[v4] doc: update hairpin data buffer size config
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This patch updates the MLX5 PMD and release notes documentations.
Adding the guideline for hairpin data buffer size configuration.
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bingz@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Ori Kam <orika@mellanox.com>
---
v2: update the range description of hairpin data buffer size
v3: correct the minimum value of the range
v4: correct some typos and grammatical errors
---
doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 16 ++++++++++++++++
doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_05.rst | 1 +
2 files changed, 17 insertions(+)
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Hi,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bing Zhao <bingz@mellanox.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 6:11 AM
> To: john.mcnamara@intel.com; marko.kovacevic@intel.com; Slava Ovsiienko
> <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>; Ori Kam <orika@mellanox.com>; Matan
> Azrad <matan@mellanox.com>
> Cc: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>; Raslan Darawsheh
> <rasland@mellanox.com>; dev@dpdk.org; Thomas Monjalon
> <thomas@monjalon.net>
> Subject: [PATCH v4] doc: update hairpin data buffer size config
>
> This patch updates the MLX5 PMD and release notes documentations.
> Adding the guideline for hairpin data buffer size configuration.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bingz@mellanox.com>
> Acked-by: Ori Kam <orika@mellanox.com>
> ---
> v2: update the range description of hairpin data buffer size
> v3: correct the minimum value of the range
> v4: correct some typos and grammatical errors
> ---
> doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 16 ++++++++++++++++
> doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_05.rst | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> index 759d0ac..51b5d47 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> @@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ Features
> - Support for multiple rte_flow groups.
> - Per packet no-inline hint flag to disable packet data copying into Tx
> descriptors.
> - Hardware LRO.
> +- Hairpin.
>
> Limitations
> -----------
> @@ -786,6 +787,21 @@ Run-time configuration
> If this parameter is not specified, by default PMD will set
> the smallest value supported by HW.
>
> +- ``hp_buf_log_sz`` parameter [int]
> +
> + The total data buffer size of a hairpin queue (logarithmic form), in bytes.
> + PMD will set the data buffer size to 2 ** ``hp_buf_log_sz``, both for RX &
> TX.
> + The capacity of the value is specified by the firmware and the initialization
> + will get a failure if it is out of scope.
> + The range of the value is from 11 to 19 right now, and the supported frame
> + size of a single packet for hairpin is from 512B to 128KB. It might change if
> + different firmware release is being used. By using a small value, it could
> + reduce memory consumption but not work with a large frame. If the value
> is
> + too large, the memory consumption will be high and some potential
> performance
> + degradation will be introduced.
> + By default, the PMD will set this value to 16, which means that 9KB jumbo
> + frames will be supported.
> +
> .. _mlx5_firmware_config:
>
> Firmware configuration
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_05.rst
> b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_05.rst
> index 1e5304d..d43aa2e 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_05.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_05.rst
> @@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ New Features
>
> * Added support for matching on IPv4 Time To Live and IPv6 Hop Limit.
> * Added support for creating Relaxed Ordering Memory Regions.
> + * Added support for configuring Hairpin queue data buffer size.
> * Added support for jumbo frame size (9K MTU) in Multi-Packet RQ mode.
> * Optimized the memory consumption of flow.
>
> --
> 1.8.3.1
Patch rebased and applied to next-net-mlx,
Kindest regards,
Raslan Darawsheh
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ Features
- Support for multiple rte_flow groups.
- Per packet no-inline hint flag to disable packet data copying into Tx descriptors.
- Hardware LRO.
+- Hairpin.
Limitations
-----------
@@ -786,6 +787,21 @@ Run-time configuration
If this parameter is not specified, by default PMD will set
the smallest value supported by HW.
+- ``hp_buf_log_sz`` parameter [int]
+
+ The total data buffer size of a hairpin queue (logarithmic form), in bytes.
+ PMD will set the data buffer size to 2 ** ``hp_buf_log_sz``, both for RX & TX.
+ The capacity of the value is specified by the firmware and the initialization
+ will get a failure if it is out of scope.
+ The range of the value is from 11 to 19 right now, and the supported frame
+ size of a single packet for hairpin is from 512B to 128KB. It might change if
+ different firmware release is being used. By using a small value, it could
+ reduce memory consumption but not work with a large frame. If the value is
+ too large, the memory consumption will be high and some potential performance
+ degradation will be introduced.
+ By default, the PMD will set this value to 16, which means that 9KB jumbo
+ frames will be supported.
+
.. _mlx5_firmware_config:
Firmware configuration
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ New Features
* Added support for matching on IPv4 Time To Live and IPv6 Hop Limit.
* Added support for creating Relaxed Ordering Memory Regions.
+ * Added support for configuring Hairpin queue data buffer size.
* Added support for jumbo frame size (9K MTU) in Multi-Packet RQ mode.
* Optimized the memory consumption of flow.