-----------
- Inner RSS for VXLAN frames is not supported yet.
-- Port statistics through software counters only. Flow statistics are
- supported by hardware counters.
- Hardware checksum RX offloads for VXLAN inner header are not supported yet.
-- Forked secondary process not supported.
+- For secondary process:
+
+ - Forked secondary process not supported.
+ - All mempools must be initialized before rte_eth_dev_start().
+
- Flow pattern without any specific vlan will match for vlan packets as well:
When VLAN spec is not specified in the pattern, the matching rule will be created with VLAN as a wild card.
- A multi segment packet must have less than 6 segments in case the Tx burst function
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.
+- Count action for RTE flow is **only supported in Mellanox OFED**.
- Flows with a VXLAN Network Identifier equal (or ends to be equal)
to 0 are not supported.
- VXLAN TSO and checksum offloads are not supported on VM.
+Statistics
+----------
+
+MLX5 supports various of methods to report statistics:
+
+Port statistics can be queried using ``rte_eth_stats_get()``. The port statistics are through SW only and counts the number of packets received or sent successfully by the PMD.
+
+Extended statistics can be queried using ``rte_eth_xstats_get()``. The extended statistics expose a wider set of counters counted by the device. The extended port statistics counts the number of packets received or sent successfully by the port. As Mellanox NICs are using the :ref:`Bifurcated Linux Driver <linux_gsg_linux_drivers>` those counters counts also packet received or sent by the Linux kernel. The counters with ``_phy`` suffix counts the total events on the physical port, therefore not valid for VF.
+
+Finally per-flow statistics can by queried using ``rte_flow_query`` when attaching a count action for specific flow. The flow counter counts the number of packets received successfully by the port and match the specific flow.
+
Configuration
-------------
Toggle compilation of librte_pmd_mlx5 itself.
+- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_MLX5_DLOPEN_DEPS`` (default **n**)
+
+ Build PMD with additional code to make it loadable without hard
+ dependencies on **libibverbs** nor **libmlx5**, which may not be installed
+ on the target system.
+
+ In this mode, their presence is still required for it to run properly,
+ however their absence won't prevent a DPDK application from starting (with
+ ``CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_SHARED_LIB`` disabled) and they won't show up as
+ missing with ``ldd(1)``.
+
+ It works by moving these dependencies to a purpose-built rdma-core "glue"
+ plug-in, which must either be installed in ``CONFIG_RTE_EAL_PMD_PATH`` if
+ set, or in a standard location for the dynamic linker (e.g. ``/lib``) if
+ left to the default empty string (``""``).
+
+ This option has no performance impact.
+
- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_MLX5_DEBUG`` (default **n**)
Toggle debugging code and stricter compilation flags. Enabling this option
Environment variables
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+- ``MLX5_GLUE_PATH``
+
+ A list of directories in which to search for the rdma-core "glue" plug-in,
+ separated by colons or semi-colons.
+
+ Only matters when compiled with ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_MLX5_DLOPEN_DEPS``
+ enabled and most useful when ``CONFIG_RTE_EAL_PMD_PATH`` is also set,
+ since ``LD_LIBRARY_PATH`` has no effect in this case.
+
- ``MLX5_PMD_ENABLE_PADDING``
Enables HW packet padding in PCI bus transactions.
Enhanced MPS supports hybrid mode - mixing inlined packets and pointers
in the same descriptor.
- This option cannot be used in conjunction with ``tso`` below. When ``tso``
- is set, ``txq_mpw_en`` is disabled.
+ This option cannot be used with certain offloads such as ``DEV_TX_OFFLOAD_TCP_TSO,
+ DEV_TX_OFFLOAD_VXLAN_TNL_TSO, DEV_TX_OFFLOAD_GRE_TNL_TSO, DEV_TX_OFFLOAD_VLAN_INSERT``.
+ When those offloads are requested the MPS send function will not be used.
It is currently only supported on the ConnectX-4 Lx and ConnectX-5
families of adapters. Enabled by default.
Effective only when Enhanced MPS is supported. The default value is 256.
-- ``tso`` parameter [int]
-
- A nonzero value enables hardware TSO.
- When hardware TSO is enabled, packets marked with TCP segmentation
- offload will be divided into segments by the hardware. Disabled by default.
-
- ``tx_vec_en`` parameter [int]
A nonzero value enables Tx vector on ConnectX-5 only NIC if the number of
global Tx queues on the port is lesser than MLX5_VPMD_MIN_TXQS.
+ This option cannot be used with certain offloads such as ``DEV_TX_OFFLOAD_TCP_TSO,
+ DEV_TX_OFFLOAD_VXLAN_TNL_TSO, DEV_TX_OFFLOAD_GRE_TNL_TSO, DEV_TX_OFFLOAD_VLAN_INSERT``.
+ When those offloads are requested the MPS send function will not be used.
+
Enabled by default on ConnectX-5.
- ``rx_vec_en`` parameter [int]
Mellanox OFED
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-- Mellanox OFED version: **4.2**.
+- Mellanox OFED version: **4.2, 4.3**.
- firmware version:
- ConnectX-4: **12.21.1000** and above.
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