1 .. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
3 Copyright 2019 Netcope Technologies
5 NFB poll mode driver library
6 =================================
8 The NFB poll mode driver library implements support for the Netcope
9 FPGA Boards (**NFB-40G2, NFB-100G2, NFB-200G2QL**) and Silicom **FB2CGG3** card,
10 FPGA-based programmable NICs. The NFB PMD uses interface provided by the libnfb
11 library to communicate with these cards over the nfb layer.
13 More information about the
14 `NFB cards <http://www.netcope.com/en/products/fpga-boards>`_
16 (`Netcope Development Kit <http://www.netcope.com/en/products/fpga-development-kit>`_)
17 can be found on the `Netcope Technologies website <http://www.netcope.com/>`_.
21 Currently the driver is supported only on x86_64 architectures.
22 Only x86_64 versions of the external libraries are provided.
27 This PMD requires kernel modules which are responsible for initialization and
28 allocation of resources needed for nfb layer function.
29 Communication between PMD and kernel modules is mediated by libnfb library.
30 These kernel modules and library are not part of DPDK and must be installed
35 The library provides API for initialization of nfb transfers, receiving and
36 transmitting data segments.
42 Kernel modules manage initialization of hardware, allocation and
43 sharing of resources for user space applications.
45 Dependencies can be found here:
46 `Netcope common <https://www.netcope.com/en/company/community-support/dpdk-libsze2#NFB>`_.
48 Versions of the packages
49 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
51 The minimum version of the provided packages:
60 The PMD supports hardware timestamps of frame receipt on physical network interface. In order to use
61 the timestamps, the hardware timestamping unit must be enabled (follow the documentation of the NFB
62 products) and the device argument `timestamp=1` must be used.
64 .. code-block:: console
66 ./<build_dir>/app/dpdk-testpmd -a b3:00.0,timestamp=1 <other EAL params> -- <testpmd params>
68 When the timestamps are enabled with the *devarg*, a timestamp validity flag is set in the MBUFs
69 containing received frames and timestamp is inserted into the `rte_mbuf` struct.
71 The timestamp is an `uint64_t` field. Its lower 32 bits represent *seconds* portion of the timestamp
72 (number of seconds elapsed since 1.1.1970 00:00:00 UTC) and its higher 32 bits represent
73 *nanosecond* portion of the timestamp (number of nanoseconds elapsed since the beginning of the
74 second in the *seconds* portion.
78 ----------------------
80 Kernel modules have to be loaded before running the DPDK application.
85 The NFB cards are multi-port multi-queue cards, where (generally) data from any
86 Ethernet port may be sent to any queue.
87 They are represented in DPDK as a single port.
89 NFB-200G2QL card employs an add-on cable which allows to connect it to two
90 physical PCI-E slots at the same time (see the diagram below).
91 This is done to allow 200 Gbps of traffic to be transferred through the PCI-E
92 bus (note that a single PCI-E 3.0 x16 slot provides only 125 Gbps theoretical
95 Although each slot may be connected to a different CPU and therefore to a different
96 NUMA node, the card is represented as a single port in DPDK. To work with data
97 from the individual queues on the right NUMA node, connection of NUMA nodes on
98 first and last queue (each NUMA node has half of the queues) need to be checked.
100 .. figure:: img/szedata2_nfb200g_architecture.*
103 NFB-200G2QL high-level diagram
108 Driver is usable only on Linux architecture, namely on CentOS.
110 Since a card is always represented as a single port, but can be connected to two
111 NUMA nodes, there is need for manual check where master/slave is connected.
116 Read packets from 0. and 1. receive queue and write them to 0. and 1.
119 .. code-block:: console
121 ./<build_dir>/app/dpdk-testpmd -l 0-3 -n 2 \
122 -- --port-topology=chained --rxq=2 --txq=2 --nb-cores=2 -i -a
126 .. code-block:: console
129 EAL: PCI device 0000:06:00.0 on NUMA socket -1
130 EAL: probe driver: 1b26:c1c1 net_nfb
131 PMD: Initializing NFB device (0000:06:00.0)
132 PMD: Available DMA queues RX: 8 TX: 8
133 PMD: NFB device (0000:06:00.0) successfully initialized
134 Interactive-mode selected
136 Configuring Port 0 (socket 0)
137 Port 0: 00:11:17:00:00:00
138 Checking link statuses...
139 Port 0 Link Up - speed 10000 Mbps - full-duplex
141 Start automatic packet forwarding
142 io packet forwarding - CRC stripping disabled - packets/burst=32
143 nb forwarding cores=2 - nb forwarding ports=1
144 RX queues=2 - RX desc=128 - RX free threshold=0
145 RX threshold registers: pthresh=0 hthresh=0 wthresh=0
146 TX queues=2 - TX desc=512 - TX free threshold=0
147 TX threshold registers: pthresh=0 hthresh=0 wthresh=0
148 TX RS bit threshold=0 - TXQ flags=0x0