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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