _enic-genic-flow-api: + +Generic Flow API support +------------------------ + +Generic Flow API is supported. The baseline support is: + +- **1200 series VICs** + +5-tuple exact Flow support for 1200 series adapters. This allows: + + - Attributes: ingress + - Items: ipv4, ipv6, udp, tcp (must exactly match src/dst IP + addresses and ports and all must be specified). + - Actions: queue and void + - Selectors: 'is' + +- **1300 series VICS with Advanced filters disabled** + +With advanced filters disabled, an IPv4 or IPv6 item must be specified +in the pattern. + + - Attributes: ingress + - Items: eth, ipv4, ipv6, udp, tcp, vxlan, inner eth (full hdr masking) + - Actions: queue and void + - Selectors: 'is', 'spec' and 'mask'. 'last' is not supported + +- **1300 series VICS with Advanced filters enabled** + + - Attributes: ingress + - Items: eth, ipv4, ipv6, udp, tcp, vxlan, inner eth (full hdr masking) + - Actions: queue, mark, flag and void + - Selectors: 'is', 'spec' and 'mask'. 'last' is not supported + +More features may be added in future firmware and new versions of the VIC. +Please refer to the release notes. + Limitations ----------- @@ -169,6 +206,13 @@ Limitations - Flow director features are not supported on generation 1 Cisco VIC adapters (M81KR and P81E) +- The number of filters that can be specified with the Generic Flow API is + dependent on how many header fields are being masked. Use 'flow create' in + a loop to determine how many filters your VIC will support (not more than + 1000 for 1300 series VICs. Filter are checked for matching in the order they + were added. Since there currently is no grouping or priority support, + 'catch-all' filters should be added last. + How to build the suite? ----------------------- The build instructions for the DPDK suite should be followed. By default diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/features/enic.ini b/doc/guides/nics/features/enic.ini index 51b330fa8..f1a877043 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/features/enic.ini +++ b/doc/guides/nics/features/enic.ini @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ VLAN filter = Y CRC offload = Y VLAN offload = Y Flow director = Y +Flow API = Y L3 checksum offload = Y L4 checksum offload = Y Packet type parsing = Y diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_05.rst index 26ae57f44..73b66eb17 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_05.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_05.rst @@ -98,6 +98,12 @@ New Features Rx queues can be armed with an interrupt which will trigger on the next packet arrival. +* **Added Generic Flow API support to enic.** + + Generic flow API support for Ethernet, VLAN, IPv4, IPv6, UDP, TCP, VxLAN and + inner Ethernet pattern items with QUEUE, MARK and FLAG action for ingress + traffic. + * **Updated the sfc_efx driver.** * Generic flow API support for Ethernet, VLAN, IPv4, IPv6, UDP and TCP