[dpdk-dev,v5,11/11] 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/features/default.ini | 1 +
doc/guides/nics/features/mlx5.ini | 3 +++
doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 4 ++--
3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ Multicast MAC filter =
RSS hash =
RSS key update =
RSS reta update =
+Inner RSS =
VMDq =
SR-IOV =
DCB =
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ Multicast MAC filter = Y
RSS hash = Y
RSS key update = Y
RSS reta update = Y
+Inner RSS = Y
SR-IOV = Y
VLAN filter = Y
Flow director = Y
@@ -30,6 +31,8 @@ VLAN offload = Y
L3 checksum offload = Y
L4 checksum offload = Y
Timestamp offload = Y
+Inner L3 checksum = Y
+Inner L4 checksum = Y
Packet type parsing = Y
Rx descriptor status = Y
Tx descriptor status = Y
@@ -74,12 +74,12 @@ 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
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-- 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.