[dpdk-dev,v2,12/15] doc: update mlx5 guide on tunnel offloading
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Remove tunnel limitations, add new hardware tunnel offload features.
Signed-off-by: Xueming Li <xuemingl@mellanox.com>
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doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 09:34:12PM +0800, Xueming Li wrote:
> Remove tunnel limitations, add new hardware tunnel offload features.
>
> Signed-off-by: Xueming Li <xuemingl@mellanox.com>
> ---
> doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> index b1bab2ce2..c256f85f3 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> @@ -100,12 +100,12 @@ Features
> - RX interrupts.
> - Statistics query including Basic, Extended and per queue.
> - Rx HW timestamp.
> +- Tunnel types: VXLAN, L3 VXLAN, VXLAN-GPE, GRE, MPLS-in-GRE, MPLS-in-UDP.
> +- Tunnel HW offloads: packet type, inner/outer RSS, IP and UDP checksum verification.
>
> Limitations
> -----------
>
> -- Inner RSS for VXLAN frames is not supported yet.
> -- Hardware checksum RX offloads for VXLAN inner header are not supported yet.
> - For secondary process:
>
> - Forked secondary process not supported.
> --
> 2.13.3
Inner RSS may deserve its own entry in the features docs [1][2][3],
Thomas what do you think?
Regards,
[1] https://dpdk.org/doc/guides/nics/overview.html
[2] https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/tree/doc/guides/nics/features/default.ini
[3] https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/tree/doc/guides/nics/features/mlx5.ini
11/04/2018 14:32, Nélio Laranjeiro:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 09:34:12PM +0800, Xueming Li wrote:
> > -- Inner RSS for VXLAN frames is not supported yet.
> > -- Hardware checksum RX offloads for VXLAN inner header are not supported yet.
> > - For secondary process:
>
> Inner RSS may deserve its own entry in the features docs [1][2][3],
>
> Thomas what do you think?
Yes, it looks reasonnable to add inner RSS in features list.
Ferruh, do you agree?
> [1] https://dpdk.org/doc/guides/nics/overview.html
> [2] https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/tree/doc/guides/nics/features/default.ini
> [3] https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/tree/doc/guides/nics/features/mlx5.ini
@@ -100,12 +100,12 @@ Features
- RX interrupts.
- Statistics query including Basic, Extended and per queue.
- Rx HW timestamp.
+- Tunnel types: VXLAN, L3 VXLAN, VXLAN-GPE, GRE, MPLS-in-GRE, MPLS-in-UDP.
+- Tunnel HW offloads: packet type, inner/outer RSS, IP and UDP checksum verification.
Limitations
-----------
-- Inner RSS for VXLAN frames is not supported yet.
-- Hardware checksum RX offloads for VXLAN inner header are not supported yet.
- For secondary process:
- Forked secondary process not supported.