From patchwork Fri Oct 30 18:55:19 2015 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Adrien Mazarguil X-Patchwork-Id: 8480 Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Delivered-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B2EE93F0; Fri, 30 Oct 2015 19:56:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail-wm0-f43.google.com (mail-wm0-f43.google.com [74.125.82.43]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AFA9926B for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2015 19:56:32 +0100 (CET) Received: by wmeg8 with SMTP id g8so18574602wme.0 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2015 11:56:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=6wind_com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to:references; bh=85kWICVwH6sJLqAL+GHVQ3vOhU0nmaH4rn6y/x9RE4E=; b=s/m/a2uVQig67bHcn+5VQf3cuXX911icwFovr9JKqSEagxKmf//Kq0gdUyz1PLQ9mj E10XuIkK5Re9FcttHUgHZex/lUu+x7+RglOX1K4wV3j40+0/SXDdEk9jMqguJah9HuA9 C/7TZDNE46YPDLUzFwlX2LZ4kYJaksjWkHB4GbdWccaXn96vNBXy6MDw1PNX34/XSjCa li/hJJtXDNS/LUyANFYqVHJALEhp/lZD7ikqUtpQKRMCRSyzWqgVZSAg5PTcJl9a3Gx2 fEOtTDObQemPJiYYDJn5A2ujHjMnCyIn6BbUqD8YJZe+0bppnPLS4wxgXuxaf06xFKVX TFiw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to :references; bh=85kWICVwH6sJLqAL+GHVQ3vOhU0nmaH4rn6y/x9RE4E=; b=EV9QR4KpwaB5j31fxjmpp9icjcNkFrglbSy7ICUV3j99bc+ADGYSBs6W6PDeyzpEGG 7u9siWxfdC2iejA80KWTS0q8rWUJXgihxg+ZeqRbsQ4wN4U8SJzFkKtG9oOoqXJ+jVDN Lilqij6+jpUhi2BmrcX7du+T27RZ2Glw057ljtKWGAm5dAG7jfMiR8RMgOKD+UyzNvSU fPs2zUo3rtM7f5zZzFyUImXKLwC75riR9vkpsRKL4KIyrw8UQLi9MTtslFqA4QolHupo /d6AGXZfIKmY2czMQJMCqlxuVRfKlbdpgI4kVZwUFPN52Q5T282E4kl3BSBbMnR/p4I3 pOxg== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmYJwyLdq6hgW9/wvYicicr7fvzN+bjWYmIriV18KeQihmx4G4fyqwbZZKOiMxTuCzYZxK0 X-Received: by 10.28.54.3 with SMTP id d3mr5062177wma.13.1446231392180; Fri, 30 Oct 2015 11:56:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 6wind.com (guy78-3-82-239-227-177.fbx.proxad.net. [82.239.227.177]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id w66sm4233796wme.11.2015.10.30.11.56.31 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 30 Oct 2015 11:56:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Adrien Mazarguil To: dev@dpdk.org Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 19:55:19 +0100 Message-Id: <1446231319-8185-17-git-send-email-adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.1.0 In-Reply-To: <1446231319-8185-1-git-send-email-adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com> References: <1444067692-29645-1-git-send-email-adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com> <1446231319-8185-1-git-send-email-adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 16/16] doc: update mlx5 documentation X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Add new features related to Mellanox OFED 3.1 support. Signed-off-by: Adrien Mazarguil --- doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst index fdb621c..2d68914 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst @@ -73,6 +73,25 @@ long as they share the same MAC address. Enabling librte_pmd_mlx5 causes DPDK applications to be linked against libibverbs. +Features +-------- + +- Multiple TX and RX queues. +- Support for scattered TX and RX frames. +- IPv4, TCPv4 and UDPv4 RSS on any number of queues. +- Several RSS hash keys, one for each flow type. +- Support for multiple MAC addresses. +- VLAN filtering. +- Promiscuous mode. + +Limitations +----------- + +- IPv6 and inner VXLAN RSS are not supported yet. +- Port statistics through software counters only. +- No allmulticast mode. +- Hardware checksum offloads are not supported yet. + Configuration ------------- @@ -171,6 +190,13 @@ DPDK and must be installed separately: Both libraries are BSD and GPL licensed. Linux kernel modules are GPL licensed. +Currently supported by DPDK: + +- Mellanox OFED **3.1**. +- Minimum firmware version: + - ConnectX-4: **12.12.0780**. + - ConnectX-4 Lx: **14.12.0780**. + Getting Mellanox OFED ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~