[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 12/15] doc: update mlx5 guide on tunnel offloading

Nélio Laranjeiro nelio.laranjeiro at 6wind.com
Wed Apr 11 14:32:35 CEST 2018


On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 09:34:12PM +0800, Xueming Li wrote:
> Remove tunnel limitations, add new hardware tunnel offload features.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xueming Li <xuemingl at mellanox.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> index b1bab2ce2..c256f85f3 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> @@ -100,12 +100,12 @@ Features
>  - RX interrupts.
>  - Statistics query including Basic, Extended and per queue.
>  - Rx HW timestamp.
> +- Tunnel types: VXLAN, L3 VXLAN, VXLAN-GPE, GRE, MPLS-in-GRE, MPLS-in-UDP.
> +- Tunnel HW offloads: packet type, inner/outer RSS, IP and UDP checksum verification.
>  
>  Limitations
>  -----------
>  
> -- Inner RSS for VXLAN frames is not supported yet.
> -- Hardware checksum RX offloads for VXLAN inner header are not supported yet.
>  - For secondary process:
>  
>    - Forked secondary process not supported.
> -- 
> 2.13.3

Inner RSS may deserve its own entry in the features docs [1][2][3],

Thomas what do you think?

Regards,

[1] https://dpdk.org/doc/guides/nics/overview.html
[2] https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/tree/doc/guides/nics/features/default.ini
[3] https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/tree/doc/guides/nics/features/mlx5.ini

-- 
Nélio Laranjeiro
6WIND


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