net/sfc: support deferred start of receive queues

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / nics / sfc_efx.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst b/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst
index 2cca287..b0beaf1 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst
@@ -44,18 +44,41 @@ SFC EFX PMD has support for:
 
 - Multiple transmit and receive queues
 
-- Link state information
+- Link state information including link status change interrupt
 
 - IPv4/IPv6 TCP/UDP transmit checksum offload
 
+- Port hardware statistics
+
+- Extended statistics (see Solarflare Server Adapter User's Guide for
+  the statistics description)
+
+- Basic flow control
+
+- MTU update
+
+- Jumbo frames up to 9K
+
+- Promiscuous mode
+
+- Allmulticast mode
+
+- Multicast MAC filter
+
+- IPv4/IPv6 TCP/UDP receive checksum offload
+
+- Received packet type information
+
+- Scattered Rx DMA for packet that are larger that a single Rx descriptor
+
+- Deferred receive queue start
+
 
 Non-supported Features
 ----------------------
 
 The features not yet supported include:
 
-- Link status change interrupt
-
 - Receive queue interupts
 
 - Priority-based flow control
@@ -70,8 +93,6 @@ The features not yet supported include:
 
 - VLAN stripping
 
-- Scattered receive
-
 - LRO
 
 
@@ -152,6 +173,13 @@ whitelist option like "-w 02:00.0,arg1=value1,...".
 Case-insensitive 1/y/yes/on or 0/n/no/off may be used to specify
 boolean parameters value.
 
+- ``perf_profile`` [auto|throughput|low-latency] (default **throughput**)
+
+  Choose hardware tunning to be optimized for either throughput or
+  low-latency.
+  **auto** allows NIC firmware to make a choice based on
+  installed licences and firmware variant configured using **sfboot**.
+
 - ``debug_init`` [bool] (default **n**)
 
   Enable extra logging during device intialization and startup.