X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Fnics%2Focteontx.rst;h=c8655bf375b7ead7127122a6460cbc5321b8b06b;hb=1736219b3c5737c943620c22121b361e35b18d0d;hp=3c19c912db08985106a2f280fb602c97fac19e41;hpb=e599bbf442f502fce0671f6b6f39f728b14259a7;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/octeontx.rst b/doc/guides/nics/octeontx.rst index 3c19c912db..c8655bf375 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/octeontx.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/octeontx.rst @@ -20,7 +20,10 @@ Features of the OCTEON TX Ethdev PMD are: - Promiscuous mode - Port hardware statistics - Jumbo frames +- Scatter-Gather IO support - Link state information +- MAC/VLAN filtering +- MTU update - SR-IOV VF - Multiple queues for TX - Lock-free Tx queue @@ -174,3 +177,10 @@ 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``.