doc: mention the limited number of RX/TX descriptors on Intel NICs

Ticket: 6748
pull/10413/head
Lukas Sismis 1 year ago committed by Victor Julien
parent c65ff35819
commit 356f9ffa13

@ -2138,7 +2138,11 @@ size of the cache is covered in the YAML file.
To be able to run DPDK on Intel cards, it is required to change the default
Intel driver to either `vfio-pci` or `igb_uio` driver. The process is
described in `DPDK manual page regarding Linux drivers
<https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/linux_gsg/linux_drivers.html>`_.
<https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/linux_gsg/linux_drivers.html>`_.
The Intel NICs have the amount of RX/TX descriptors capped at 4096.
This should be possible to change by manually compiling the DPDK while
changing the value of respective macros for the desired drivers
(e.g. IXGBE_MAX_RING_DESC/I40E_MAX_RING_DESC).
DPDK is natively supported by Mellanox and thus their NICs should work
"out of the box".

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