doc: document a limitation for a meter with RSS action
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A meter policy with RSS/Queue action is not supported
when dv_xmeta_en != 0.
Fixes: 51ec04d ("net/mlx5: connect meter policy to created flows")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Li Zhang <lizh@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Matan Azrad <matan@nvidia.com>
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doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
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26/10/2021 04:08, Li Zhang:
> A meter policy with RSS/Queue action is not supported
> when dv_xmeta_en != 0.
You could say why. HW limitation? driver design?
> - Policy actions of RSS for green and yellow should have the same configuration except queues.
> + - Policy with RSS/queue action is not supported when dv_xmeta_en != 0.
dv_xmeta_en should be enclosed with ticks: ``dv_xmeta_en``
!= 0 should be said in english: "is not zero" or "is enabled".
Thanks Thomas,
I will update it in the new patch.
Regards,
Li Zhang
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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
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26/10/2021 04:08, Li Zhang:
> A meter policy with RSS/Queue action is not supported when dv_xmeta_en
> != 0.
You could say why. HW limitation? driver design?
> - Policy actions of RSS for green and yellow should have the same configuration except queues.
> + - Policy with RSS/queue action is not supported when dv_xmeta_en != 0.
dv_xmeta_en should be enclosed with ticks: ``dv_xmeta_en`` != 0 should be said in english: "is not zero" or "is enabled".
@@ -435,6 +435,7 @@ Limitations
- yellow: QUEUE, RSS, PORT_ID, REPRESENTED_PORT, JUMP, DROP, MARK and SET_TAG.
- RED: must be DROP.
- Policy actions of RSS for green and yellow should have the same configuration except queues.
+ - Policy with RSS/queue action is not supported when dv_xmeta_en != 0.
- meter profile packet mode is supported.
- meter profiles of RFC2697, RFC2698 and RFC4115 are supported.