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authorLuca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>2018-11-01 11:59:50 +0000
committerLuca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>2018-11-01 12:00:19 +0000
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New upstream version 18.11-rc1upstream/18.11-rc1
Change-Id: Iaa71986dd6332e878d8f4bf493101b2bbc6313bb Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/octeontx.rst b/doc/guides/nics/octeontx.rst
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+++ b/doc/guides/nics/octeontx.rst
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
Copyright(c) 2017 Cavium, Inc
-OCTEONTX Poll Mode driver
-=========================
+OCTEON TX Poll Mode driver
+==========================
-The OCTEONTX ETHDEV PMD (**librte_pmd_octeontx**) provides poll mode ethdev
-driver support for the inbuilt network device found in the **Cavium OCTEONTX**
+The OCTEON TX ETHDEV PMD (**librte_pmd_octeontx**) provides poll mode ethdev
+driver support for the inbuilt network device found in the **Cavium OCTEON TX**
SoC family as well as their virtual functions (VF) in SR-IOV context.
More information can be found at `Cavium, Inc Official Website
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ More information can be found at `Cavium, Inc Official Website
Features
--------
-Features of the OCTEONTX Ethdev PMD are:
+Features of the OCTEON TX Ethdev PMD are:
- Packet type information
- Promiscuous mode
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ Features of the OCTEONTX Ethdev PMD are:
- Lock-free Tx queue
- HW offloaded `ethdev Rx queue` to `eventdev event queue` packet injection
-Supported OCTEONTX SoCs
------------------------
+Supported OCTEON TX SoCs
+------------------------
- CN83xx
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ Driver compilation and testing
Refer to the document :ref:`compiling and testing a PMD for a NIC <pmd_build_and_test>`
for details.
-To compile the OCTEONTX PMD for Linux arm64 gcc target, run the
+To compile the OCTEON TX PMD for Linux arm64 gcc target, run the
following ``make`` command:
.. code-block:: console
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ following ``make`` command:
Initialization
--------------
-The octeontx ethdev pmd is exposed as a vdev device which consists of a set
+The OCTEON TX ethdev pmd is exposed as a vdev device which consists of a set
of PKI and PKO PCIe VF devices. On EAL initialization,
PKI/PKO PCIe VF devices will be probed and then the vdev device can be created
from the application code, or from the EAL command line based on
@@ -156,21 +156,21 @@ Limitations
``octeontx_fpavf`` external mempool handler dependency
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-The OCTEONTX SoC family NIC has inbuilt HW assisted external mempool manager.
+The OCTEON TX SoC family NIC has inbuilt HW assisted external mempool manager.
This driver will only work with ``octeontx_fpavf`` external mempool handler
as it is the most performance effective way for packet allocation and Tx buffer
-recycling on OCTEONTX SoC platform.
+recycling on OCTEON TX SoC platform.
CRC striping
~~~~~~~~~~~~
-The OCTEONTX SoC family NICs strip the CRC for every packets coming into the
+The OCTEON TX SoC family NICs strip the CRC for every packets coming into the
host interface irrespective of the offload configuration.
Maximum packet length
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-The OCTEONTX SoC family NICs support a maximum of a 32K jumbo frame. The value
+The OCTEON TX SoC family NICs support a maximum of a 32K jumbo frame. The value
is fixed and cannot be changed. So, even when the ``rxmode.max_rx_pkt_len``
member of ``struct rte_eth_conf`` is set to a value lower than 32k, frames
up to 32k bytes can still reach the host interface.