net/sfc: support flow API filters

[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 cbb51de..f2e410f 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst
@@ -44,20 +44,51 @@ 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
+
+- TCP segmentation offload (TSO)
+
+- Multicast MAC filter
+
+- IPv4/IPv6 TCP/UDP receive checksum offload
+
+- Received packet type information
+
+- Receive side scaling (RSS)
+
+- RSS hash
+
+- Scattered Rx DMA for packet that are larger that a single Rx descriptor
+
+- Deferred receive and transmit queue start
+
+- Transmit VLAN insertion (if running firmware variant supports it)
+
+- Flow API
+
 
 Non-supported Features
 ----------------------
 
 The features not yet supported include:
 
-- Link status change interrupt
-
 - Receive queue interupts
 
 - Priority-based flow control
@@ -72,8 +103,6 @@ The features not yet supported include:
 
 - VLAN stripping
 
-- Scattered receive
-
 - LRO
 
 
@@ -87,6 +116,28 @@ required in the receive buffer.
 It should be taken into account when mbuf pool for receive is created.
 
 
+Flow API support
+----------------
+
+Supported attributes:
+
+- Ingress
+
+Supported pattern items:
+
+- VOID
+
+- ETH (exact match of source/destination addresses, EtherType)
+
+Supported actions:
+
+- VOID
+
+- QUEUE
+
+Validating flow rules depends on the firmware variant.
+
+
 Supported NICs
 --------------