From: Wenzhuo Lu <wenzhuo.lu@intel.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: Wenzhuo Lu <wenzhuo.lu@intel.com>
Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce ixgbe MTU setting limitation
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 14:22:35 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1486448555-95730-1-git-send-email-wenzhuo.lu@intel.com> (raw)
Signed-off-by: Wenzhuo Lu <wenzhuo.lu@intel.com>
---
doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst | 16 ++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst b/doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst
index 3b6851b..1f7d6b3 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst
@@ -185,8 +185,11 @@ As in the case of l3fwd, set configure port_conf.rxmode.hw_ip_checksum=0 to enab
In addition, for improved performance, use -bsz "(32,32),(64,64),(32,32)" in load_balancer to avoid using the default burst size of 144.
+Limitations or Known issues
+---------------------------
+
Malicious Driver Detection not Supported
-----------------------------------------
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Intel x550 series NICs support a feature called MDD (Malicious
Driver Detection) which checks the behavior of the VF driver.
@@ -207,7 +210,7 @@ it by default.)
Statistics
-----------
+~~~~~~~~~~
The statistics of ixgbe hardware must be polled regularly in order for it to
remain consistent. Running a DPDK application without polling the statistics will
@@ -230,6 +233,15 @@ be calculated as follows:
In order to ensure valid results, it is recommended to poll every 4 minutes.
+MTU setting
+~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Although user can set MTU separately on PF and VF ports, ixgbe only supports
+one global MTU per physical port.
+So when user sets different MTUs on PF and VF ports in one physical port, the
+real MTU for all these PF and VF ports is the biggest one.
+This behavior is leveraged from kernel driver.
+
Supported Chipsets and NICs
---------------------------
--
1.9.3
next reply other threads:[~2017-02-07 6:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-07 6:22 Wenzhuo Lu [this message]
2017-02-08 16:12 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-02-09 0:40 ` Lu, Wenzhuo
2017-02-08 17:10 ` Mcnamara, John
2017-02-09 0:42 ` Lu, Wenzhuo
2017-02-09 1:27 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/2] update ixgbe doc Wenzhuo Lu
2017-02-09 1:27 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] doc: fix framework of " Wenzhuo Lu
2017-02-09 15:05 ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] " Mcnamara, John
2017-02-09 1:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] doc: announce ixgbe MTU setting limitation Wenzhuo Lu
2017-02-09 15:05 ` Mcnamara, John
2017-02-09 15:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/2] update ixgbe doc Ferruh Yigit
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