From: John Daley Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2019 21:33:18 +0000 (-0700) Subject: doc: remove deprecated flow director from enic guide X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fd88e7401230a4eb6208c9a07540bf9d13c76691;p=dpdk.git doc: remove deprecated flow director from enic guide The legacy filter API "flow director" has been superseded by rte_flow since 2017. Remove comments in the enic guide regarding the deprecated feature. Signed-off-by: John Daley Reviewed-by: Hyong Youb Kim --- diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/enic.rst b/doc/guides/nics/enic.rst index 5681bdb549..5e80398bf3 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/enic.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/enic.rst @@ -107,24 +107,6 @@ Configuration information TCP, IPv4, TCP-IPv4, IPv6, TCP-IPv6, IPv6 Extension, TCP-IPv6 Extension. -.. _enic-flow-director: - -Flow director support ---------------------- - -Advanced filtering support was added to 1300 series VIC firmware starting -with version 2.0.13 for C-series UCS servers and version 3.1.2 for UCSM -managed blade servers. In order to enable advanced filtering the 'Advanced -filter' radio button should be enabled via CIMC or UCSM followed by a reboot -of the server. - -With advanced filters, perfect matching of all fields of IPv4, IPv6 headers -as well as TCP, UDP and SCTP L4 headers is available through flow director. -Masking of these fields for partial match is also supported. - -Without advanced filter support, the flow director is limited to IPv4 -perfect filtering of the 5-tuple with no masking of fields supported. - SR-IOV mode utilization ----------------------- @@ -229,7 +211,13 @@ the use of SR-IOV. Generic Flow API support ------------------------ -Generic Flow API is supported. The baseline support is: +Generic Flow API (also called "rte_flow" API) is supported. More advanced +capabilities are available when "Advanced Filtering" is enabled on the adapter. +Advanced filtering was added to 1300 series VIC firmware starting with version +2.0.13 for C-series UCS servers and version 3.1.2 for UCSM managed blade +servers. Advanced filtering is available on 1400 series adapters and beyond. +To enable advanced filtering, the 'Advanced filter' radio button should be +selected via CIMC or UCSM followed by a reboot of the server. - **1200 series VICs** @@ -420,12 +408,6 @@ PKT_RX_VLAN_STRIPPED mbuf flags would not be set. This mode is enabled with the -w 12:00.0,ig-vlan-rewrite=untag -- Limited flow director support on 1200 series and 1300 series Cisco VIC - adapters with old firmware. Please see :ref:`enic-flow-director`. - -- Flow director features are not supported on generation 1 Cisco VIC adapters - (M81KR and P81E) - - **SR-IOV** - KVM hypervisor support only. VMware has not been tested. @@ -512,7 +494,6 @@ Supported features - IP checksum offload - Receive side VLAN stripping - Multiple receive and transmit queues -- Flow Director ADD, UPDATE, DELETE, STATS operation support IPv4 and IPv6 - Promiscuous mode - Setting RX VLAN (supported via UCSM/CIMC only) - VLAN filtering (supported via UCSM/CIMC only)