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

Flavio Leitner fbl at sysclose.org
Wed Oct 31 18:23:22 UTC 2018


On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 05:50:44PM +0100, Ian Stokes wrote:
> 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>

The Flow HWOF is documented as experimental in the docs, so
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl at sysclose.org>
 
> ---
>  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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-- 
Flavio



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