[ovs-dev] [PATCH v1] Docs: Remove HWOL DPDK limitation.

Ian Stokes ian.stokes at intel.com
Thu Oct 25 16:50:44 UTC 2018


Partial offload support was added to OVS DPDK in OVS 2.10. As such
remove the limitation that OVS DPDK does not support HWOL from the
DPDK install documentation.

Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes at intel.com>
---
 Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst b/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst
index 312b1a873..13546bb72 100644
--- a/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst
+++ b/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst
@@ -661,7 +661,6 @@ The average number of packets per output batch can be checked in PMD stats::
 Limitations
 ------------
 
-- Currently DPDK ports does not use HW offload functionality.
 - Network Interface Firmware requirements: Each release of DPDK is
   validated against a specific firmware version for a supported Network
   Interface. New firmware versions introduce bug fixes, performance
-- 
2.13.6



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