X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Fnics%2Focteontx.rst;h=8fc53810b2f63788355904c09964f7a7b5fbc09b;hb=5a2ab34d81c2bd07539ae7cb5167498617909d42;hp=f8eaaa63fe9cda9d88260966a53b8e6f671c533a;hpb=8db1caa9622fb6dd803fb7a041b91e4ff7c166eb;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/octeontx.rst b/doc/guides/nics/octeontx.rst index f8eaaa63fe..8fc53810b2 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/octeontx.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/octeontx.rst @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ .. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause Copyright(c) 2017 Cavium, Inc -OCTEONTX Poll Mode driver -========================= +OCTEON TX Poll Mode driver +========================== -The OCTEONTX ETHDEV PMD (**librte_pmd_octeontx**) provides poll mode ethdev -driver support for the inbuilt network device found in the **Cavium OCTEONTX** +The OCTEON TX ETHDEV PMD (**librte_pmd_octeontx**) provides poll mode ethdev +driver support for the inbuilt network device found in the **Cavium OCTEON TX** SoC family as well as their virtual functions (VF) in SR-IOV context. More information can be found at `Cavium, Inc Official Website @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ More information can be found at `Cavium, Inc Official Website Features -------- -Features of the OCTEONTX Ethdev PMD are: +Features of the OCTEON TX Ethdev PMD are: - Packet type information - Promiscuous mode @@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ Features of the OCTEONTX Ethdev PMD are: - Lock-free Tx queue - HW offloaded `ethdev Rx queue` to `eventdev event queue` packet injection -Supported OCTEONTX SoCs ------------------------ +Supported OCTEON TX SoCs +------------------------ - CN83xx @@ -65,13 +65,13 @@ Driver compilation and testing Refer to the document :ref:`compiling and testing a PMD for a NIC ` for details. -To compile the OCTEONTX PMD for Linux arm64 gcc target, run the +To compile the OCTEON TX PMD for Linux arm64 gcc target, run the following ``make`` command: .. code-block:: console cd - make config T=arm64-thunderx-linuxapp-gcc install + make config T=arm64-thunderx-linux-gcc install #. Running testpmd: @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ following ``make`` command: .. code-block:: console - ./arm64-thunderx-linuxapp-gcc/app/testpmd -c 700 \ + ./arm64-thunderx-linux-gcc/app/testpmd -c 700 \ --base-virtaddr=0x100000000000 \ --mbuf-pool-ops-name="octeontx_fpavf" \ --vdev='event_octeontx' \ @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ following ``make`` command: Initialization -------------- -The octeontx ethdev pmd is exposed as a vdev device which consists of a set +The OCTEON TX ethdev pmd is exposed as a vdev device which consists of a set of PKI and PKO PCIe VF devices. On EAL initialization, PKI/PKO PCIe VF devices will be probed and then the vdev device can be created from the application code, or from the EAL command line based on @@ -156,21 +156,28 @@ Limitations ``octeontx_fpavf`` external mempool handler dependency ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -The OCTEONTX SoC family NIC has inbuilt HW assisted external mempool manager. +The OCTEON TX SoC family NIC has inbuilt HW assisted external mempool manager. This driver will only work with ``octeontx_fpavf`` external mempool handler as it is the most performance effective way for packet allocation and Tx buffer -recycling on OCTEONTX SoC platform. +recycling on OCTEON TX SoC platform. -CRC striping -~~~~~~~~~~~~ +CRC stripping +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -The OCTEONTX SoC family NICs strip the CRC for every packets coming into the +The OCTEON TX SoC family NICs strip the CRC for every packets coming into the host interface irrespective of the offload configuration. Maximum packet length ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -The OCTEONTX SoC family NICs support a maximum of a 32K jumbo frame. The value +The OCTEON TX SoC family NICs support a maximum of a 32K jumbo frame. The value is fixed and cannot be changed. So, even when the ``rxmode.max_rx_pkt_len`` member of ``struct rte_eth_conf`` is set to a value lower than 32k, frames up to 32k bytes can still reach the host interface. + +Maximum mempool size +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The maximum mempool size supplied to Rx queue setup should be less than 128K. +When running testpmd on OCTEON TX the application can limit the number of mbufs +by using the option ``--total-num-mbufs=131072``.