event/octeontx: probe timvf PCIe devices

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / eventdevs / octeontx.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/eventdevs/octeontx.rst b/doc/guides/eventdevs/octeontx.rst
index 4d0b22fbb3f26c6244335aff9e4fa1f1bdea4163..4ace1669af97a672c10453f5ce71e8c02c9d6a95 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/eventdevs/octeontx.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/eventdevs/octeontx.rst
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ Features of the OCTEONTX SSOVF PMD are:
 - Open system with configurable amount of outstanding events
 - HW accelerated dequeue timeout support to enable power management
 - SR-IOV VF
+- HW managed event timers support through TIMVF, with high precision and
+  time granularity of 1us.
+- Up to 64 event timer adapters.
 
 Supported OCTEONTX SoCs
 -----------------------
@@ -83,6 +86,19 @@ Example:
 
     ./your_eventdev_application --vdev="event_octeontx"
 
+
+Selftest
+--------
+
+The functionality of octeontx eventdev can be verified using this option,
+various unit and functional tests are run to verify the sanity.
+The tests are run once the vdev creation is successfully complete.
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+    --vdev="event_octeontx,self_test=1"
+
+
 Limitations
 -----------