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

diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/octeontx.rst b/doc/guides/nics/octeontx.rst
index f8111d3..b1a868b 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/nics/octeontx.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/octeontx.rst
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 OCTEON TX Poll Mode driver
 ==========================
 
-The OCTEON TX ETHDEV PMD (**librte_pmd_octeontx**) provides poll mode ethdev
+The OCTEON TX ETHDEV PMD (**librte_net_octeontx**) provides poll mode ethdev
 driver support for the inbuilt network device found in the **Cavium OCTEON TX**
 SoC family as well as their virtual functions (VF) in SR-IOV context.
 
@@ -20,7 +20,10 @@ Features of the OCTEON TX Ethdev PMD are:
 - Promiscuous mode
 - Port hardware statistics
 - Jumbo frames
+- Scatter-Gather IO support
 - Link state information
+- MAC/VLAN filtering
+- MTU update
 - SR-IOV VF
 - Multiple queues for TX
 - Lock-free Tx queue
@@ -49,15 +52,6 @@ See :doc:`../platform/octeontx` for setup information.
 Pre-Installation Configuration
 ------------------------------
 
-Config File Options
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-The following options can be modified in the ``config`` file.
-Please note that enabling debugging options may affect system performance.
-
-- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_OCTEONTX_PMD`` (default ``y``)
-
-  Toggle compilation of the ``librte_pmd_octeontx`` driver.
 
 Driver compilation and testing
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -65,14 +59,6 @@ Driver compilation and testing
 Refer to the document :ref:`compiling and testing a PMD for a NIC <pmd_build_and_test>`
 for details.
 
-To compile the OCTEON TX PMD for Linux arm64 gcc target, run the
-following ``make`` command:
-
-.. code-block:: console
-
-   cd <DPDK-source-directory>
-   make config T=arm64-thunderx-linuxapp-gcc install
-
 #. Running testpmd:
 
    Follow instructions available in the document
@@ -83,7 +69,7 @@ following ``make`` command:
 
    .. code-block:: console
 
-      ./arm64-thunderx-linuxapp-gcc/app/testpmd -c 700 \
+      ./<build_dir>/app/dpdk-testpmd -c 700 \
                 --base-virtaddr=0x100000000000 \
                 --mbuf-pool-ops-name="octeontx_fpavf" \
                 --vdev='event_octeontx' \
@@ -161,8 +147,8 @@ 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.
 
-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.
@@ -174,3 +160,10 @@ 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.
+
+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``.