Features of the CNXK Ethdev PMD are:
- Packet type information
+- Promiscuous mode
- Jumbo frames
- SR-IOV VF
- Lock-free Tx queue
- Multiple queues for TX and RX
- Receiver Side Scaling (RSS)
+- MAC filtering
+- Generic flow API
+- Inner and Outer Checksum offload
+- Port hardware statistics
- Link state information
+- Link flow control
+- MTU update
- Scatter-Gather IO support
- Vector Poll mode driver
+- Debug utilities - Context dump and error interrupt support
+- Support Rx interrupt
Prerequisites
-------------
Refer to the document :ref:`compiling and testing a PMD for a NIC <pmd_build_and_test>`
for details.
+#. Running testpmd:
+
+ Follow instructions available in the document
+ :ref:`compiling and testing a PMD for a NIC <pmd_build_and_test>`
+ to run testpmd.
+
+ Example output:
+
+ .. code-block:: console
+
+ ./<build_dir>/app/dpdk-testpmd -c 0xc -a 0002:02:00.0 -- --portmask=0x1 --nb-cores=1 --port-topology=loop --rxq=1 --txq=1
+ EAL: Detected 4 lcore(s)
+ EAL: Detected 1 NUMA nodes
+ EAL: Multi-process socket /var/run/dpdk/rte/mp_socket
+ EAL: Selected IOVA mode 'VA'
+ EAL: No available hugepages reported in hugepages-16777216kB
+ EAL: No available hugepages reported in hugepages-2048kB
+ EAL: Probing VFIO support...
+ EAL: VFIO support initialized
+ EAL: using IOMMU type 1 (Type 1)
+ [ 2003.202721] vfio-pci 0002:02:00.0: vfio_cap_init: hiding cap 0x14@0x98
+ EAL: Probe PCI driver: net_cn10k (177d:a063) device: 0002:02:00.0 (socket 0)
+ PMD: RoC Model: cn10k
+ EAL: No legacy callbacks, legacy socket not created
+ testpmd: create a new mbuf pool <mb_pool_0>: n=155456, size=2176, socket=0
+ testpmd: preferred mempool ops selected: cn10k_mempool_ops
+ Configuring Port 0 (socket 0)
+ PMD: Port 0: Link Up - speed 25000 Mbps - full-duplex
+
+ Port 0: link state change event
+ Port 0: 96:D4:99:72:A5:BF
+ Checking link statuses...
+ Done
+ No commandline core given, start packet forwarding
+ io packet forwarding - ports=1 - cores=1 - streams=1 - NUMA support enabled, MP allocation mode: native
+ Logical Core 3 (socket 0) forwards packets on 1 streams:
+ RX P=0/Q=0 (socket 0) -> TX P=0/Q=0 (socket 0) peer=02:00:00:00:00:00
+
+ io packet forwarding packets/burst=32
+ nb forwarding cores=1 - nb forwarding ports=1
+ port 0: RX queue number: 1 Tx queue number: 1
+ Rx offloads=0x0 Tx offloads=0x10000
+ RX queue: 0
+ RX desc=4096 - RX free threshold=0
+ RX threshold registers: pthresh=0 hthresh=0 wthresh=0
+ RX Offloads=0x0
+ TX queue: 0
+ TX desc=512 - TX free threshold=0
+ TX threshold registers: pthresh=0 hthresh=0 wthresh=0
+ TX offloads=0x0 - TX RS bit threshold=0
+ Press enter to exit
+
Runtime Config Options
----------------------
Above devarg parameters are configurable per device, user needs to pass the
parameters to all the PCIe devices if application requires to configure on
all the ethdev ports.
+
+Limitations
+-----------
+
+``mempool_cnxk`` external mempool handler dependency
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The OCTEON CN9K/CN10K SoC family NIC has inbuilt HW assisted external mempool manager.
+``net_cnxk`` pmd only works with ``mempool_cnxk`` mempool handler
+as it is performance wise most effective way for packet allocation and Tx buffer
+recycling on OCTEON TX2 SoC platform.
+
+CRC stripping
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The OCTEON CN9K/CN10K SoC family NICs strip the CRC for every packet being received by
+the host interface irrespective of the offload configuration.
+
+RTE flow GRE support
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- ``RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_GRE_KEY`` works only when checksum and routing
+ bits in the GRE header are equal to 0.
+
+Debugging Options
+-----------------
+
+.. _table_cnxk_ethdev_debug_options:
+
+.. table:: cnxk ethdev debug options
+
+ +---+------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+ | # | Component | EAL log command |
+ +===+============+=======================================================+
+ | 1 | NIX | --log-level='pmd\.net.cnxk,8' |
+ +---+------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+ | 2 | NPC | --log-level='pmd\.net.cnxk\.flow,8' |
+ +---+------------+-------------------------------------------------------+