net/sfc: support MTU change

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

diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst b/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst
index aadd775..c482d77 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst
@@ -44,18 +44,27 @@ SFC EFX PMD has support for:
 
 - Multiple transmit and receive queues
 
-- Link state information
+- Link state information including link status change interrupt
 
 - IPv4/IPv6 TCP/UDP transmit checksum offload
 
+- Port hardware statistics
+
+- Extended statistics (see Solarflare Server Adapter User's Guide for
+  the statistics description)
+
+- Basic flow control
+
+- MTU update
+
+- Jumbo frames up to 9K
+
 
 Non-supported Features
 ----------------------
 
 The features not yet supported include:
 
-- Link status change interrupt
-
 - Receive queue interupts
 
 - Priority-based flow control
@@ -152,6 +161,19 @@ whitelist option like "-w 02:00.0,arg1=value1,...".
 Case-insensitive 1/y/yes/on or 0/n/no/off may be used to specify
 boolean parameters value.
 
+- ``perf_profile`` [auto|throughput|low-latency] (default **throughput**)
+
+  Choose hardware tunning to be optimized for either throughput or
+  low-latency.
+  **auto** allows NIC firmware to make a choice based on
+  installed licences and firmware variant configured using **sfboot**.
+
 - ``debug_init`` [bool] (default **n**)
 
   Enable extra logging during device intialization and startup.
+
+- ``mcdi_logging`` [bool] (default **n**)
+
+  Enable extra logging of the communication with the NIC's management CPU.
+  The logging is done using RTE_LOG() with INFO level and PMD type.
+  The format is consumed by the Solarflare netlogdecode cross-platform tool.