net/mlx5: document E-Switch limitations with HWS
This patch adds the following limitations to the mlx5 PMD guide: - With HW Steering and E-Switch enabled, transfer proxy port must be started before any port representor. - With HW Steering and E-Switch enabled, all representors must be stopped before transfer proxy port is stopped. Documentation of mlx5 PMD's implementations of rte_eth_dev_start() and rte_eth_dev_stop() is updated accordingly: - rte_eth_dev_start() returns (-EAGAIN) when transfer proxy port cannot be started. - rte_eth_dev_stop() returns (-EBUSY) when port representor cannot be stopped. Signed-off-by: Dariusz Sosnowski <dsosnowski@nvidia.com> Acked-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>
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@ -161,6 +161,19 @@ Limitations
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- NIC ConnectX-5 and before are not supported.
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- Partial match with item template is not supported.
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- IPv6 5-tuple matching is not supported.
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- With E-Switch enabled, ports which share the E-Switch domain
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should be started and stopped in a specific order:
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- When starting ports, the transfer proxy port should be started first
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and port representors should follow.
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- When stopping ports, all of the port representors
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should be stopped before stopping the transfer proxy port.
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If ports are started/stopped in an incorrect order,
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``rte_eth_dev_start()``/``rte_eth_dev_stop()`` will return an appropriate error code:
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- ``-EAGAIN`` for ``rte_eth_dev_start()``.
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- ``-EBUSY`` for ``rte_eth_dev_stop()``.
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- When using Verbs flow engine (``dv_flow_en`` = 0), flow pattern without any
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specific VLAN will match for VLAN packets as well:
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@ -1138,6 +1138,10 @@ mlx5_hw_representor_port_allowed_start(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
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*
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* @return
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* 0 on success, a negative errno value otherwise and rte_errno is set.
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* The following error values are defined:
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*
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* - -EAGAIN: If port representor cannot be started,
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* because transfer proxy port is not started.
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*/
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int
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mlx5_dev_start(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
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@ -1394,6 +1398,13 @@ mlx5_hw_proxy_port_allowed_stop(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
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*
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* @param dev
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* Pointer to Ethernet device structure.
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*
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* @return
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* 0 on success, a negative errno value otherwise and rte_errno is set.
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* The following error values are defined:
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*
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* - -EBUSY: If transfer proxy port cannot be stopped,
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* because other port representors are still running.
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*/
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int
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mlx5_dev_stop(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
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