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The ice PMD (librte_pmd_ice) provides poll mode driver support for
-10/25 Gbps IntelĀ® Ethernet 810 Series Network Adapters based on
+10/25/50/100 Gbps IntelĀ® Ethernet 810 Series Network Adapters based on
the Intel Ethernet Controller E810.
- To get better performance on Intel platforms, please follow the "How to get best performance with NICs on Intel platforms"
section of the :ref:`Getting Started Guide for Linux <linux_gsg>`.
+Recommended Matching List
+-------------------------
+
+It is highly recommended to upgrade the ice kernel driver and firmware and
+DDP packages to avoid the compatibility issues with ice PMD. Here is the
+suggested matching list.
+
+ +----------------------+-----------------------+------------------+----------------+-------------------+
+ | DPDK version | Kernel driver version | Firmware version | DDP OS Package | DDP COMMS Package |
+ +======================+=======================+==================+================+===================+
+ | 19.11 | 0.12.25 | 1.1.16.39 | 1.3.4 | 1.3.10 |
+ +----------------------+-----------------------+------------------+----------------+-------------------+
+ | 19.08 (experimental) | 0.10.1 | 1.1.12.7 | 1.2.0 | N/A |
+ +----------------------+-----------------------+------------------+----------------+-------------------+
+ | 19.05 (experimental) | 0.9.4 | 1.1.10.16 | 1.1.0 | N/A |
+ +----------------------+-----------------------+------------------+----------------+-------------------+
Pre-Installation Configuration
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Toggle display of generic debugging messages.
-- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_ICE_RX_ALLOW_BULK_ALLOC`` (default ``y``)
-
- Toggle bulk allocation for RX.
-
- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_ICE_16BYTE_RX_DESC`` (default ``n``)
Toggle to use a 16-byte RX descriptor, by default the RX descriptor is 32 byte.
-w 80:00.0,pipeline-mode-support=1
+- ``Flow Mark Support`` (default ``0``)
+
+ This is a hint to the driver to select the data path that supports flow mark extraction
+ by default.
+ NOTE: This is an experimental devarg, it will be removed when any of below conditions
+ is ready.
+ 1) all data paths support flow mark (currently vPMD does not)
+ 2) a new offload like RTE_DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_FLOW_MARK be introduced as a standard way to hint.
+ Example::
+
+ -w 80:00.0,flow-mark-support=1
+
- ``Protocol extraction for per queue``
Configure the RX queues to do protocol extraction into mbuf for protocol