From 2c370a1dd70130d82e9222945ff2421a4168e640 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 19:40:14 +0200 Subject: Merging upstream version 1:7.0.4. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- doc/userguide/configuration/suricata-yaml.rst | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'doc/userguide/configuration/suricata-yaml.rst') diff --git a/doc/userguide/configuration/suricata-yaml.rst b/doc/userguide/configuration/suricata-yaml.rst index 6e2e0cd..6eea5e8 100644 --- a/doc/userguide/configuration/suricata-yaml.rst +++ b/doc/userguide/configuration/suricata-yaml.rst @@ -2130,7 +2130,11 @@ 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 -`_. +`_. +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". -- cgit v1.2.3