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Date:      Tue, 29 Oct 2024 00:31:23 GMT
From:      Kevin Bowling <kbowling@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-all@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-branches@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   git: 60211fe46a4e - stable/13 - ixgbe.4: Add flow director CAVEAT
Message-ID:  <202410290031.49T0VNae087011@gitrepo.freebsd.org>

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The branch stable/13 has been updated by kbowling:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=60211fe46a4ec5e6b72cb656f487297a15a0e373

commit 60211fe46a4ec5e6b72cb656f487297a15a0e373
Author:     Diego Casati <diego.casati@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: 2024-10-26 20:34:16 +0000
Commit:     Kevin Bowling <kbowling@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2024-10-29 00:29:52 +0000

    ixgbe.4: Add flow director CAVEAT
    
    Flow-director support is not fully implemented and will cause
    errors if enabled. Mention this in the ixgbe(4) manual.
    
    PR:             202663
    Co-authored-by: Alexander Ziaee <concussious@runbox.com>
    Pull Request:   https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/1493
    
    (cherry picked from commit 20b823a59bc7419a6f93ec5097bd5ee524c20981)
---
 share/man/man4/ixgbe.4 | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/share/man/man4/ixgbe.4 b/share/man/man4/ixgbe.4
index b151d3466392..ccdf50cf9674 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/ixgbe.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/ixgbe.4
@@ -124,3 +124,11 @@ The
 .Nm
 driver was written by
 .An Intel Corporation Aq Mt freebsd@intel.com .
+.Sh CAVEATS
+Intel (R) Flow director support is not fully implemented in
+.Fx
+at this time and additional work is required
+before those features can be supported.
+.Pp
+Enabling flow director may route traffic to the wrong RX queue of the NIC,
+resulting in sub-optimal performance on the receive side.



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