[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: update mlx5 guide

Nélio Laranjeiro nelio.laranjeiro at 6wind.com
Mon Oct 30 09:22:19 CET 2017


On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 01:49:42PM +0200, Shahaf Shuler wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs at mellanox.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 18 +++++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> index cdb880a4c..0aaf80f94 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> @@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ Features
>  - Hardware checksum TX offload for VXLAN and GRE.
>  - RX interrupts.
>  - Statistics query including Basic, Extended and per queue.
> +- Rx HW timestamp.
>  
>  Limitations
>  -----------
> @@ -129,6 +130,7 @@ Limitations
>    is set to multi-packet send or Enhanced multi-packet send. Otherwise it must have
>    less than 50 segments.
>  - Count action for RTE flow is only supported in Mellanox OFED 4.2.
> +- VXLAN TSO and checksum offloads are not supported on VM.
>  
>  Configuration
>  -------------
> @@ -353,8 +355,10 @@ releases.
>  RMDA Core with Linux Kernel
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>  
> -- Minimal kernel version : 4.13-rc4 (see `Linux installation documentation`_)
> -- Minimal rdma-core version: v15 (see `RDMA Core installation documentation`_)
> +- Minimal kernel version : 4.14-rc6+ commit 25a5d23b4799 ("Merge tag 'kbuild-fixes-v4.14-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild")

According to http://www.kernel.org/, the v4.14-rc7 is out, don't it have
everything needed?

And why not simply put v4.14?

> +  (see `Linux installation documentation`_)
> +- Minimal rdma-core version: v15+ commit f967fd5e38c7 ("Merge pull request #231 from rleon/topic/fix-cplusplus")
> +  (see `RDMA Core installation documentation`_)
>  
>  .. _`Linux installation documentation`: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/plain/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst
>  .. _`RDMA Core installation documentation`: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core/master/README.md
> @@ -365,10 +369,10 @@ Mellanox OFED
>  - Mellanox OFED version: **4.2**.
>  - firmware version:
>  
> -  - ConnectX-4: **12.20.1010** and above.
> -  - ConnectX-4 Lx: **14.20.1010** and above.
> -  - ConnectX-5: **16.20.1010** and above.
> -  - ConnectX-5 Ex: **16.20.1010** and above.
> +  - ConnectX-4: **12.21.1000** and above.
> +  - ConnectX-4 Lx: **14.21.1000** and above.
> +  - ConnectX-5: **16.21.1000** and above.
> +  - ConnectX-5 Ex: **16.21.1000** and above.
>  
>  While these libraries and kernel modules are available on OpenFabrics
>  Alliance's `website <https://www.openfabrics.org/>`__ and provided by package
> @@ -421,7 +425,7 @@ Quick Start Guide on OFED
>  
>     .. code-block:: console
>  
> -        ./mlnxofedinstall
> +        ./mlnxofedinstall --upstream-libs --dpdk
>  
>  3. Verify the firmware is the correct one:
>  
> -- 
> 2.12.0

Regards,

-- 
Nélio Laranjeiro
6WIND


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