From: Shepard Siegel <shepard.siegel@atomicrules.com>
To: ed.czeck@atomicrules.com
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Shepard Siegel <shepard.siegel@atomicrules.com>
Subject: [PATCH] doc: clarify the existing net/ark guide
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2023 09:13:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230211141357.2856973-1-shepard.siegel@atomicrules.com> (raw)
Add detail for the existing Arkville configurations FX0 and FX1.
Corrected minor errors of omission.
Signed-off-by: Shepard Siegel <shepard.siegel@atomicrules.com>
---
doc/guides/nics/ark.rst | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/ark.rst b/doc/guides/nics/ark.rst
index ba00f14e80..edaa02dc96 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/ark.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/ark.rst
@@ -52,6 +52,10 @@ board. While specific capabilities such as number of physical
hardware queue-pairs are negotiated; the driver is designed to
remain constant over a broad and extendable feature set.
+* FPGA Vendors Supported: AMD/Xilinx and Intel
+* Number of RX/TX Queue-Pairs: up to 128
+* PCIe Endpoint Technology: Gen3, Gen4, Gen5
+
Intentionally, Arkville by itself DOES NOT provide common NIC
capabilities such as offload or receive-side scaling (RSS).
These capabilities would be viewed as a gate-level "tax" on
@@ -303,6 +307,18 @@ ARK PMD supports the following Arkville RTL PCIe instances including:
* ``1d6c:101e`` - AR-ARKA-FX1 [Arkville 64B DPDK Data Mover for Agilex R-Tile]
* ``1d6c:101f`` - AR-TK242 [2x100GbE Packet Capture Device]
+Arkville RTL Core Configurations
+-------------------------------------
+
+Arkville's RTL core may be configured by the user with different
+datapath widths to balance throughput against FPGA logic area. The ARK PMD
+has introspection on the RTL core configuration and acts accordingly.
+All Arkville configurations present identical RTL user-facing AXI stream
+interfaces for both AMD/Xilinx and Intel FPGAs.
+
+* ARK-FX0 - 256-bit 32B datapath (PCIe Gen3, Gen4)
+* ARK-FX1 - 512-bit 64B datapath (PCIe Gen3, Gen4, Gen5)
+
DPDK and Arkville Firmware Versioning
-------------------------------------
@@ -334,6 +350,8 @@ Supported Features
------------------
* Dynamic ARK PMD extensions
+* Dynamic per-queue MBUF (re)sizing up to 32KB
+* SR-IOV, VF-based queue-segregation
* Multiple receive and transmit queues
* Jumbo frames up to 9K
* Hardware Statistics
--
2.25.1
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