Tunnel offloading is linked to running a port with the non-obvious dv_xmeta_en=3 devargs. Hint at it for "normal" users.
Fixes: 4ec6360de37d ("net/mlx5: implement tunnel offload") Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.march...@redhat.com> --- drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow.c index d0275fdd00..51f6ecd25d 100644 --- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow.c +++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow.c @@ -11295,7 +11295,7 @@ mlx5_flow_tunnel_validate(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, if (!is_tunnel_offload_active(dev)) return rte_flow_error_set(error, ENOTSUP, RTE_FLOW_ERROR_TYPE_ACTION_CONF, NULL, - "tunnel offload was not activated"); + "tunnel offload was not activated, consider setting dv_xmeta_en=3"); if (!tunnel) return rte_flow_error_set(error, EINVAL, RTE_FLOW_ERROR_TYPE_ACTION_CONF, NULL, -- 2.40.0