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[7/7] net/gve: update GVE documentation with RSS support

Message ID 20240123001645.1507779-8-joshwash@google.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
Delegated to: Ferruh Yigit
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Series net/gve: RSS Support for GVE Driver |

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Joshua Washington Jan. 23, 2024, 12:16 a.m. UTC 
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 doc/guides/nics/gve.rst | 16 ++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/gve.rst b/doc/guides/nics/gve.rst
index 1c3eaf03ef..80991e70cf 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/gve.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/gve.rst
@@ -70,6 +70,8 @@  Supported features of the GVE PMD are:
 - Link state information
 - Tx multi-segments (Scatter Tx)
 - Tx UDP/TCP/SCTP Checksum
+- RSS hash configuration
+- RSS redirection table update and query
 
 Currently, only GQI_QPL and GQI_RDA queue format are supported in PMD.
 Jumbo Frame is not supported in PMD for now.
@@ -77,10 +79,12 @@  It'll be added in a future DPDK release.
 Also, only GQI_QPL queue format is in use on GCP
 since GQI_RDA hasn't been released in production.
 
-Currently, setting MTU with value larger than 1460 is not supported.
+RSS
+^^^
 
-Currently, only "RSS hash" is force enabled
-so that the backend hardware device calculated hash values
-could be shared with applications.
-But for RSS, there is no such API to config RSS hash function or RETA table.
-So, limited RSS is supported only with default config/setting.
+GVE RSS can be enabled and configured using the standard interfaces. The driver
+does not support querying the initial RSS configuration.
+
+The RSS hash key must be exactly 40 bytes, and the redirection table must have
+128 entries. The RSS hash key must be configured before the redirection table
+can be set up.