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| author | Diego Casati <diego.casati@gmail.com> | 2024-10-26 20:34:16 +0000 |
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| committer | Kevin Bowling <kbowling@FreeBSD.org> | 2024-10-26 20:37:06 +0000 |
| commit | 20b823a59bc7419a6f93ec5097bd5ee524c20981 (patch) | |
| tree | 7ef57f39a967bf4a48e3de59519618c26f19636b | |
| parent | 3e55170e0fa2695f6d662e3ab67201138a6f8698 (diff) | |
| download | src-20b823a59bc7.tar.gz src-20b823a59bc7.zip | |
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
MFC after: 3 days
Co-authored-by: Alexander Ziaee <concussious@runbox.com>
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/1493
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/ixgbe.4 | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
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. |