net/memif: use abstract socket address

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

diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/octeontx.rst b/doc/guides/nics/octeontx.rst
index 012a3ec..c8655bf 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/nics/octeontx.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/octeontx.rst
@@ -20,7 +20,10 @@ Features of the OCTEON TX Ethdev PMD are:
 - Promiscuous mode
 - Port hardware statistics
 - Jumbo frames
 - Promiscuous mode
 - Port hardware statistics
 - Jumbo frames

+- Scatter-Gather IO support

 - Link state information
 - Link state information

+- MAC/VLAN filtering
+- MTU update

 - SR-IOV VF
 - Multiple queues for TX
 - Lock-free Tx queue
 - SR-IOV VF
 - Multiple queues for TX
 - Lock-free Tx queue


@@ -161,8 +164,8 @@ This driver will only work with ``octeontx_fpavf`` external mempool handler
 as it is the most performance effective way for packet allocation and Tx buffer
 recycling on OCTEON TX SoC platform.
 
 as it is the most performance effective way for packet allocation and Tx buffer
 recycling on OCTEON TX SoC platform.
 

-CRC striping
-~~~~~~~~~~~~
+CRC stripping
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 
 The OCTEON TX SoC family NICs strip the CRC for every packets coming into the
 host interface irrespective of the offload configuration.
 
 The OCTEON TX SoC family NICs strip the CRC for every packets coming into the
 host interface irrespective of the offload configuration.


@@ -174,3 +177,10 @@ The OCTEON TX SoC family NICs support a maximum of a 32K jumbo frame. The value
 is fixed and cannot be changed. So, even when the ``rxmode.max_rx_pkt_len``
 member of ``struct rte_eth_conf`` is set to a value lower than 32k, frames
 up to 32k bytes can still reach the host interface.
 is fixed and cannot be changed. So, even when the ``rxmode.max_rx_pkt_len``
 member of ``struct rte_eth_conf`` is set to a value lower than 32k, frames
 up to 32k bytes can still reach the host interface.

+
+Maximum mempool size
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The maximum mempool size supplied to Rx queue setup should be less than 128K.
+When running testpmd on OCTEON TX the application can limit the number of mbufs
+by using the option ``--total-num-mbufs=131072``.