From: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavat...@marvell.com> Update OcteonTx limitaion with max mempool size used.
Signed-off-by: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavat...@marvell.com> --- doc/guides/eventdevs/octeontx.rst | 7 +++++++ doc/guides/nics/octeontx.rst | 7 +++++++ 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/eventdevs/octeontx.rst b/doc/guides/eventdevs/octeontx.rst index ab36a36e0..587b7a427 100644 --- a/doc/guides/eventdevs/octeontx.rst +++ b/doc/guides/eventdevs/octeontx.rst @@ -139,3 +139,10 @@ follows: When timvf is used as Event timer adapter event schedule type ``RTE_SCHED_TYPE_PARALLEL`` is not supported. + +Max mempool size +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Max mempool size when using OcteonTx Eventdev (SSO) should be limited to 128K. +When running dpdk-test-eventdev on OcteonTx the application can limit the +number of mbufs by using the option ``--pool_sz 131072`` diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/octeontx.rst b/doc/guides/nics/octeontx.rst index 3c19c912d..00098a3b2 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/octeontx.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/octeontx.rst @@ -174,3 +174,10 @@ The OCTEON TX SoC family NICs support a maximum of a 32K jumbo frame. The value is fixed and cannot be changed. So, even when the ``rxmode.max_rx_pkt_len`` member of ``struct rte_eth_conf`` is set to a value lower than 32k, frames up to 32k bytes can still reach the host interface. + +Maximum mempool size +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The maximum mempool size supplied to Rx queue setup should be less than 128K. +When running testpmd on OcteonTx the application can limit the number of mbufs +by using the option ``--total-num-mbufs=131072``. -- 2.24.0
