On 9/19/2017 11:04 AM, Matan Azrad wrote:
> 
> Hi Ferruh
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ferruh Yigit [mailto:ferruh.yi...@intel.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 12:27 PM
>> To: Matan Azrad <ma...@mellanox.com>; Gaetan Rivet
>> <gaetan.ri...@6wind.com>
>> Cc: dev@dpdk.org
>> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: update failsafe feature list
>>
>> On 9/14/2017 4:32 PM, Matan Azrad wrote:
>>> Add supported failsafe features to feature list.
>>> Remove stats per queue feature from failsafe feature list since
>>> queue_stats_mapping_set dev op has not implemented yet.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Matan Azrad <ma...@mellanox.com>
>>> ---
>>>  doc/guides/nics/features/failsafe.ini | 15 ++++++++++++++-
>>>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/features/failsafe.ini
>>> b/doc/guides/nics/features/failsafe.ini
>>> index a42e344..9f48455 100644
>>> --- a/doc/guides/nics/features/failsafe.ini
>>> +++ b/doc/guides/nics/features/failsafe.ini
>>> @@ -4,20 +4,33 @@
>>>  ; Refer to default.ini for the full list of available PMD features.
>>>  ;
>>>  [Features]
>>> +Speed capabilities   = Y
>>>  Link status          = Y
>>>  Link status event    = Y
>>>  MTU update           = Y
>>>  Jumbo frame          = Y
>>> +Scattered Rx         = Y
>>> +LRO                  = Y
>>> +TSO                  = Y
>>>  Promiscuous mode     = Y
>>>  Allmulticast mode    = Y
>>>  Unicast MAC filter   = Y
>>>  Multicast MAC filter = Y
>>>  VLAN filter          = Y
>>> +Ethertype filter     = Y
>>> +N-tuple filter       = Y
>>> +SYN filter           = Y
>>> +Tunnel filter        = Y
>>> +Flexible filter      = Y
>>> +Hash filter          = Y
>>> +Flow director        = Y
>>>  Flow control         = Y
>>>  Flow API             = Y
>>> +QinQ offload         = Y
>>> +L3 checksum offload  = Y
>>> +L4 checksum offload  = Y
>>>  Packet type parsing  = Y
>>>  Basic stats          = Y
>>> -Stats per queue      = Y
>>>  ARMv7                = Y
>>>  ARMv8                = Y
>>>  Power8               = Y
>>
>> I am not sure if claiming support for these features is correct.
>> Failsafe itself doesn't provide these features, but relies underlying 
>> hardware
>> which we don't really know what they supports or not in this stage.
>>
> 
> Don't you think that almost all failsafe features rely underlying hardware or 
> sub PMDs?

You are right, perhaps we should remove all. This is helpful to show
what device features are supported. For failsafe, is this information
useful?

> 
>> OK for dropping "Stats per queue"
>>
>>>
> 

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