Add and update co-existence considerations for bnx2x PMD Signed-off-by: Rasesh Mody <rm...@marvell.com> --- doc/guides/nics/bnx2x.rst | 15 ++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/bnx2x.rst b/doc/guides/nics/bnx2x.rst index a7dee0c10..358ed7927 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/bnx2x.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/bnx2x.rst @@ -69,9 +69,18 @@ Co-existence considerations bnx2fi) 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, bnx2x PMD will be used to bind to SR-IOV VF device and - Linux native kernel driver (bnx2x) will be attached to SR-IOV PF. - +- Linux kernel drivers and bnx2x PMD can’t be mixed on a given BCM578xx + 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 (bnx2x) 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 NICs --------------------- -- 2.18.0
