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| author |   Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com> | 2017-11-08 14:15:11 +0000 |
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| committer | Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com> | 2017-11-08 14:45:54 +0000 |
| commit | 055c52583a2794da8ba1e85a48cce3832372b12f (patch) | |
| tree | 8ceb1cb78fbb46a0f341f8ee24feb3c6b5540013 /doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst | |
| parent | f239aed5e674965691846e8ce3f187dd47523689 (diff) | |
New upstream version 17.11-rc3
Change-Id: I6a5baa40612fe0c20f30b5fa773a6cbbac63a685
Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst b/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst index 7761989c..ae2b54a2 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst @@ -148,6 +148,8 @@ Supported actions: - QUEUE +- RSS + Validating flow rules depends on the firmware variant. Ethernet destinaton individual/group match @@ -243,12 +245,16 @@ boolean parameters value. features available and required by the datapath implementation. **efx** chooses libefx-based datapath which supports VLAN insertion (full-feature firmware variant only), TSO and multi-segment mbufs. + Mbuf segments may come from different mempools, and mbuf reference + counters are treated responsibly. **ef10** chooses EF10 (SFN7xxx, SFN8xxx) native datapath which is more efficient than libefx-based but has no VLAN insertion and TSO support yet. + Mbuf segments may come from different mempools, and mbuf reference + counters are treated responsibly. **ef10_simple** chooses EF10 (SFN7xxx, SFN8xxx) native datapath which is even more faster then **ef10** but does not support multi-segment - mbufs. + mbufs, disallows multiple mempools and neglects mbuf reference counters. - ``perf_profile`` [auto|throughput|low-latency] (default **throughput**) |