doc: update RSS flow action with best effort
authorOri Kam <orika@nvidia.com>
Mon, 10 Aug 2020 15:08:25 +0000 (15:08 +0000)
committerFerruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Fri, 18 Sep 2020 16:55:10 +0000 (18:55 +0200)
commit6abee736abe62e9555672c87e8d1659024489818
treec47c7249a637b5d872bcbb2176ed7254e3fd4a68
parent05a8e4a35d3ca9c1e5271917ad081ba78cd73fce
doc: update RSS flow action with best effort

Using the rte_flow action RSS types field,
may result in undefined outcome.

For example selecting both UDP and TCP,
selecting TCP RSS type but the pattern is targeting UDP traffic.
another option is that the PMD doesn't support all requested types.

Until now, it wasn't clear what will happen in such cases.
This commit clarify this issue by stating that the PMD
will work in the best-effort mode, and will fail
in case the requested type is not supported.

Signed-off-by: Ori Kam <orika@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
doc/guides/prog_guide/rte_flow.rst