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    Copyright(C) 2021 Marvell.

CNXK Poll Mode driver
=====================

The CNXK ETHDEV PMD (**librte_net_cnxk**) provides poll mode ethdev driver
support for the inbuilt network device found in **Marvell OCTEON CN9K/CN10K**
SoC family as well as for their virtual functions (VF) in SR-IOV context.

More information can be found at `Marvell Official Website
<https://www.marvell.com/embedded-processors/infrastructure-processors>`_.

Features
--------

Features of the CNXK Ethdev PMD are:

- Packet type information
- Promiscuous mode
- Jumbo frames
- SR-IOV VF
- Lock-free Tx queue
- Multiple queues for TX and RX
- Receiver Side Scaling (RSS)
- MAC filtering
- Generic flow API
- Inner and Outer Checksum offload
- Port hardware statistics
- Link state information
- Link flow control
- MTU update
- Scatter-Gather IO support
- Vector Poll mode driver
- Debug utilities - Context dump and error interrupt support
- Support Rx interrupt
- Inline IPsec processing support
- Ingress meter support

Prerequisites
-------------

See :doc:`../platform/cnxk` for setup information.


Driver compilation and testing
------------------------------

Refer to the document :ref:`compiling and testing a PMD for a NIC <pmd_build_and_test>`
for details.

#. Running testpmd:

   Follow instructions available in the document
   :ref:`compiling and testing a PMD for a NIC <pmd_build_and_test>`
   to run testpmd.

   Example output:

   .. code-block:: console

      ./<build_dir>/app/dpdk-testpmd -c 0xc -a 0002:02:00.0 -- --portmask=0x1 --nb-cores=1 --port-topology=loop --rxq=1 --txq=1
      EAL: Detected 4 lcore(s)
      EAL: Detected 1 NUMA nodes
      EAL: Multi-process socket /var/run/dpdk/rte/mp_socket
      EAL: Selected IOVA mode 'VA'
      EAL: No available hugepages reported in hugepages-16777216kB
      EAL: No available hugepages reported in hugepages-2048kB
      EAL: Probing VFIO support...
      EAL: VFIO support initialized
      EAL:   using IOMMU type 1 (Type 1)
      [ 2003.202721] vfio-pci 0002:02:00.0: vfio_cap_init: hiding cap 0x14@0x98
      EAL: Probe PCI driver: net_cn10k (177d:a063) device: 0002:02:00.0 (socket 0)
      PMD: RoC Model: cn10k
      EAL: No legacy callbacks, legacy socket not created
      testpmd: create a new mbuf pool <mb_pool_0>: n=155456, size=2176, socket=0
      testpmd: preferred mempool ops selected: cn10k_mempool_ops
      Configuring Port 0 (socket 0)
      PMD: Port 0: Link Up - speed 25000 Mbps - full-duplex

      Port 0: link state change event
      Port 0: 96:D4:99:72:A5:BF
      Checking link statuses...
      Done
      No commandline core given, start packet forwarding
      io packet forwarding - ports=1 - cores=1 - streams=1 - NUMA support enabled, MP allocation mode: native
      Logical Core 3 (socket 0) forwards packets on 1 streams:
        RX P=0/Q=0 (socket 0) -> TX P=0/Q=0 (socket 0) peer=02:00:00:00:00:00

        io packet forwarding packets/burst=32
        nb forwarding cores=1 - nb forwarding ports=1
        port 0: RX queue number: 1 Tx queue number: 1
          Rx offloads=0x0 Tx offloads=0x10000
          RX queue: 0
            RX desc=4096 - RX free threshold=0
            RX threshold registers: pthresh=0 hthresh=0  wthresh=0
            RX Offloads=0x0
          TX queue: 0
            TX desc=512 - TX free threshold=0
            TX threshold registers: pthresh=0 hthresh=0  wthresh=0
            TX offloads=0x0 - TX RS bit threshold=0
      Press enter to exit

Runtime Config Options
----------------------

- ``Rx&Tx scalar mode enable`` (default ``0``)

   PMD supports both scalar and vector mode, it may be selected at runtime
   using ``scalar_enable`` ``devargs`` parameter.

- ``RSS reta size`` (default ``64``)

   RSS redirection table size may be configured during runtime using ``reta_size``
   ``devargs`` parameter.

   For example::

      -a 0002:02:00.0,reta_size=256

   With the above configuration, reta table of size 256 is populated.

- ``Flow priority levels`` (default ``3``)

   RTE Flow priority levels can be configured during runtime using
   ``flow_max_priority`` ``devargs`` parameter.

   For example::

      -a 0002:02:00.0,flow_max_priority=10

   With the above configuration, priority level was set to 10 (0-9). Max
   priority level supported is 32.

- ``Reserve Flow entries`` (default ``8``)

   RTE flow entries can be pre allocated and the size of pre allocation can be
   selected runtime using ``flow_prealloc_size`` ``devargs`` parameter.

   For example::

      -a 0002:02:00.0,flow_prealloc_size=4

   With the above configuration, pre alloc size was set to 4. Max pre alloc
   size supported is 32.

- ``Max SQB buffer count`` (default ``512``)

   Send queue descriptor buffer count may be limited during runtime using
   ``max_sqb_count`` ``devargs`` parameter.

   For example::

      -a 0002:02:00.0,max_sqb_count=64

   With the above configuration, each send queue's descriptor buffer count is
   limited to a maximum of 64 buffers.

- ``Switch header enable`` (default ``none``)

   A port can be configured to a specific switch header type by using
   ``switch_header`` ``devargs`` parameter.

   For example::

      -a 0002:02:00.0,switch_header="higig2"

   With the above configuration, higig2 will be enabled on that port and the
   traffic on this port should be higig2 traffic only. Supported switch header
   types are "chlen24b", "chlen90b", "dsa", "exdsa", "higig2" and "vlan_exdsa".

- ``RSS tag as XOR`` (default ``0``)

   The HW gives two options to configure the RSS adder i.e

   * ``rss_adder<7:0> = flow_tag<7:0> ^ flow_tag<15:8> ^ flow_tag<23:16> ^ flow_tag<31:24>``

   * ``rss_adder<7:0> = flow_tag<7:0>``

   Latter one aligns with standard NIC behavior vs former one is a legacy
   RSS adder scheme used in OCTEON TX2 products.

   By default, the driver runs in the latter mode.
   Setting this flag to 1 to select the legacy mode.

   For example to select the legacy mode(RSS tag adder as XOR)::

      -a 0002:02:00.0,tag_as_xor=1

- ``Max SPI for inbound inline IPsec`` (default ``255``)

   Max SPI supported for inbound inline IPsec processing can be specified by
   ``ipsec_in_max_spi`` ``devargs`` parameter.

   For example::

      -a 0002:02:00.0,ipsec_in_max_spi=128

   With the above configuration, application can enable inline IPsec processing
   for 128 inbound SAs (SPI 0-127).

- ``Max SA's for outbound inline IPsec`` (default ``4096``)

   Max number of SA's supported for outbound inline IPsec processing can be
   specified by ``ipsec_out_max_sa`` ``devargs`` parameter.

   For example::

      -a 0002:02:00.0,ipsec_out_max_sa=128

   With the above configuration, application can enable inline IPsec processing
   for 128 outbound SAs.

- ``Outbound CPT LF queue size`` (default ``8200``)

   Size of Outbound CPT LF queue in number of descriptors can be specified by
   ``outb_nb_desc`` ``devargs`` parameter.

   For example::

      -a 0002:02:00.0,outb_nb_desc=16384

    With the above configuration, Outbound CPT LF will be created to accommodate
    at max 16384 descriptors at any given time.

- ``Outbound CPT LF count`` (default ``1``)

   Number of CPT LF's to attach for Outbound processing can be specified by
   ``outb_nb_crypto_qs`` ``devargs`` parameter.

   For example::

      -a 0002:02:00.0,outb_nb_crypto_qs=2

   With the above configuration, two CPT LF's are setup and distributed among
   all the Tx queues for outbound processing.

- ``Force using inline ipsec device for inbound`` (default ``0``)

   In CN10K, in event mode, driver can work in two modes,

   1. Inbound encrypted traffic received by probed ipsec inline device while
      plain traffic post decryption is received by ethdev.

   2. Both Inbound encrypted traffic and plain traffic post decryption are
      received by ethdev.

   By default event mode works without using inline device i.e mode ``2``.
   This behaviour can be changed to pick mode ``1`` by using
   ``force_inb_inl_dev`` ``devargs`` parameter.

   For example::

      -a 0002:02:00.0,force_inb_inl_dev=1 -a 0002:03:00.0,force_inb_inl_dev=1

   With the above configuration, inbound encrypted traffic from both the ports
   is received by ipsec inline device.

- ``Inline IPsec device channel and mask`` (default ``none``)

   Set channel and channel mask configuration for the inline IPSec device. This
   will be used when creating flow rules with RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_SECURITY
   action.

   By default, RTE Flow API sets the channel number of the port on which the
   rule is created in the MCAM entry and matches it exactly. This behaviour can
   be modified using the ``inl_cpt_channel`` ``devargs`` parameter.

   For example::

      -a 0002:1d:00.0,inl_cpt_channel=0x100/0xf00

   With the above configuration, RTE Flow rules API will set the channel
   and channel mask as 0x100 and 0xF00 in the MCAM entries of the  flow rules
   created with RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_SECURITY action. Since channel number is
   set with this custom mask, inbound encrypted traffic from all ports with
   matching channel number pattern will be directed to the inline IPSec device.

.. note::

   Above devarg parameters are configurable per device, user needs to pass the
   parameters to all the PCIe devices if application requires to configure on
   all the ethdev ports.

Limitations
-----------

``mempool_cnxk`` external mempool handler dependency
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The OCTEON CN9K/CN10K SoC family NIC has inbuilt HW assisted external mempool manager.
``net_cnxk`` pmd only works with ``mempool_cnxk`` mempool handler
as it is performance wise most effective way for packet allocation and Tx buffer
recycling on OCTEON TX2 SoC platform.

CRC stripping
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The OCTEON CN9K/CN10K SoC family NICs strip the CRC for every packet being received by
the host interface irrespective of the offload configuration.

RTE flow GRE support
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- ``RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_GRE_KEY`` works only when checksum and routing
  bits in the GRE header are equal to 0.

RTE flow action port_id support
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- ``RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_PORT_ID`` is only supported between PF and its VFs.

Custom protocols supported in RTE Flow
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The ``RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_RAW`` can be used to parse the below custom protocols.

* ``vlan_exdsa`` and ``exdsa`` can be parsed at L2 level.
* ``NGIO`` can be parsed at L3 level.

For ``vlan_exdsa`` and ``exdsa``, the port has to be configured with the
respective switch header.

For example::

   -a 0002:02:00.0,switch_header="vlan_exdsa"

The below fields of ``struct rte_flow_item_raw`` shall be used to specify the
pattern.

- ``relative`` Selects the layer at which parsing is done.

  - 0 for ``exdsa`` and ``vlan_exdsa``.

  - 1 for  ``NGIO``.

- ``offset`` The offset in the header where the pattern should be matched.
- ``length`` Length of the pattern.
- ``pattern`` Pattern as a byte string.

Example usage in testpmd::

   ./dpdk-testpmd -c 3 -w 0002:02:00.0,switch_header=exdsa -- -i \
                  --rx-offloads=0x00080000 --rxq 8 --txq 8
   testpmd> flow create 0 ingress pattern eth / raw relative is 0 pattern \
          spec ab pattern mask ab offset is 4 / end actions queue index 1 / end

Inline device support for CN10K
-------------------------------

CN10K HW provides a misc device Inline device that supports ethernet devices in
providing following features.

  - Aggregate all the inline IPsec inbound traffic from all the CN10K ethernet
    devices to be processed by the single inline IPSec device. This allows
    single rte security session to accept traffic from multiple ports.

  - Support for event generation on outbound inline IPsec processing errors.

  - Support CN106xx poll mode of operation for inline IPSec inbound processing.

Inline IPsec device is identified by PCI PF vendid:devid ``177D:A0F0`` or
VF ``177D:A0F1``.

Runtime Config Options for inline device
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- ``Max SPI for inbound inline IPsec`` (default ``255``)

   Max SPI supported for inbound inline IPsec processing can be specified by
   ``ipsec_in_max_spi`` ``devargs`` parameter.

   For example::

      -a 0002:1d:00.0,ipsec_in_max_spi=128

   With the above configuration, application can enable inline IPsec processing
   for 128 inbound SAs (SPI 0-127) for traffic aggregated on inline device.


Debugging Options
-----------------

.. _table_cnxk_ethdev_debug_options:

.. table:: cnxk ethdev debug options

   +---+------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
   | # | Component  | EAL log command                                       |
   +===+============+=======================================================+
   | 1 | NIX        | --log-level='pmd\.net.cnxk,8'                         |
   +---+------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
   | 2 | NPC        | --log-level='pmd\.net.cnxk\.flow,8'                   |
   +---+------------+-------------------------------------------------------+