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doc: add references to flow isolated mode in NICs guide

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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 <thomas@monjalon.net>
Acked-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>
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Thomas Monjalon 2019-01-30 12:20:19 +01:00
parent 610f8f441a
commit 0e0fb9431c
5 changed files with 12 additions and 3 deletions
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doc/guides/nics/mlx4.rst
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@ -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

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doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
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@ -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.

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doc/guides/nics/mvpp2.rst
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@ -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

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doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst
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@ -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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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doc/guides/prog_guide/rte_flow.rst
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@ -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