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diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst b/doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst index 0c660f29..16d63902 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst @@ -68,15 +68,15 @@ Other features are supported using optional MACRO configuration. They include: * HW extend dual VLAN -To guarantee the constraint, configuration flags in dev_conf.rxmode will be checked: +To guarantee the constraint, capabilities in dev_conf.rxmode.offloads will be checked: -* hw_vlan_strip +* DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_VLAN_STRIP -* hw_vlan_extend +* DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_VLAN_EXTEND -* hw_ip_checksum +* DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_CHECKSUM -* header_split +* DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_HEADER_SPLIT * dev_conf @@ -102,20 +102,9 @@ Consequently, by default the tx_rs_thresh value is in the range 32 to 64. Feature not Supported by TX Vector PMD ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -TX vPMD only works when txq_flags is set to IXGBE_SIMPLE_FLAGS. +TX vPMD only works when offloads is set to 0 -This means that it does not support TX multi-segment, VLAN offload and TX csum offload. -The following MACROs are used for these three features: - -* ETH_TXQ_FLAGS_NOMULTSEGS - -* ETH_TXQ_FLAGS_NOVLANOFFL - -* ETH_TXQ_FLAGS_NOXSUMSCTP - -* ETH_TXQ_FLAGS_NOXSUMUDP - -* ETH_TXQ_FLAGS_NOXSUMTCP +This means that it does not support any TX offload. Application Programming Interface --------------------------------- @@ -130,13 +119,13 @@ l3fwd ~~~~~ When running l3fwd with vPMD, there is one thing to note. -In the configuration, ensure that port_conf.rxmode.hw_ip_checksum=0. +In the configuration, ensure that DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_CHECKSUM in port_conf.rxmode.offloads is NOT set. Otherwise, by default, RX vPMD is disabled. load_balancer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -As in the case of l3fwd, set configure port_conf.rxmode.hw_ip_checksum=0 to enable vPMD. +As in the case of l3fwd, to enable vPMD, do NOT set DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_CHECKSUM in port_conf.rxmode.offloads. In addition, for improved performance, use -bsz "(32,32),(64,64),(32,32)" in load_balancer to avoid using the default burst size of 144. @@ -228,6 +217,20 @@ For more details see the IPsec Security Gateway Sample Application and Security library documentation. +Virtual Function Port Representors +---------------------------------- +The IXGBE PF PMD supports the creation of VF port representors for the control +and monitoring of IXGBE virtual function devices. Each port representor +corresponds to a single virtual function of that device. Using the ``devargs`` +option ``representor`` the user can specify which virtual functions to create +port representors for on initialization of the PF PMD by passing the VF IDs of +the VFs which are required.:: + + -w DBDF,representor=[0,1,4] + +Currently hot-plugging of representor ports is not supported so all required +representors must be specified on the creation of the PF. + Supported Chipsets and NICs --------------------------- |