[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: update mlx5 guide
Shahaf Shuler
shahafs at mellanox.com
Mon Oct 30 11:58:25 CET 2017
Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs at mellanox.com>
---
doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 17 ++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
index cdb880a4c..f82aef15c 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 +355,9 @@ 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 : v4.14 or the most recent 4.14-rc (see `Linux installation documentation`_)
+- Minimal rdma-core version: v15+ commit 0c5f5765213a ("Merge pull request #227 from yishaih/tm")
+ (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 +368,10 @@ 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 +424,7 @@ Quick Start Guide on OFED
.. code-block:: console
- ./mlnxofedinstall
+ ./mlnxofedinstall --upstream-libs --dpdk
3. Verify the firmware is the correct one:
--
2.12.0
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