Due to hardware limitations, the relaxed mode is not supported,
otherwise, packets may mismatch.
Signed-off-by: Rongwei Liu <rongw...@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Suanming Mou <suanmi...@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net>
---
doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
index 45379960f0..857c2493bb 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
@@ -244,6 +244,8 @@ Limitations
- Matching on ICMP6 following IPv6 routing extension header,
should match ``ipv6_routing_ext_next_hdr`` instead of ICMP6.
+ IPv6 routing extension matching is not supported in flow template relaxed
+ matching mode (see ``struct
rte_flow_pattern_template_attr::relaxed_matching``).
- When using Verbs flow engine (``dv_flow_en`` = 0), flow pattern without any
specific VLAN will match for VLAN packets as well:
--
2.27.0
