Compiling librte_pmd_mlx4 causes DPDK to be linked against libibverbs.
-Features and limitations
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+Features
+---------
- RSS, also known as RCA, is supported. In this mode the number of
configured RX queues must be a power of two.
- Scattered packets are supported for TX and RX.
- Inner L3/L4 (IP, TCP and UDP) TX/RX checksum offloading and validation.
- Outer L3 (IP) TX/RX checksum offloading and validation for VXLAN frames.
+- Secondary process TX is supported.
-.. break
+Limitations
+-----------
- RSS hash key cannot be modified.
+- RSS RETA cannot be configured
+- RSS always includes L3 (IPv4/IPv6) and L4 (UDP/TCP). They cannot be
+ dissociated.
- Hardware counters are not implemented (they are software counters).
+- Secondary process RX is not supported
Configuration
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Currently supported by DPDK:
-- Mellanox OFED **3.0**.
-- Firmware version **2.34.5000** and higher.
+- Mellanox OFED **3.1**.
+- Firmware version **2.35.5100** and higher.
+- Supported architectures: **x86_64** and **POWER8**.
Getting Mellanox OFED
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
modprobe -a ib_uverbs mlx4_en mlx4_core mlx4_ib
+ Alternatively if MLNX_OFED is fully installed, the follwoing script can
+ be run:
+
+ .. code-block:: console
+
+ /etc/init.d/openibd restart
+
.. note::
User space I/O kernel modules (uio and igb_uio) are not used and do