Features of the OCTEON TX2 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/VLAN filtering
+- Multicast MAC filtering
+- Generic flow API
+- Inner and Outer Checksum offload
+- VLAN/QinQ stripping and insertion
+- 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
+- IEEE1588 timestamping
+- HW offloaded `ethdev Rx queue` to `eventdev event queue` packet injection
+- Support Rx interrupt
Prerequisites
-------------
Toggle compilation of the ``librte_pmd_octeontx2`` driver.
+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 TX2 PMD for Linux arm64 gcc,
+use arm64-octeontx2-linux-gcc as target.
+
+#. 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/app/testpmd -c 0x300 -w 0002:02:00.0 -- --portmask=0x1 --nb-cores=1 --port-topology=loop --rxq=1 --txq=1
+ EAL: Detected 24 lcore(s)
+ EAL: Detected 1 NUMA nodes
+ EAL: Multi-process socket /var/run/dpdk/rte/mp_socket
+ EAL: No available hugepages reported in hugepages-2048kB
+ EAL: Probing VFIO support...
+ EAL: VFIO support initialized
+ EAL: PCI device 0002:02:00.0 on NUMA socket 0
+ EAL: probe driver: 177d:a063 net_octeontx2
+ EAL: using IOMMU type 1 (Type 1)
+ testpmd: create a new mbuf pool <mbuf_pool_socket_0>: n=267456, size=2176, socket=0
+ testpmd: preferred mempool ops selected: octeontx2_npa
+ Configuring Port 0 (socket 0)
+ PMD: Port 0: Link Up - speed 40000 Mbps - full-duplex
+
+ Port 0: link state change event
+ Port 0: 36:10:66:88:7A:57
+ 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 9 (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=512 - 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=0x10000 - TX RS bit threshold=0
+ Press enter to exit
+
Runtime Config Options
----------------------
With the above configuration, each send queue's decscriptor buffer count is
limited to a maximum of 64 buffers.
+- ``switch header enable`` (default ``none``)
+
+ A port can be configured to a specific switch header type by using
+ ``switch_header`` ``devargs`` parameter.
+
+ For example::
+
+ -w 0002:02:00.0,switch_header="higig2"
+
+ With the above configuration, higig2 will be enabled on that port and the
+ traffic on this port should be higig2 traffic only. Supported switch header
+ types are "higig2" and "dsa".
.. note::
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_octeontx2`` external mempool handler dependency
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The OCTEON TX2 SoC family NIC has inbuilt HW assisted external mempool manager.
+``net_octeontx2`` pmd only works with ``mempool_octeontx2`` 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 TX2 SoC family NICs strip the CRC for every packet being received by
+the host interface irrespective of the offload configuration.
+
+Multicast MAC filtering
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+``net_octeontx2`` pmd supports multicast mac filtering feature only on physical
+function devices.
+
+Debugging Options
+-----------------
+
+.. _table_octeontx2_ethdev_debug_options:
+
+.. table:: OCTEON TX2 ethdev debug options
+
+ +---+------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+ | # | Component | EAL log command |
+ +===+============+=======================================================+
+ | 1 | NIX | --log-level='pmd\.net.octeontx2,8' |
+ +---+------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+ | 2 | NPC | --log-level='pmd\.net.octeontx2\.flow,8' |
+ +---+------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+
+RTE Flow Support
+----------------
+
+The OCTEON TX2 SoC family NIC has support for the following patterns and
+actions.
+
+Patterns:
+
+.. _table_octeontx2_supported_flow_item_types:
+
+.. table:: Item types
+
+ +----+--------------------------------+
+ | # | Pattern Type |
+ +====+================================+
+ | 1 | RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_ETH |
+ +----+--------------------------------+
+ | 2 | RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_VLAN |
+ +----+--------------------------------+
+ | 3 | RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_E_TAG |
+ +----+--------------------------------+
+ | 4 | RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_IPV4 |
+ +----+--------------------------------+
+ | 5 | RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_IPV6 |
+ +----+--------------------------------+
+ | 6 | RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_ARP_ETH_IPV4|
+ +----+--------------------------------+
+ | 7 | RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_MPLS |
+ +----+--------------------------------+
+ | 8 | RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_ICMP |
+ +----+--------------------------------+
+ | 9 | RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_UDP |
+ +----+--------------------------------+
+ | 10 | RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_TCP |
+ +----+--------------------------------+
+ | 11 | RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_SCTP |
+ +----+--------------------------------+
+ | 12 | RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_ESP |
+ +----+--------------------------------+
+ | 13 | RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_GRE |
+ +----+--------------------------------+
+ | 14 | RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_NVGRE |
+ +----+--------------------------------+
+ | 15 | RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_VXLAN |
+ +----+--------------------------------+
+ | 16 | RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_GTPC |
+ +----+--------------------------------+
+ | 17 | RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_GTPU |
+ +----+--------------------------------+
+ | 18 | RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_GENEVE |
+ +----+--------------------------------+
+ | 19 | RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_VXLAN_GPE |
+ +----+--------------------------------+
+ | 20 | RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_IPV6_EXT |
+ +----+--------------------------------+
+ | 21 | RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_VOID |
+ +----+--------------------------------+
+ | 22 | RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_ANY |
+ +----+--------------------------------+
+ | 23 | RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_GRE_KEY |
+ +----+--------------------------------+
+ | 24 | RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_HIGIG2 |
+ +----+--------------------------------+
+
+.. note::
+
+ ``RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_GRE_KEY`` works only when checksum and routing
+ bits in the GRE header are equal to 0.
+
+Actions:
+
+.. _table_octeontx2_supported_ingress_action_types:
+
+.. table:: Ingress action types
+
+ +----+--------------------------------+
+ | # | Action Type |
+ +====+================================+
+ | 1 | RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_VOID |
+ +----+--------------------------------+
+ | 2 | RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_MARK |
+ +----+--------------------------------+
+ | 3 | RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_FLAG |
+ +----+--------------------------------+
+ | 4 | RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_COUNT |
+ +----+--------------------------------+
+ | 5 | RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_DROP |
+ +----+--------------------------------+
+ | 6 | RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_QUEUE |
+ +----+--------------------------------+
+ | 7 | RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_RSS |
+ +----+--------------------------------+
+ | 8 | RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_SECURITY |
+ +----+--------------------------------+
+ | 9 | RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_PF |
+ +----+--------------------------------+
+ | 10 | RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_VF |
+ +----+--------------------------------+
+
+.. _table_octeontx2_supported_egress_action_types:
+
+.. table:: Egress action types
+
+ +----+--------------------------------+
+ | # | Action Type |
+ +====+================================+
+ | 1 | RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_COUNT |
+ +----+--------------------------------+
+ | 2 | RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_DROP |
+ +----+--------------------------------+