Add and update co-existence considerations for qede PMD Signed-off-by: Rasesh Mody <rm...@marvell.com> --- doc/guides/nics/qede.rst | 21 +++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/qede.rst b/doc/guides/nics/qede.rst index c0a383381..87cf989c1 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/qede.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/qede.rst @@ -47,8 +47,25 @@ Non-supported Features Co-existence considerations --------------------------- -- QLogic FastLinQ QL4xxxx CNAs can have both NIC and Storage personalities. However, coexistence with storage protocol drivers (qedi and qedf) is not supported on the same adapter. So storage personality has to be disabled on that adapter when used in DPDK applications. -- For SR-IOV case, qede PMD will be used to bind to SR-IOV VF device and Linux native kernel driver (qede) will be attached to SR-IOV PF. + +- QLogic FastLinQ QL4xxxx CNAs can have both NIC and Storage + personalities. However, coexistence with storage protocol drivers + (qedi and qedf) is not supported on the same adapter. So storage + personality has to be disabled on that adapter when used in DPDK + applications. + +- Linux kernel drivers and qede PMD can’t be mixed on a given FastLinQ + QL4xxx adapter. This type of coexistence is unsupported. A given + adapter needs to be completely used by DPDK or Linux drivers, when + SR-IOV is not enabled. Before binging DPDK driver to one or more + devices on the adapter, please make sure to unbind Linux drivers from + all devices of the adapter. If there are multiple adapters on the + system, one or more adapter can be used by DPDK driver and other + adapters can be used by Linux drivers. + +- When SR-IOV is enabled, Linux native kernel driver (qede) can be bound + to the PFs of a given adapter and either DPDK or Linux drivers can be + bound to the VFs of the adapter. Supported QLogic Adapters ------------------------- -- 2.18.0
