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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+ Copyright(c) 2016 Intel Corporation.
Flow Bifurcation How-to Guide
=============================
Flow Bifurcation Overview
+Using Flow Bifurcation on Mellanox ConnectX
+-------------------------------------------
+
+The Mellanox devices are :ref:`natively bifurcated <bifurcated_driver>`,
+so there is no need to split into SR-IOV PF/VF
+in order to get the flow bifurcation mechanism.
+The full device is already shared with the kernel driver.
+
+The DPDK application can setup some flow steering rules,
+and let the rest go to the kernel stack.
+In order to define the filters strictly with flow rules,
+the :ref:`flow_isolated_mode` can be configured.
+
+There is no specific instructions to follow.
+The recommended reading is the :doc:`../prog_guide/rte_flow` guide.
+Below is an example of testpmd commands
+for receiving VXLAN 42 in 4 queues of the DPDK port 0,
+while all other packets go to the kernel:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+ testpmd> flow isolate 0 true
+ testpmd> flow create 0 ingress pattern eth / ipv4 / udp / vxlan vni is 42 / end \
+ actions rss queues 0 1 2 3 end / end
+
+
Using Flow Bifurcation on IXGBE in Linux
----------------------------------------
'not involved', while ``00`` or no mask means 'involved'.
* For more details of the configuration, refer to the
- `cloud filter test plan <http://dpdk.org/browse/tools/dts/tree/test_plans/cloud_filter_test_plan.rst>`_
+ `cloud filter test plan <http://git.dpdk.org/tools/dts/tree/test_plans/cloud_filter_test_plan.rst>`_