1 .. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
2 Copyright (c) 2015-2021 Atomic Rules LLC
8 The ARK PMD is a DPDK poll-mode driver for the Atomic Rules Arkville
9 (ARK) family of devices.
11 More information can be found at the `Atomic Rules website
12 <http://atomicrules.com>`_.
17 The Atomic Rules Arkville product is DPDK and AXI compliant product
18 that marshals packets across a PCIe conduit between host DPDK mbufs and
21 The ARK PMD, and the spirit of the overall Arkville product,
22 has been to take the DPDK API/ABI as a fixed specification;
23 then implement much of the business logic in FPGA RTL circuits.
24 The approach of *working backwards* from the DPDK API/ABI and having
25 the GPP host software *dictate*, while the FPGA hardware *copes*,
26 results in significant performance gains over a naive implementation.
28 While this document describes the ARK PMD software, it is helpful to
29 understand what the FPGA hardware is and is not. The Arkville RTL
30 component provides a single PCIe Physical Function (PF) supporting
31 some number of RX/Ingress and TX/Egress Queues. The ARK PMD controls
32 the Arkville core through a dedicated opaque Core BAR (CBAR).
33 To allow users full freedom for their own FPGA application IP,
34 an independent FPGA Application BAR (ABAR) is provided.
36 One popular way to imagine Arkville's FPGA hardware aspect is as the
37 FPGA PCIe-facing side of a so-called Smart NIC. The Arkville core does
38 not contain any MACs, and is link-speed independent, as well as
39 agnostic to the number of physical ports the application chooses to
40 use. The ARK driver exposes the familiar PMD interface to allow packet
41 movement to and from mbufs across multiple queues.
43 However FPGA RTL applications could contain a universe of added
44 functionality that an Arkville RTL core does not provide or can
45 not anticipate. To allow for this expectation of user-defined
46 innovation, the ARK PMD provides a dynamic mechanism of adding
47 capabilities without having to modify the ARK PMD.
49 The ARK PMD is intended to support all instances of the Arkville
50 RTL Core, regardless of configuration, FPGA vendor, or target
51 board. While specific capabilities such as number of physical
52 hardware queue-pairs are negotiated; the driver is designed to
53 remain constant over a broad and extendable feature set.
55 Intentionally, Arkville by itself DOES NOT provide common NIC
56 capabilities such as offload or receive-side scaling (RSS).
57 These capabilities would be viewed as a gate-level "tax" on
58 Green-box FPGA applications that do not require such function.
59 Instead, they can be added as needed with essentially no
60 overhead to the FPGA Application.
62 The ARK PMD also supports optional user extensions, through dynamic linking.
63 The ARK PMD user extensions are a feature of Arkville’s DPDK
64 net/ark poll mode driver, allowing users to add their
65 own code to extend the net/ark functionality without
66 having to make source code changes to the driver. One motivation for
67 this capability is that while DPDK provides a rich set of functions
68 to interact with NIC-like capabilities (e.g. MAC addresses and statistics),
69 the Arkville RTL IP does not include a MAC. Users can supply their
70 own MAC or custom FPGA applications, which may require control from
71 the PMD. The user extension is the means providing the control
72 between the user's FPGA application and the existing DPDK features via
78 The ARK PMD supports device parameters that are used for packet
79 routing and for internal packet generation and packet checking. This
80 section describes the supported parameters. These features are
81 primarily used for diagnostics, testing, and performance verification
82 under the guidance of an Arkville specialist. The nominal use of
83 Arkville does not require any configuration using these parameters.
87 The Packet Director controls connectivity between Arkville's internal
88 hardware components. The features of the Pkt_dir are only used for
89 diagnostics and testing; it is not intended for nominal use. The full
90 set of features are not published at this level.
97 The packet generator parameter takes a file as its argument. The file
98 contains configuration parameters used internally for regression
99 testing and are not intended to be published at this level. The
100 packet generator is an internal Arkville hardware component.
103 Pkt_gen=./config/pg.conf
107 The packet checker parameter takes a file as its argument. The file
108 contains configuration parameters used internally for regression
109 testing and are not intended to be published at this level. The
110 packet checker is an internal Arkville hardware component.
113 Pkt_chkr=./config/pc.conf
119 Ingress RX and Egress TX operation is by the nominal DPDK API .
120 The driver supports single-port, multi-queue for both RX and TX.
122 Configuration Information
123 -------------------------
125 **DPDK Configuration Parameter**
127 * **RTE_LIBRTE_ARK_MIN_TX_PKTLEN** (default 0): Sets the minimum
128 packet length for tx packets to the FPGA. Packets less than this
129 length are padded to meet the requirement. This allows padding to
130 be offloaded or remain in host software.
133 Dynamic PMD Extension
134 ---------------------
136 Dynamic PMD extensions allow users to customize net/ark functionality
137 using their own code. Arkville RTL and this PMD support high-throughput data
138 movement, and these extensions allow PMD support for users' FPGA
140 Dynamic PMD extensions operate by having users supply a shared object
141 file which is loaded by Arkville PMD during initialization. The
142 object file contains extension (or hook) functions that are registered
143 and then called during PMD operations.
145 The allowable set of extension functions are defined and documented in
146 ``ark_ext.h``, only the initialization function,
147 ``rte_pmd_ark_dev_init()``, is required; all others are optional. The
148 following sections give a small extension example along with
149 instructions for compiling and using the extension.
155 The following example shows an extension which populates mbuf fields
156 during RX from user meta data coming from FPGA hardware.
161 #include <rte_mbuf.h>
162 #include <rte_ethdev.h>
163 #include <rte_malloc.h>
165 /* Global structure passed to extension/hook functions */
166 struct ark_user_extension {
167 int timestamp_dynfield_offset;
170 /* RX tuser field based on user's hardware */
171 struct user_rx_meta {
176 /* Create ark_user_extension object for use in other hook functions */
177 void *rte_pmd_ark_dev_init(struct rte_eth_dev * dev,
178 void * abar, int port_id )
182 fprintf(stderr, "Called Arkville user extension for port %u\n",
185 struct ark_user_extension *xdata = rte_zmalloc("macExtS",
186 sizeof(struct ark_user_extension), 64);
190 /* register dynfield for rx timestamp */
191 rte_mbuf_dyn_rx_timestamp_register(&xdata->timestamp_dynfield_offset,
194 fprintf(stderr, "timestamp fields offset in extension is %d\n",
195 xdata->timestamp_dynfield_offset);
199 /* uninitialization */
200 void rte_pmd_ark_dev_uninit(struct rte_eth_dev * dev, void *user_data)
205 /* Hook function -- called for each RX packet
206 * Extract RX timestamp and RSS from meta and place in mbuf
208 void rte_pmd_ark_rx_user_meta_hook(struct rte_mbuf *mbuf,
209 const uint32_t *meta,
212 struct ark_user_extension *xdata = user_data;
213 struct user_rx_meta *user_rx = (struct user_rx_meta*)meta;
214 *RTE_MBUF_DYNFIELD(mbuf, xdata->timestamp_dynfield_offset, uint64_t*) =
216 mbuf->hash.rss = user_rx->rss;
223 It is recommended to the compile the extension code with
224 ``-Wmissing-prototypes`` flag to insure correct function types. Typical
225 DPDK options will also be needed.
228 An example command line is give below
230 .. code-block:: console
232 cc `pkg-config --cflags libdpdk` \
233 -O3 -DALLOW_EXPERIMENTAL_API -fPIC -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -c \
234 -o pmd_net_ark_ext.o pmd_net_ark_ext.c
236 cc -o libfx1_100g_ext.so.1 -shared \
237 `pkg-config --libs libdpdk` \
238 -Wl,--unresolved-symbols=ignore-all \
239 -Wl,-soname,libpmd_net_ark_ext.so.1 pmd_net_ark_ext.o
241 In a ``Makefile`` this would be
243 .. code-block:: Makefile
245 CFLAGS += $(shell pkg-config --cflags libdpdk)
246 CFLAGS += -O3 -DALLOW_EXPERIMENTAL_API -fPIC -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes
248 LDFLAGS += $(shell pkg-config --libs libdpdk)
249 LDFLAGS += -Wl,--unresolved-symbols=ignore-all -Wl,-soname,libpmd_net_ark_ext.so.1
251 The application must be linked with the ``-export-dynamic`` flags if any
252 DPDK or application specific code will called from the extension.
258 The extensions are enabled in the application through the use of an
259 environment variable ``ARK_EXT_PATH`` This variable points to the lib
260 extension file generated above. For example:
262 .. code-block:: console
264 export ARK_EXT_PATH=$(PWD)/libpmd_net_ark_ext.so.1
271 See the :ref:`DPDK Getting Started Guide for Linux <linux_gsg>` for
272 instructions on how to build DPDK.
274 By default the ARK PMD library will be built into the DPDK library.
276 For configuring and using UIO and VFIO frameworks, please also refer :ref:`the
277 documentation that comes with DPDK suite <linux_gsg>`.
279 To build with a non-zero minimum tx packet length, set the above macro in your
280 CFLAGS environment prior to the meson build step. I.e.,
282 .. code-block:: console
284 export CFLAGS="-DRTE_LIBRTE_ARK_MIN_TX_PKTLEN=60"
288 Supported ARK RTL PCIe Instances
289 --------------------------------
291 ARK PMD supports the following Arkville RTL PCIe instances including:
293 * ``1d6c:100d`` - AR-ARKA-FX0 [Arkville 32B DPDK Data Mover]
294 * ``1d6c:100e`` - AR-ARKA-FX1 [Arkville 64B DPDK Data Mover]
295 * ``1d6c:100f`` - AR-ARKA-FX1 [Arkville 64B DPDK Data Mover for Versal]
296 * ``1d6c:1010`` - AR-ARKA-FX1 [Arkville 64B DPDK Data Mover for Agilex]
297 * ``1d6c:1017`` - AR-ARK-FX1 [Arkville 64B Multi-Homed Primary Endpoint]
298 * ``1d6c:1018`` - AR-ARK-FX1 [Arkville 64B Multi-Homed Secondary Endpoint]
299 * ``1d6c:1019`` - AR-ARK-FX1 [Arkville 64B Multi-Homed Tertiary Endpoint]
301 Supported Operating Systems
302 ---------------------------
304 Any Linux distribution fulfilling the conditions described in ``System Requirements``
305 section of :ref:`the DPDK documentation <linux_gsg>` or refer to *DPDK
306 Release Notes*. ARM and PowerPC architectures are not supported at this time.
312 * Dynamic ARK PMD extensions
313 * Multiple receive and transmit queues
314 * Jumbo frames up to 9K
315 * Hardware Statistics
320 Features that may be part of, or become part of, the Arkville RTL IP that are
321 not currently supported or exposed by the ARK PMD include:
323 * PCIe SR-IOV Virtual Functions (VFs)
324 * Arkville's Packet Generator Control and Status
325 * Arkville's Packet Director Control and Status
326 * Arkville's Packet Checker Control and Status
327 * Arkville's Timebase Management
332 #. Prepare the system as recommended by DPDK suite. This includes environment
333 variables, hugepages configuration, tool-chains and configuration
335 #. Insert igb_uio kernel module using the command 'modprobe igb_uio'
337 #. Bind the intended ARK device to igb_uio module
339 At this point the system should be ready to run DPDK applications. Once the
340 application runs to completion, the ARK PMD can be detached from igb_uio if necessary.
345 Follow instructions available in the document
346 :ref:`compiling and testing a PMD for a NIC <pmd_build_and_test>` to launch
347 **testpmd** with Atomic Rules ARK devices managed by librte_net_ark.
351 .. code-block:: console
354 EAL: PCI device 0000:01:00.0 on NUMA socket -1
355 EAL: probe driver: 1d6c:100e rte_ark_pmd
356 EAL: PCI memory mapped at 0x7f9b6c400000
357 PMD: eth_ark_dev_init(): Initializing 0:2:0.1
358 ARKP PMD CommitID: 378f3a67
359 Configuring Port 0 (socket 0)
360 Port 0: DC:3C:F6:00:00:01
361 Checking link statuses...
362 Port 0 Link Up - speed 100000 Mbps - full-duplex