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diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst b/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst index ae2b54a2..ccdf5ff0 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst @@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ SFC EFX PMD has support for: - IPv4/IPv6 TCP/UDP transmit checksum offload +- Inner IPv4/IPv6 TCP/UDP transmit checksum offload + - Port hardware statistics - Extended statistics (see Solarflare Server Adapter User's Guide for @@ -69,6 +71,8 @@ SFC EFX PMD has support for: - IPv4/IPv6 TCP/UDP receive checksum offload +- Inner IPv4/IPv6 TCP/UDP receive checksum offload + - Received packet type information - Receive side scaling (RSS) @@ -116,6 +120,26 @@ required in the receive buffer. It should be taken into account when mbuf pool for receive is created. +Tunnels support +--------------- + +NVGRE, VXLAN and GENEVE tunnels are supported on SFN8xxx family adapters +with full-feature firmware variant running. +**sfboot** should be used to configure NIC to run full-feature firmware variant. +See Solarflare Server Adapter User's Guide for details. + +SFN8xxx family adapters provide either inner or outer packet classes. +If adapter firmware advertises support for tunnels then the PMD +configures the hardware to report inner classes, and outer classes are +not reported in received packets. +However, for VXLAN and GENEVE tunnels the PMD does report UDP as the +outer layer 4 packet type. + +SFN8xxx family adapters report GENEVE packets as VXLAN. +If UDP ports are configured for only one tunnel type then it is safe to +treat VXLAN packet type indication as the corresponding UDP tunnel type. + + Flow API support ---------------- @@ -168,8 +192,14 @@ Supported NICs - Solarflare SFN8522 Dual Port SFP+ Server Adapter + - Solarflare SFN8522M Dual Port SFP+ Server Adapter + + - Solarflare SFN8042 Dual Port QSFP+ Server Adapter + - Solarflare SFN8542 Dual Port QSFP+ Server Adapter + - Solarflare SFN8722 Dual Port SFP+ OCP Server Adapter + - Solarflare SFN7002F Dual Port SFP+ Server Adapter - Solarflare SFN7004F Quad Port SFP+ Server Adapter |