doc: add metering limitation in mlx5 guide
authorLi Zhang <lizh@nvidia.com>
Wed, 27 Oct 2021 09:13:58 +0000 (12:13 +0300)
committerRaslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>
Sun, 31 Oct 2021 13:27:24 +0000 (14:27 +0100)
commit160f0d11bbab08468fbddb0e5d3ee5bff63a9225
treed8802ed2f710daa4828c179b9e08e398ed1063b8
parenta5a0a43bc62ed5c735ae482dbc4d8a7af4b95eab
doc: add metering limitation in mlx5 guide

A meter policy with RSS/Queue action is not supported
when dv_xmeta_en enabled.

When dv_xmeta_en enabled in legacy creating flow,
it will split into two flows
(one set_tag with jump flow and one RSS/queue action flow).
For meter policy as termination table,
it cannot split flow and
cannot support when dv_xmeta_en enabled.

Fixes: 51ec04dc7bcf ("net/mlx5: connect meter policy to created flows")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Li Zhang <lizh@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Matan Azrad <matan@nvidia.com>
doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst