X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Fnics%2Fbnxt.rst;h=801ec3ca5805e28f4a5e8b0751aa7e842095e2a4;hb=eb0e12c0c2991b3e12ee015db8f86355f38dcffc;hp=d9a7d8793092c612d5d993575a74512a07b9b651;hpb=1509e07f58369cb629b018d6272d714d6b6d236e;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/bnxt.rst b/doc/guides/nics/bnxt.rst index d9a7d87930..801ec3ca58 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/bnxt.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/bnxt.rst @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ BNXT Poll Mode Driver The Broadcom BNXT PMD (**librte_net_bnxt**) implements support for adapters based on Ethernet controllers and SoCs belonging to the Broadcom -BCM574XX/BCM575XX NetXtreme-E® Family of Ethernet Network Controllers, +BCM5741X/BCM575XX NetXtreme-E® Family of Ethernet Network Controllers, the Broadcom BCM588XX Stingray Family of Smart NIC Adapters, and the Broadcom StrataGX® BCM5873X Series of Communications Processors. @@ -25,30 +25,6 @@ device memory to userspace, registering interrupts, etc. VFIO is more secure than UIO, relying on IOMMU protection. UIO requires the IOMMU disabled or configured to pass-through mode. -Operating Systems supported: - -* Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.1 (Ootpa) -* Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.0 (Ootpa) -* Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.7 (Maipo) -* Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.6 (Maipo) -* Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.5 (Maipo) -* Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.4 (Maipo) -* Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.3 (Maipo) -* Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.2 (Maipo) -* CentOS Linux release 8.0 -* CentOS Linux release 7.7 -* CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 -* CentOS Linux release 7.5.1804 -* CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 -* Fedora 31 -* FreeBSD 12.1 -* Suse 15SP1 -* Ubuntu 19.04 -* Ubuntu 18.04 -* Ubuntu 16.10 -* Ubuntu 16.04 -* Ubuntu 14.04 - The BNXT PMD supports operating with: * Linux vfio-pci @@ -685,6 +661,8 @@ optimizes flow insertions and deletions. This is a tech preview feature, and is disabled by default. It can be enabled using bnxt devargs. For ex: "-a 0000:0d:00.0,host-based-truflow=1”. +This feature is currently supported on Whitney+ and Stingray devices. + Notes ----- @@ -914,6 +892,9 @@ is stopped. Note that TX (or RX) vector mode can be enabled independently from RX (or TX) vector mode. +Also vector mode is allowed when jumbo is enabled +as long as the MTU setting does not require scattered Rx. + Appendix --------