In the release notes and mlx5 NIC document, the support and
limitation of connection tracking are added.
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bi...@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viachesl...@nvidia.com>
---
doc/guides/nics/features/default.ini | 1 +
doc/guides/nics/features/mlx5.ini | 1 +
doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++
doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst | 2 ++
4 files changed, 18 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/features/default.ini
b/doc/guides/nics/features/default.ini
index 8046bd121e..0deb4ef547 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/features/default.ini
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/features/default.ini
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ Module EEPROM dump =
Registers dump =
LED =
Multiprocess aware =
+Connection tracking =
FreeBSD =
Linux =
Windows =
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/features/mlx5.ini
b/doc/guides/nics/features/mlx5.ini
index ddd131da16..45dbe75d07 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/features/mlx5.ini
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/features/mlx5.ini
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ Stats per queue = Y
FW version = Y
Module EEPROM dump = Y
Multiprocess aware = Y
+Connection tracking = Y
Linux = Y
Windows = P
ARMv8 = Y
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
index e7aeb779fd..5aa1100a83 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ Features
flow group.
- Flow metering, including meter policy API.
- Flow integrity offload API.
+- Connection tracking.
Limitations
-----------
@@ -433,6 +434,14 @@ Limitations
or
flow create 0 ingress pattern integrity level is 0 value mask l4_ok
value spec 0 / eth / ipv4 proto is udp / end …
+- Connection tracking:
+
+ - connection tracking (conntrack) couldn't co-exist with ASO meter, ASO age
action in a single flow rule.
+ - Flow rules insertion rate and memory consumption.
+ - software limitation:
+ - ports: a maximal number of 256.
+ - conntrack: a maximal number of 4M.
+
Statistics
----------
@@ -1695,6 +1704,11 @@ Supported hardware offloads
| | | rdma-core 35 | | rdma-core 35 |
| | | ConnectX-5 | | ConnectX-5 |
+-----------------------+-----------------+-----------------+
+ | Connection tracking | | | | DPDK 21.05 |
+ | | | N/A | | OFED 5.3 |
+ | | | | | rdma-core 35 |
+ | | | | | ConnectX-6 Dx |
+ +-----------------------+-----------------+-----------------+
.. table:: Minimal SW/HW versions for shared action offload
:name: sact
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst
b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst
index 4938c931ff..1b4b13f76c 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst
@@ -167,6 +167,8 @@ New Features
* Added support for ASO (Advanced Steering Operation) meter.
* Added support for ASO metering by PPS (packet per second).
* Added support for the monitor policy of Power Management API.
+ * Added support for connection tracking action and item as well as context
create,
+ destroy, update and query.
* **Updated NXP DPAA driver.**
--
2.26.2
