- E-Switch mirroring and modify.
- 21844 flow priorities for ingress or egress flow groups greater than 0 and for any transfer
flow group.
+- Flow metering, including meter policy API.
+- Flow integrity offload API.
+- Connection tracking.
+- Sub-Function representors.
Limitations
-----------
- Hairpin between two ports could only manual binding and explicit Tx flow mode. For single port hairpin, all the combinations of auto/manual binding and explicit/implicit Tx flow mode could be supported.
- Hairpin in switchdev SR-IOV mode is not supported till now.
+- Meter:
+
+ - All the meter colors with drop action will be counted only by the global drop statistics.
+ - Green color is not supported with drop action.
+ - Yellow detection is not supported.
+ - Red color must be with drop action.
+ - Meter statistics are supported only for drop case.
+ - Meter yellow color detection is not supported.
+ - A meter action created with pre-defined policy must be the last action in the flow except single case where the policy actions are:
+ - green: NULL or END.
+ - yellow: NULL or END.
+ - RED: DROP / END.
+ - The only supported meter policy actions:
+ - green: QUEUE, RSS, PORT_ID, JUMP, MARK and SET_TAG.
+ - yellow: must be empty.
+ - RED: must be DROP.
+ - meter profile packet mode is supported.
+
+- Integrity:
+
+ - Integrity offload is enabled for **ConnectX-6** family.
+ - Verification bits provided by the hardware are ``l3_ok``, ``ipv4_csum_ok``, ``l4_ok``, ``l4_csum_ok``.
+ - ``level`` value 0 references outer headers.
+ - Multiple integrity items not supported in a single flow rule.
+ - Flow rule items supplied by application must explicitly specify network headers referred by integrity item.
+ For example, if integrity item mask sets ``l4_ok`` or ``l4_csum_ok`` bits, reference to L4 network header,
+ TCP or UDP, must be in the rule pattern as well::
+
+ flow create 0 ingress pattern integrity level is 0 value mask l3_ok value spec l3_ok / eth / ipv6 / end …
+ or
+ flow create 0 ingress pattern integrity level is 0 value mask l4_ok value spec 0 / eth / ipv4 proto is udp / end …
+
+- Connection tracking:
+
+ - Cannot co-exist with ASO meter, ASO age action in a single flow rule.
+ - Flow rules insertion rate and memory consumption need more optimization.
+ - 256 ports maximum.
+ - 4M connections maximum.
+
Statistics
----------
echo switchdev > /sys/class/net/<net device>/compat/devlink/mode
-SubFunction representor support
--------------------------------
-SubFunction is a portion of the PCI device, a SF netdev has its own
+Sub-Function representor
+------------------------
+
+Sub-Function is a portion of the PCI device, a SF netdev has its own
dedicated queues(txq, rxq). A SF netdev supports E-Switch representation
offload similar to existing PF and VF representors. A SF shares PCI
level resources with other SFs and/or with its parent PCI function.
for better performance. For VMs, verify that the right CPU
and NUMA node are pinned according to the above. Run::
- lstopo-no-graphics
+ lstopo-no-graphics --merge
to identify the NUMA node to which the PCIe adapter is connected.
| | | rdma-core 35 | | rdma-core 35 |
| | | ConnectX-5 | | ConnectX-5 |
+-----------------------+-----------------+-----------------+
+ | Connection tracking | | | | DPDK 21.05 |
+ | | | N/A | | OFED 5.3 |
+ | | | | | rdma-core 35 |
+ | | | | | ConnectX-6 Dx |
+ +-----------------------+-----------------+-----------------+
.. table:: Minimal SW/HW versions for shared action offload
:name: sact
| | | | | rdma-core 33 |
| | | | | ConnectX-5 |
+-----------------------+-----------------+-----------------+
- | Age | | DPDK 20.11 | | DPDK 20.11 |
- | | | OFED 5.2 | | OFED 5.2 |
- | | | rdma-core 32 | | rdma-core 32 |
- | | | ConnectX-6 Dx| | ConnectX-6 Dx |
+ | Age | | DPDK 20.11 | | DPDK 20.11 |
+ | | | OFED 5.2 | | OFED 5.2 |
+ | | | rdma-core 32 | | rdma-core 32 |
+ | | | ConnectX-6 Dx | | ConnectX-6 Dx |
+ +-----------------------+-----------------+-----------------+
+ | Count | | DPDK 21.05 | | DPDK 21.05 |
+ | | | OFED 4.6 | | OFED 4.6 |
+ | | | rdma-core 24 | | rdma-core 23 |
+ | | | ConnectX-5 | | ConnectX-5 |
+-----------------------+-----------------+-----------------+
Notes for metadata
.. code-block:: console
- testpmd> flow dump <port> <output_file>
+ To dump all flows:
+ testpmd> flow dump <port> all <output_file>
+ and dump one flow:
+ testpmd> flow dump <port> rule <rule_id> <output_file>
- call rte_flow_dev_dump api:
.. code-block:: console
- rte_flow_dev_dump(port, file, NULL);
+ rte_flow_dev_dump(port, flow, file, NULL);
#. Dump human-readable flows from raw file:
.. code-block:: console
- mlx_steering_dump.py -f <output_file>
+ mlx_steering_dump.py -f <output_file> -flowptr <flow_ptr>