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[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / vdpadevs / mlx5.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/vdpadevs/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/vdpadevs/mlx5.rst
index 9a11eef..1f2ae6f 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/vdpadevs/mlx5.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/vdpadevs/mlx5.rst
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ MLX5 vDPA driver
 ================
 
 The MLX5 vDPA (vhost data path acceleration) driver library
-(**librte_pmd_mlx5_vdpa**) provides support for **Mellanox ConnectX-6**,
+(**librte_vdpa_mlx5**) provides support for **Mellanox ConnectX-6**,
 **Mellanox ConnectX-6 Dx** and **Mellanox BlueField** families of
 10/25/40/50/100/200 Gb/s adapters as well as their virtual functions (VF) in
 SR-IOV context.
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ to get the best performances:
 - DevX allows to access firmware objects
 - Direct Rules manages flow steering at low-level hardware layer
 
-Enabling librte_pmd_mlx5_vdpa causes DPDK applications to be linked against
+Enabling librte_vdpa_mlx5 causes DPDK applications to be linked against
 libibverbs.
 
 A Mellanox mlx5 PCI device can be probed by either net/mlx5 driver or vdpa/mlx5
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ Driver options
   - 2, Completion queue scheduling will be managed by interrupts. Each CQ burst
     arms the CQ in order to get an interrupt event in the next traffic burst.
 
-  - Default mode is 0.
+  - Default mode is 1.
 
 - ``event_us`` parameter [int]
 
@@ -125,8 +125,7 @@ Driver options
   - 0, A nonzero value to set timer step in micro-seconds. The timer thread
     dynamic delay change steps according to this value. Default value is 1us.
 
-  - 1, A nonzero value to set fixed timer delay in micro-seconds. Default value
-    is 100us.
+  - 1, A value to set fixed timer delay in micro-seconds. Default value is 0us.
 
 - ``no_traffic_time`` parameter [int]
 
@@ -134,3 +133,40 @@ Driver options
   driver to no-traffic mode. In this mode the timer events are stopped and
   interrupts are configured to the device in order to notify traffic for the
   driver. Default value is 2s.
+
+- ``event_core`` parameter [int]
+
+  CPU core number to set polling thread affinity to, default to control plane
+  cpu.
+
+- ``hw_latency_mode`` parameter [int]
+
+  The completion queue moderation mode:
+
+  - 0, HW default.
+
+  - 1, Latency is counted from the first packet completion report.
+
+  - 2, Latency is counted from the last packet completion.
+
+- ``hw_max_latency_us`` parameter [int]
+
+  - 1 - 4095, The maximum time in microseconds that packet completion report
+    can be delayed.
+
+  - 0, HW default.
+
+- ``hw_max_pending_comp`` parameter [int]
+
+  - 1 - 65535, The maximum number of pending packets completions in an HW queue.
+
+  - 0, HW default.
+
+
+Error handling
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Upon potential hardware errors, mlx5 PMD try to recover, give up if failed 3
+times in 3 seconds, virtq will be put in disable state. User should check log
+to get error information, or query vdpa statistics counter to know error type
+and count report.