1cf9b3c36SYuval Avnery.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause 2cf9b3c36SYuval Avnery Copyright 2020 Mellanox Technologies, Ltd 3cf9b3c36SYuval Avnery 4cf9b3c36SYuval Avnery.. include:: <isonum.txt> 5cf9b3c36SYuval Avnery 6a3ade5e3SMichael BaumMLX5 RegEx Driver 7cf9b3c36SYuval Avnery================= 8cf9b3c36SYuval Avnery 9a3ade5e3SMichael BaumThe mlx5 RegEx (Regular Expression) driver library 10*7b61f14eSRaslan Darawsheh(**librte_regex_mlx5**) provides support for **NVIDIA BlueField-2** 11cf9b3c36SYuval Avneryfamilies of 25/50/100/200 Gb/s adapters. 12cf9b3c36SYuval Avnery 13cf9b3c36SYuval AvneryDesign 14cf9b3c36SYuval Avnery------ 15cf9b3c36SYuval Avnery 16cf9b3c36SYuval AvneryThis PMD is configuring the RegEx HW engine. 17cf9b3c36SYuval AvneryFor the PMD to work, the application must supply 18cf9b3c36SYuval Avnerya precompiled rule file in rof2 format. 19cf9b3c36SYuval Avnery 20a3ade5e3SMichael BaumSee :doc:`../../platform/mlx5` guide for more design details. 21cf9b3c36SYuval Avnery 22330a70b7SSuanming MouFeatures 23330a70b7SSuanming Mou-------- 24330a70b7SSuanming Mou 25330a70b7SSuanming Mou- Multi segments mbuf support. 26330a70b7SSuanming Mou 27a3ade5e3SMichael BaumConfiguration 28a3ade5e3SMichael Baum------------- 29a3ade5e3SMichael Baum 30a3ade5e3SMichael BaumSee :ref:`mlx5 common compilation <mlx5_common_compilation>`, 31a3ade5e3SMichael Baum:ref:`mlx5 firmware configuration <mlx5_firmware_config>`, 32a3ade5e3SMichael Baumand :ref:`mlx5 common driver options <mlx5_common_driver_options>`. 33a3ade5e3SMichael Baum 34a3ade5e3SMichael Baum 35cf9b3c36SYuval AvnerySupported NICs 36cf9b3c36SYuval Avnery-------------- 37cf9b3c36SYuval Avnery 38*7b61f14eSRaslan Darawsheh* NVIDIA\ |reg| BlueField-2 SmartNIC 39cf9b3c36SYuval Avnery 40cf9b3c36SYuval AvneryPrerequisites 41cf9b3c36SYuval Avnery------------- 42cf9b3c36SYuval Avnery 43*7b61f14eSRaslan Darawsheh- BlueField-2 running NVIDIA supported kernel. 4467e1bb42SMichael Baum- Enable the RegEx capabilities using system call from the BlueField-2. 45cf9b3c36SYuval Avnery- Official support is not yet released. 46cf9b3c36SYuval Avnery 47a3ade5e3SMichael Baum 480253af30SOri KamLimitations 490253af30SOri Kam----------- 500253af30SOri Kam 519fa82d28SAdy Agbarih- The firmware version must be greater than XX.31.0364 52