[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/5] doc: add FEC in NIC features
From: Lijun Ou <hidden>
Date: 2021-01-28 12:44:26
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
From: "Min Hu (Connor)" <redacted>
Document FEC in NIC features, add information about FEC and add
implementation related support.
Fixes: b7ccfb09da95 ("ethdev: introduce FEC API")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Min Hu (Connor) <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Lijun Ou <redacted>
---
V1->V2:
- Add Fixes for indicating that the driver is updated synchronously.
---
doc/guides/nics/features.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++
doc/guides/nics/features/default.ini | 1 +
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/features.rst b/doc/guides/nics/features.rst
index 59beb47..fed98bf 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/features.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/features.rst@@ -908,6 +908,20 @@ Supports to get Rx/Tx packet burst mode information. * **[implements] eth_dev_ops**: ``rx_burst_mode_get``, ``tx_burst_mode_get``. * **[related] API**: ``rte_eth_rx_burst_mode_get()``, ``rte_eth_tx_burst_mode_get()``. +.. _nic_features_fec: + +FEC +--- + +Supports Forward error correction. Forward error correction (FEC) is a bit error correction mode. +It adds error correction information to data packets at the transmit end, and uses the error correction +information to correct the bit errors generated during data packet transmission at the receive end. This +improves signal quality but also brings a delay to signals. This function can be enabled or disabled as required. + +* **[implements] eth_dev_ops**: ``fec_get_capability``, ``fec_get``, ``fec_set``. +* **[provides] rte_eth_fec_capa**: ``speed:ETH_SPEED_NUM_*``, ``capa:RTE_ETH_FEC_MODE_TO_CAPA()``. +* **[related] API**: ``rte_eth_fec_get_capability()``, ``rte_eth_fec_get()``, ``rte_eth_fec_set()``. + .. _nic_features_other: Other dev ops not represented by a Feature
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/features/default.ini b/doc/guides/nics/features/default.ini
index 8d89278..f0d89da 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/features/default.ini
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/features/default.ini@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ Module EEPROM dump = Registers dump = LED = Multiprocess aware = +FEC = FreeBSD = Linux = Windows =
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