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* [PATCH] doc/mlx4: set limitation for RSS
@ 2023-11-19 13:24 Raslan Darawsheh
  2023-11-27 11:27 ` Thomas Monjalon
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Raslan Darawsheh @ 2023-11-19 13:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: thomas; +Cc: dev

This adds a limitation explanation on RSS queue usage
for MLX4 pmd.

MLX4 pmd requires a power of two queues to do RSS
but, the user can still open more queues which can be utilized
through flow API.

Signed-off-by: Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>
---
 doc/guides/nics/mlx4.rst | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx4.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx4.rst
index c6279f51d0..f59e52a671 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx4.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx4.rst
@@ -145,6 +145,18 @@ Limitations
 - TSO (Transmit Segmentation Offload) is supported in OFED version
   4.4 and above.
 
+- RSS only works on power of two number of queues.
+- The user can open none power of two queues,  but the PMD will round down
+  to the highest power of two queues by default for RSS.
+  Other queues can be utilized through flow API.
+  example::
+      ./dpdk-testpmd -a 08:00.0 -- -i --rxq 12 --txq 12 --rss-ip
+
+  The first 8 queues will be used by default for RSS over IP.
+  The rest of the queues can be utilized through rte flow like the following::
+  flow create 0 ingress pattern eth / ipv4 / tcp / end actions rss queues 8 9 10 11 end / end
+
+
 Prerequisites
 -------------
 
-- 
2.25.1


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