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6 | 6 | NVIDIA MLX5 vDPA Driver |
7 | 7 | ======================= |
8 | 8 |
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9 | | -The mlx5 vDPA (vhost data path acceleration) driver library |
10 | | -(**librte_vdpa_mlx5**) provides support for **NVIDIA ConnectX-6**, |
11 | | -**NVIDIA ConnectX-6 Dx**, **NVIDIA ConnectX-6 Lx**, **NVIDIA ConnectX7**, |
12 | | -**NVIDIA BlueField**, **NVIDIA BlueField-2** and **NVIDIA BlueField-3** families |
13 | | -of 10/25/40/50/100/200 Gb/s adapters as well as their virtual functions (VF) in |
14 | | -SR-IOV context. |
15 | | - |
16 | | -.. note:: |
17 | | - |
18 | | - This driver is enabled automatically when using "meson" build system which |
19 | | - will detect dependencies. |
| 9 | +The mlx5 vDPA (vhost data path acceleration) driver (``librte_vdpa_mlx5``) |
| 10 | +provides support for NVIDIA NIC and DPU device families. |
20 | 11 |
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21 | 12 | See :doc:`../../platform/mlx5` guide for design details, |
22 | 13 | and which PMDs can be combined with vDPA PMD. |
23 | 14 |
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| 15 | + |
24 | 16 | Supported NICs |
25 | 17 | -------------- |
26 | 18 |
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27 | 19 | * NVIDIA\ |reg| ConnectX\ |reg|-6 |
28 | 20 | * NVIDIA\ |reg| ConnectX\ |reg|-6 Lx |
29 | 21 | * NVIDIA\ |reg| ConnectX\ |reg|-6 Dx |
30 | 22 | * NVIDIA\ |reg| ConnectX\ |reg|-7 |
31 | | -* NVIDIA\ |reg| BlueField |
32 | | -* NVIDIA\ |reg| BlueField |reg|-2 |
33 | | -* NVIDIA\ |reg| BlueField\ |reg|-3 |
| 23 | +* NVIDIA\ |reg| BlueField\ |reg|-2 DPU |
| 24 | +* NVIDIA\ |reg| BlueField\ |reg|-3 DPU/SuperNIC |
| 25 | + |
34 | 26 |
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35 | 27 | Prerequisites |
36 | 28 | ------------- |
37 | 29 |
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38 | 30 | - NVIDIA MLNX_OFED version: **5.0** |
39 | | - See :ref:`mlx5 common prerequisites <mlx5_linux_prerequisites>` for more details. |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | +See :ref:`mlx5 common prerequisites <mlx5_linux_prerequisites>` for more details. |
| 33 | + |
40 | 34 |
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41 | 35 | Run-time configuration |
42 | | -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| 36 | +---------------------- |
43 | 37 |
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44 | 38 | Driver options |
45 | | -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| 39 | +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
46 | 40 |
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47 | 41 | Please refer to :ref:`mlx5 common options <mlx5_common_driver_options>` |
48 | 42 | for an additional list of options shared with other mlx5 drivers. |
@@ -136,16 +130,18 @@ for an additional list of options shared with other mlx5 drivers. |
136 | 130 |
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137 | 131 | - 0, default value, no pre-create virtq resource. |
138 | 132 |
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| 133 | + |
139 | 134 | Error handling |
140 | | -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| 135 | +-------------- |
141 | 136 |
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142 | 137 | Upon potential hardware errors, mlx5 PMD try to recover, give up if failed 3 |
143 | 138 | times in 3 seconds, virtq will be put in disable state. User should check log |
144 | 139 | to get error information, or query vdpa statistics counter to know error type |
145 | 140 | and count report. |
146 | 141 |
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| 142 | + |
147 | 143 | Statistics |
148 | | -^^^^^^^^^^ |
| 144 | +---------- |
149 | 145 |
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150 | 146 | The device statistics counter persists in reconfiguration until the device gets |
151 | 147 | removed. User can reset counters by calling function rte_vdpa_reset_stats(). |
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