New upstream version 18.11-rc2upstream/18.11-rc2

Change-Id: I43ca4edd0747b2dfc38c574ebf3c0aac17d7392c
Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>

4 files changed, 43 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/features.rst b/doc/guides/nics/features.rst
index 3fa5cb74..d3f90483 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/features.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/features.rst
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ Supports TCP Segmentation Offloading.
 
 * **[uses]       rte_eth_txconf,rte_eth_txmode**: ``offloads:DEV_TX_OFFLOAD_TCP_TSO``.
 * **[uses]       rte_eth_desc_lim**: ``nb_seg_max``, ``nb_mtu_seg_max``.
-* **[uses]       mbuf**: ``mbuf.ol_flags:PKT_TX_TCP_SEG``.
+* **[uses]       mbuf**: ``mbuf.ol_flags:`` ``PKT_TX_TCP_SEG``, ``PKT_TX_IPV4``, ``PKT_TX_IPV6``, ``PKT_TX_IP_CKSUM``.
 * **[uses]       mbuf**: ``mbuf.tso_segsz``, ``mbuf.l2_len``, ``mbuf.l3_len``, ``mbuf.l4_len``.
 * **[implements] datapath**: ``TSO functionality``.
 * **[provides]   rte_eth_dev_info**: ``tx_offload_capa,tx_queue_offload_capa:DEV_TX_OFFLOAD_TCP_TSO,DEV_TX_OFFLOAD_UDP_TSO``.
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/i40e.rst b/doc/guides/nics/i40e.rst
index ab3928a6..bfacbd11 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/i40e.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/i40e.rst
@@ -172,6 +172,13 @@ Runtime Config Options
 
   -w 84:00.0,use-latest-supported-vec=1
 
+Vector RX Pre-conditions
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+For Vector RX it is assumed that the number of descriptor rings will be a power
+of 2. With this pre-condition, the ring pointer can easily scroll back to the
+head after hitting the tail without a conditional check. In addition Vector RX
+can use this assumption to do a bit mask using ``ring_size - 1``.
+
 Driver compilation and testing
 ------------------------------
 
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
index 67696283..7af5ead8 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ Features
 - Support for scattered TX and RX frames.
 - IPv4, IPv6, TCPv4, TCPv6, UDPv4 and UDPv6 RSS on any number of queues.
 - Several RSS hash keys, one for each flow type.
+- Default RSS operation with no hash key specification.
 - Configurable RETA table.
 - Support for multiple MAC addresses.
 - VLAN filtering.
@@ -246,6 +247,24 @@ Run-time configuration
   - x86_64 with ConnectX-4, ConnectX-4 LX, ConnectX-5 and Bluefield.
   - POWER8 and ARMv8 with ConnectX-4 LX, ConnectX-5 and Bluefield.
 
+- ``rxq_cqe_pad_en`` parameter [int]
+
+  A nonzero value enables 128B padding of CQE on RX side. The size of CQE
+  is aligned with the size of a cacheline of the core. If cacheline size is
+  128B, the CQE size is configured to be 128B even though the device writes
+  only 64B data on the cacheline. This is to avoid unnecessary cache
+  invalidation by device's two consecutive writes on to one cacheline.
+  However in some architecture, it is more beneficial to update entire
+  cacheline with padding the rest 64B rather than striding because
+  read-modify-write could drop performance a lot. On the other hand,
+  writing extra data will consume more PCIe bandwidth and could also drop
+  the maximum throughput. It is recommended to empirically set this
+  parameter. Disabled by default.
+
+  Supported on:
+
+  - CPU having 128B cacheline with ConnectX-5 and Bluefield.
+
 - ``mprq_en`` parameter [int]
 
   A nonzero value enables configuring Multi-Packet Rx queues. Rx queue is
@@ -320,6 +339,20 @@ Run-time configuration
 
         - Set to 8 by default.
 
+- ``txqs_max_vec`` parameter [int]
+
+  Enable vectorized Tx only when the number of TX queues is less than or
+  equal to this value. Effective only when ``tx_vec_en`` is enabled.
+
+  On ConnectX-5:
+
+        - Set to 8 by default on ARMv8.
+        - Set to 4 by default otherwise.
+
+  On Bluefield
+
+        - Set to 16 by default.
+
 - ``txq_mpw_en`` parameter [int]
 
   A nonzero value enables multi-packet send (MPS) for ConnectX-4 Lx and
@@ -365,7 +398,7 @@ Run-time configuration
 - ``tx_vec_en`` parameter [int]
 
   A nonzero value enables Tx vector on ConnectX-5 and Bluefield NICs if the number of
-  global Tx queues on the port is lesser than MLX5_VPMD_MIN_TXQS.
+  global Tx queues on the port is less than ``txqs_max_vec``.
 
   This option cannot be used with certain offloads such as ``DEV_TX_OFFLOAD_TCP_TSO,
   DEV_TX_OFFLOAD_VXLAN_TNL_TSO, DEV_TX_OFFLOAD_GRE_TNL_TSO, DEV_TX_OFFLOAD_VLAN_INSERT``.
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mvpp2.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mvpp2.rst
index 82b9383e..b2ddeab5 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/mvpp2.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/mvpp2.rst
@@ -644,7 +644,7 @@ Node which has a parent is called a leaf whereas node without
 parent is called a non-leaf (root).
 MVPP2 PMD supports two level hierarchy where level 0 represents ports and level 1 represents tx queues of a given port.
 
-.. figure:: img/mvpp2_tm.svg
+.. figure:: img/mvpp2_tm.*
 
 Nodes hold following types of settings: