doc: add limitation for ConnectX-4 with L2 in mlx5 guide
authorDmitry Kozlyuk <dkozlyuk@nvidia.com>
Wed, 30 Jun 2021 07:01:06 +0000 (10:01 +0300)
committerRaslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>
Thu, 8 Jul 2021 20:09:23 +0000 (22:09 +0200)
commite60561cc955ac01512a35ca309793e351cef3c9b
tree241cfb45d159b3656dacebc29453f937c76e6897
parent52e1ece50aaf526b900120283284834b0a59e3ce
doc: add limitation for ConnectX-4 with L2 in mlx5 guide

ConnectX-4 and ConnectX-4 Lx NICs require all L2 headers of transmitted
packets to be inlined. By default only first 18 bytes are inlined,
which is insufficient if additional encapsulation is used, like Q-in-Q.
Thus, default settings caused such traffic to be dropepd on Tx.
Document a recommendation to increase inlined data size in such cases.

Fixes: 505f1fe426d3 ("net/mlx5: add Tx devargs")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dkozlyuk@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>
doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst