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
 
 
 - 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
 
 
 - 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:
 
 
 Non-supported Features
 ----------------------
 
 The features not yet supported include:
 

-- Link status change interrupt
-

 - Receive queue interupts
 
 - Priority-based flow control
 - Receive queue interupts
 
 - Priority-based flow control


@@ -72,8 +103,6 @@ The features not yet supported include:
 
 - VLAN stripping
 
 
 - VLAN stripping
 

-- Scattered receive
-

 - LRO
 
 
 - LRO
 
 


@@ -87,6 +116,28 @@ required in the receive buffer.
 It should be taken into account when mbuf pool for receive is created.
 
 
 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
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 Supported NICs
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