[PATCH] doc/mlx4: set limitation for RSS
Raslan Darawsheh
rasland at nvidia.com
Sun Nov 19 14:24:30 CET 2023
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 at 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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