[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] doc: add FEC in NIC features
Ferruh Yigit
ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Thu Jan 28 01:20:19 CET 2021
On 1/20/2021 1:43 PM, Lijun Ou wrote:
> From: "Min Hu (Connor)" <humin29 at huawei.com>
>
> Document FEC in NIC features, add information about FEC and add
> implementation related support.
>
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
>
> Signed-off-by: Min Hu (Connor) <humin29 at huawei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Lijun Ou <oulijun at huawei.com>
> ---
> doc/guides/nics/features.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++
> doc/guides/nics/features/default.ini | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/features.rst b/doc/guides/nics/features.rst
> index cf82e9d..ded5c16 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/nics/features.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/nics/features.rst
> @@ -926,6 +926,20 @@ Supports to get Rx/Tx packet burst mode information.
> * **[implements] eth_dev_ops**: ``rx_burst_mode_get``, ``tx_burst_mode_get``.
> * **[related] API**: ``rte_eth_rx_burst_mode_get()``, ``rte_eth_tx_burst_mode_get()``.
>
> +.. _nic_features_fec:
> +
> +FEC
> +---
> +
> +Supports Forward error correction. Forward error correction (FEC) is a bit error correction mode.
> +It adds error correction information to data packets at the transmit end, and uses the error correction
> +information to correct the bit errors generated during data packet transmission at the receive end. This
> +improves signal quality but also brings a delay to signals. This function can be enabled or disabled as required.
> +
> +* **[implements] eth_dev_ops**: ``fec_get_capability``, ``fec_get``, ``fec_set``.
> +* **[provides] rte_eth_fec_capa**: ``speed:ETH_SPEED_NUM_*``, ``capa:RTE_ETH_FEC_MODE_TO_CAPA()``.
> +* **[related] API**: ``rte_eth_fec_get_capability()``, ``rte_eth_fec_get()``, ``rte_eth_fec_set()``.
> +
Feature doc looks good, thanks for adding this.
Can you add another patch in this series to update .ini files for hns3 & cxgbe
to advertise FEC feature?
> .. _nic_features_other:
>
> Other dev ops not represented by a Feature
> diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/features/default.ini b/doc/guides/nics/features/default.ini
> index ee786d3..562a681 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/nics/features/default.ini
> +++ b/doc/guides/nics/features/default.ini
> @@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ Module EEPROM dump =
> Registers dump =
> LED =
> Multiprocess aware =
> +FEC =
> BSD nic_uio =
> Linux UIO =
> Linux VFIO =
>
"Linux UIO" etc renamed in this release, can you rebase on top of latest repo
please?
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