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diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/enic.rst b/doc/guides/nics/enic.rst index 26692022..c535b589 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/enic.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/enic.rst @@ -119,7 +119,26 @@ Configuration information Only one interrupt per vNIC interface should be configured in the UCS manager regardless of the number receive/transmit queues. The ENIC PMD - uses this interrupt to get information about errors in the fast path. + uses this interrupt to get information about link status and errors + in the fast path. + +.. _enic-flow-director: + +Flow director support +--------------------- + +Advanced filtering support was added to 1300 series VIC firmware starting +with version 2.0.13 for C-series UCS servers and version 3.1.2 for UCSM +managed blade servers. In order to enable advanced filtering the 'Advanced +filter' radio button should be enabled via CIMC or UCSM followed by a reboot +of the server. + +With advanced filters, perfect matching of all fields of IPv4, IPv6 headers +as well as TCP, UDP and SCTP L4 headers is available through flow director. +Masking of these feilds for partial match is also supported. + +Without advanced filter support, the flow director is limited to IPv4 +perfect filtering of the 5-tuple with no masking of fields supported. Limitations ----------- @@ -144,6 +163,12 @@ Limitations vlan_offload |= ETH_VLAN_STRIP_OFFLOAD; rte_eth_dev_set_vlan_offload(port, vlan_offload); +- Limited flow director support on 1200 series and 1300 series Cisco VIC + adapters with old firmware. Please see :ref:`enic-flow-director`. + +- Flow director features are not supported on generation 1 Cisco VIC adapters + (M81KR and P81E) + How to build the suite? ----------------------- The build instructions for the DPDK suite should be followed. By default @@ -169,9 +194,6 @@ ENIC PMD supports all recent generations of Cisco VIC adapters including: - VIC 1385 - VIC 1387 -- Flow director features are not supported on generation 1 Cisco VIC adapters - (M81KR and P81E) - Supported Operating Systems --------------------------- Any Linux distribution fulfilling the conditions described in Dependencies @@ -186,8 +208,7 @@ Supported features - IP checksum offload - Receive side VLAN stripping - Multiple receive and transmit queues -- Flow Director ADD, UPDATE, DELETE, STATS operation support for IPV4 5-TUPLE - flows +- Flow Director ADD, UPDATE, DELETE, STATS operation support IPv4 and IPv6 - Promiscuous mode - Setting RX VLAN (supported via UCSM/CIMC only) - VLAN filtering (supported via UCSM/CIMC only) |