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-
Overview of Networking Drivers
==============================
portability or even documentation availability.
Most of these differences are summarized below.
-.. _table_net_pmd_features:
+More details about features can be found in :doc:`features`.
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+.. _table_net_pmd_features:
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+.. include:: overview_table.txt
-.. table:: Features availability in networking drivers
+.. Note::
- ==================== = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
- Feature a b b b c e e e i i i i i i i i i i f f m m m n n p r s v v v v x
- f n n o x 1 n n 4 4 4 4 g g x x x x m m l l p f u c i z h i i m e
- p x x n g 0 a i 0 0 0 0 b b g g g g 1 1 x x i p l a n e o r r x n
- a 2 2 d b 0 c e e e e v b b b b 0 0 4 5 p l p g d s t t n v
- c x x i e 0 . v v f e e e e k k e a t i i e i
- k v n . f f . v v . t o o t r
- e f g . . . f f . a . 3 t
- t v v v v v 2 v
- e e e e e e
- c c c c c c
- ==================== = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
- speed capabilities
- link status X X X X X X X
- link status event X X X X X
- queue status event X
- Rx interrupt X X X X
- queue start/stop X X X X X X X X X
- MTU update X X X X
- jumbo frame X X X X X X X X
- scattered Rx X X X X X X X X X
- LRO
- TSO X X X X X X
- promiscuous mode X X X X X X X X
- allmulticast mode X X X X X X X X
- unicast MAC filter X X X X
- multicast MAC filter X X X X
- RSS hash X X X X X X X X
- RSS key update X X X X X X
- RSS reta update X X X X X X
- VMDq X X
- SR-IOV X X X X X
- DCB X X
- VLAN filter X X X X X X
- ethertype filter X X
- n-tuple filter
- SYN filter
- tunnel filter X X
- flexible filter
- hash filter X X X X
- flow director X X X
- flow control X X X
- rate limitation
- traffic mirroring X X
- CRC offload X X X X X
- VLAN offload X X X X X
- QinQ offload X X
- L3 checksum offload X X X X X X
- L4 checksum offload X X X X X X
- inner L3 checksum X X X X
- inner L4 checksum X X X X
- packet type parsing X X X X X
- timesync X X
- basic stats X X X X X X X X X X
- extended stats X X X X X
- stats per queue X X X X
- EEPROM dump
- registers dump
- multiprocess aware X X X X X X
- BSD nic_uio X X X X X
- Linux UIO X X X X X X
- Linux VFIO X X X X X
- other kdrv X
- ARMv7
- ARMv8
- Power8 X X
- TILE-Gx
- x86-32 X X X X X X X X X
- x86-64 X X X X X X X X X X
- usage doc X X X X
- design doc
- perf doc
- ==================== = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
+ Features marked with "P" are partially supported. Refer to the appropriate
+ NIC guide in the following sections for details.