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29 Solarflare libefx-based Poll Mode Driver
30 ========================================
32 The SFC EFX PMD (**librte_pmd_sfc_efx**) provides poll mode driver support
33 for **Solarflare SFN7xxx and SFN8xxx** family of 10/40 Gbps adapters.
34 SFC EFX PMD has support for the latest Linux and FreeBSD operating systems.
36 More information can be found at `Solarflare Communications website
37 <http://solarflare.com>`_.
43 SFC EFX PMD has support for:
45 - Multiple transmit and receive queues
47 - Link state information including link status change interrupt
49 - IPv4/IPv6 TCP/UDP transmit checksum offload
51 - Inner IPv4/IPv6 TCP/UDP transmit checksum offload
53 - Port hardware statistics
55 - Extended statistics (see Solarflare Server Adapter User's Guide for
56 the statistics description)
62 - Jumbo frames up to 9K
68 - TCP segmentation offload (TSO)
70 - Multicast MAC filter
72 - IPv4/IPv6 TCP/UDP receive checksum offload
74 - Inner IPv4/IPv6 TCP/UDP receive checksum offload
76 - Received packet type information
78 - Receive side scaling (RSS)
82 - Scattered Rx DMA for packet that are larger that a single Rx descriptor
84 - Deferred receive and transmit queue start
86 - Transmit VLAN insertion (if running firmware variant supports it)
91 Non-supported Features
92 ----------------------
94 The features not yet supported include:
96 - Receive queue interupts
98 - Priority-based flow control
102 - Configurable RX CRC stripping (always stripped)
104 - Header split on receive
116 Due to requirements on receive buffer alignment and usage of the receive
117 buffer for the auxiliary packet information provided by the NIC up to
118 extra 269 (14 bytes prefix plus up to 255 bytes for end padding) bytes may be
119 required in the receive buffer.
120 It should be taken into account when mbuf pool for receive is created.
126 NVGRE, VXLAN and GENEVE tunnels are supported on SFN8xxx family adapters
127 with full-feature firmware variant running.
128 **sfboot** should be used to configure NIC to run full-feature firmware variant.
129 See Solarflare Server Adapter User's Guide for details.
131 SFN8xxx family adapters provide either inner or outer packet classes.
132 If adapter firmware advertises support for tunnels then the PMD
133 configures the hardware to report inner classes, and outer classes are
134 not reported in received packets.
135 However, for VXLAN and GENEVE tunnels the PMD does report UDP as the
136 outer layer 4 packet type.
138 SFN8xxx family adapters report GENEVE packets as VXLAN.
139 If UDP ports are configured for only one tunnel type then it is safe to
140 treat VXLAN packet type indication as the corresponding UDP tunnel type.
146 Supported attributes:
150 Supported pattern items:
154 - ETH (exact match of source/destination addresses, individual/group match
155 of destination address, EtherType in the outer frame and exact match of
156 destination addresses, individual/group match of destination address in
159 - VLAN (exact match of VID, double-tagging is supported)
161 - IPV4 (exact match of source/destination addresses,
162 IP transport protocol)
164 - IPV6 (exact match of source/destination addresses,
165 IP transport protocol)
167 - TCP (exact match of source/destination ports)
169 - UDP (exact match of source/destination ports)
171 - VXLAN (exact match of VXLAN network identifier)
173 - GENEVE (exact match of virtual network identifier, only Ethernet (0x6558)
174 protocol type is supported)
176 - NVGRE (exact match of virtual subnet ID)
186 Validating flow rules depends on the firmware variant.
188 Ethernet destinaton individual/group match
189 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
191 Ethernet item supports I/G matching, if only the corresponding bit is set
192 in the mask of destination address. If destinaton address in the spec is
193 multicast, it matches all multicast (and broadcast) packets, oherwise it
194 matches unicast packets that are not filtered by other flow rules.
196 Exceptions to flow rules
197 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
199 There is a list of exceptional flow rule patterns which will not be
200 accepted by the PMD. A pattern will be rejected if at least one of the
203 - Filtering by IPv4 or IPv6 EtherType without pattern items of internet
206 - The last item is IPV4 or IPV6, and it's empty.
208 - Filtering by TCP or UDP IP transport protocol without pattern items of
209 transport layer and above.
211 - The last item is TCP or UDP, and it's empty.
217 - Solarflare Flareon [Ultra] Server Adapters:
219 - Solarflare SFN8522 Dual Port SFP+ Server Adapter
221 - Solarflare SFN8522M Dual Port SFP+ Server Adapter
223 - Solarflare SFN8042 Dual Port QSFP+ Server Adapter
225 - Solarflare SFN8542 Dual Port QSFP+ Server Adapter
227 - Solarflare SFN8722 Dual Port SFP+ OCP Server Adapter
229 - Solarflare SFN7002F Dual Port SFP+ Server Adapter
231 - Solarflare SFN7004F Quad Port SFP+ Server Adapter
233 - Solarflare SFN7042Q Dual Port QSFP+ Server Adapter
235 - Solarflare SFN7122F Dual Port SFP+ Server Adapter
237 - Solarflare SFN7124F Quad Port SFP+ Server Adapter
239 - Solarflare SFN7142Q Dual Port QSFP+ Server Adapter
241 - Solarflare SFN7322F Precision Time Synchronization Server Adapter
247 - Requires firmware version:
249 - SFN7xxx: **4.7.1.1001** or higher
251 - SFN8xxx: **6.0.2.1004** or higher
253 Visit `Solarflare Support Downloads <https://support.solarflare.com>`_ to get
254 Solarflare Utilities (either Linux or FreeBSD) with the latest firmware.
255 Follow instructions from Solarflare Server Adapter User's Guide to
256 update firmware and configure the adapter.
259 Pre-Installation Configuration
260 ------------------------------
266 The following options can be modified in the ``.config`` file.
267 Please note that enabling debugging options may affect system performance.
269 - ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_SFC_EFX_PMD`` (default **y**)
271 Enable compilation of Solarflare libefx-based poll-mode driver.
273 - ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_SFC_EFX_DEBUG`` (default **n**)
275 Enable compilation of the extra run-time consistency checks.
278 Per-Device Parameters
279 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
281 The following per-device parameters can be passed via EAL PCI device
282 whitelist option like "-w 02:00.0,arg1=value1,...".
284 Case-insensitive 1/y/yes/on or 0/n/no/off may be used to specify
285 boolean parameters value.
287 - ``rx_datapath`` [auto|efx|ef10] (default **auto**)
289 Choose receive datapath implementation.
290 **auto** allows the driver itself to make a choice based on firmware
291 features available and required by the datapath implementation.
292 **efx** chooses libefx-based datapath which supports Rx scatter.
293 **ef10** chooses EF10 (SFN7xxx, SFN8xxx) native datapath which is
294 more efficient than libefx-based and provides richer packet type
295 classification, but lacks Rx scatter support.
297 - ``tx_datapath`` [auto|efx|ef10|ef10_simple] (default **auto**)
299 Choose transmit datapath implementation.
300 **auto** allows the driver itself to make a choice based on firmware
301 features available and required by the datapath implementation.
302 **efx** chooses libefx-based datapath which supports VLAN insertion
303 (full-feature firmware variant only), TSO and multi-segment mbufs.
304 Mbuf segments may come from different mempools, and mbuf reference
305 counters are treated responsibly.
306 **ef10** chooses EF10 (SFN7xxx, SFN8xxx) native datapath which is
307 more efficient than libefx-based but has no VLAN insertion and TSO
309 Mbuf segments may come from different mempools, and mbuf reference
310 counters are treated responsibly.
311 **ef10_simple** chooses EF10 (SFN7xxx, SFN8xxx) native datapath which
312 is even more faster then **ef10** but does not support multi-segment
313 mbufs, disallows multiple mempools and neglects mbuf reference counters.
315 - ``perf_profile`` [auto|throughput|low-latency] (default **throughput**)
317 Choose hardware tunning to be optimized for either throughput or
319 **auto** allows NIC firmware to make a choice based on
320 installed licences and firmware variant configured using **sfboot**.
322 - ``debug_init`` [bool] (default **n**)
324 Enable extra logging during device initialization and startup.
326 - ``mcdi_logging`` [bool] (default **n**)
328 Enable extra logging of the communication with the NIC's management CPU.
329 The logging is done using RTE_LOG() with INFO level and PMD type.
330 The format is consumed by the Solarflare netlogdecode cross-platform tool.
332 - ``stats_update_period_ms`` [long] (default **1000**)
334 Adjust period in milliseconds to update port hardware statistics.
335 The accepted range is 0 to 65535. The value of **0** may be used
336 to disable periodic statistics update. One should note that it's
337 only possible to set an arbitrary value on SFN8xxx provided that
338 firmware version is 6.2.1.1033 or higher, otherwise any positive
339 value will select a fixed update period of **1000** milliseconds