Hairpin between two ports will be supported by mlx5 PMD.
The supported scenarios and limitations are listed in "mlx5.rst".
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bi...@nvidia.com>
---
doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 5 +++++
doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst | 1 +
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
index 8dc7c62..ab5cc62 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
@@ -326,6 +326,11 @@ Limitations
The last extension header item 'next header' field can specify the following
header protocol type.
+- Hairpin:
+
+ - Hairpin between two ports could only manual binding and explicit Tx flow
mode. For single port hairpin, all the combinations of auto/manual binding and
explicit/implicit Tx flow mode could be supported.
+ - Hairpin in switchdev SR-IOV mode is not supported till now.
+
Statistics
----------
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst
b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst
index f9ef4fe..1c5c2e0 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst
@@ -354,6 +354,7 @@ New Features
* Updated the supported timeout for Age action to the maximal value supported
by rte_flow API.
* Added support of Age action query.
+ * Added support of multi-ports hairpin.
* **Updated vhost sample application.**
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1.8.3.1
