X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Fnics%2Fsfc_efx.rst;h=67d9b054d56bee61c92090a68f6131a7748d1dbc;hb=e359e3b796b1fc15a600d87a1e380c71f77e8daa;hp=028c92cc3f10b16de7ea553bffd63acd6d0445d6;hpb=0e0fb9431cf351852f6c0f8ae9f46993c8461da5;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst b/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst index 028c92cc3f..67d9b054d5 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst @@ -1,31 +1,10 @@ -.. BSD LICENSE - Copyright (c) 2016 Solarflare Communications Inc. +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause + Copyright (c) 2016-2019 Solarflare Communications Inc. All rights reserved. This software was jointly developed between OKTET Labs (under contract for Solarflare) and Solarflare Communications, Inc. - Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without - modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: - - 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, - this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. - 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, - this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation - and/or other materials provided with the distribution. - - THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" - AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, - THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR - PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR - CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, - EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, - PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; - OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, - WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR - OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, - EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. - Solarflare libefx-based Poll Mode Driver ======================================== @@ -66,7 +45,7 @@ SFC EFX PMD has support for: - Allmulticast mode -- TCP segmentation offload (TSO) +- TCP segmentation offload (TSO) including VXLAN and GENEVE encapsulated - Multicast MAC filter @@ -82,6 +61,8 @@ SFC EFX PMD has support for: - Scattered Rx DMA for packet that are larger that a single Rx descriptor +- Receive queue interrupts + - Deferred receive and transmit queue start - Transmit VLAN insertion (if running firmware variant supports it) @@ -96,8 +77,6 @@ Non-supported Features The features not yet supported include: -- Receive queue interupts - - Priority-based flow control - Configurable RX CRC stripping (always stripped) @@ -209,12 +188,12 @@ Validating flow rules depends on the firmware variant. The :ref:`flow_isolated_mode` is supported. -Ethernet destinaton individual/group match -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Ethernet destination individual/group match +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ethernet item supports I/G matching, if only the corresponding bit is set -in the mask of destination address. If destinaton address in the spec is -multicast, it matches all multicast (and broadcast) packets, oherwise it +in the mask of destination address. If destination address in the spec is +multicast, it matches all multicast (and broadcast) packets, otherwise it matches unicast packets that are not filtered by other flow rules. Exceptions to flow rules @@ -348,10 +327,10 @@ boolean parameters value. - ``perf_profile`` [auto|throughput|low-latency] (default **throughput**) - Choose hardware tunning to be optimized for either throughput or + Choose hardware tuning 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**. + installed licenses and firmware variant configured using **sfboot**. - ``stats_update_period_ms`` [long] (default **1000**)