[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: add note for txqflags in testpmd UG

Pablo de Lara pablo.de.lara.guarch at intel.com
Wed Apr 1 14:10:11 CEST 2015


Since txqflags is now set from the default rx/tx configuration,
depending on the PMD, it might not be 0.
Therefore, user has to overwrite it with --txqflags 0.

Signed-off-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch at intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/run_app.rst |    6 ++++++
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/run_app.rst b/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/run_app.rst
index 6cbbf40..b29c176 100644
--- a/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/run_app.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/run_app.rst
@@ -405,6 +405,12 @@ They must be separated from the EAL options, shown in the previous section, with
     Set the hexadecimal bitmask of TX queue flags, where 0 <= N <= 0x7FFFFFFF.
     The default value is 0.
 
+    Note::
+
+        When using hardware offload functions such as vlan, checksum...,
+        add txqflags=0, since depending on the PMD,
+        txqflags might be set to a non-zero value.
+
 *   --rx-queue-stats-mapping=(port,queue,mapping)[,(port,queue,mapping)]
 
     Set the RX queues statistics counters mapping 0 <= mapping <= 15.
-- 
1.7.4.1



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