Thanks.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suanming Mou <suanmi...@nvidia.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 6, 2024 5:34 PM
> To: Dariusz Sosnowski <dsosnow...@nvidia.com>; Slava Ovsiienko
> <viachesl...@nvidia.com>; Bing Zhao <bi...@nvidia.com>; Ori Kam
> <or...@nvidia.com>; Matan Azrad <ma...@nvidia.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; sta...@dpdk.org
> Subject: [PATCH v2] doc: update match with compare result item limitation
> 
> In switch mode, when ``repr_matching_en`` flag is enabled in the devarg,
> the match with compare result item is not supported to the ``ingress``
> rule as an implicit REPRESENTED_PORT need to be added to the matcher.
> That REPRESENTED_PORT item conflicts with the single item limitation for
> match with compare result item.
> 
> Fixes: cb25df7ce9d6 ("net/mlx5: support comparison matching")
> Cc: sta...@dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Suanming Mou <suanmi...@nvidia.com>

Acked-by: Bing Zhao <bi...@nvidia.com>

> ---
> 
> v2: Add `repr_matching_en`` enabled by default explanation.
> 
> ---
>  doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst index
> 7ced6ca8f9..64933a0823 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> @@ -460,6 +460,11 @@ Limitations
>    - The field type ``RTE_FLOW_FIELD_VALUE`` must be the base (``b``)
> field.
>    - The field type ``RTE_FLOW_FIELD_RANDOM`` can only be compared with
>      ``RTE_FLOW_FIELD_VALUE``.
> +  - In switch mode, when ``repr_matching_en`` flag is enabled (by
> default)
> +    in the devarg, the match with compare result item is not supported to
> +    the ``ingress`` rule as an implicit REPRESENTED_PORT need to be added
> to
> +    the matcher. That REPRESENTED_PORT item conflicts with the single
> item
> +    limitation for match with compare result item.
> 
>  - No Tx metadata go to the E-Switch steering domain for the Flow group 0.
>    The flows within group 0 and set metadata action are rejected by
> hardware.
> --
> 2.34.1

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