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4 SZEDATA2 poll mode driver library
5 =================================
7 The SZEDATA2 poll mode driver library implements support for the Netcope
8 FPGA Boards (**NFB-40G2, NFB-100G2, NFB-200G2QL**) and Silicom **FB2CGG3** card,
9 FPGA-based programmable NICs. The SZEDATA2 PMD uses interface provided by the libsze2
10 library to communicate with the NFB cards over the sze2 layer.
12 More information about the
13 `NFB cards <http://www.netcope.com/en/products/fpga-boards>`_
15 (`Netcope Development Kit <http://www.netcope.com/en/products/fpga-development-kit>`_)
16 can be found on the `Netcope Technologies website <http://www.netcope.com/>`_.
20 This driver has external dependencies.
21 Therefore it is disabled in default configuration files.
22 It can be enabled by setting ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_SZEDATA2=y``
27 Currently the driver is supported only on x86_64 architectures.
28 Only x86_64 versions of the external libraries are provided.
33 This PMD requires kernel modules which are responsible for initialization and
34 allocation of resources needed for sze2 layer function.
35 Communication between PMD and kernel modules is mediated by libsze2 library.
36 These kernel modules and library are not part of DPDK and must be installed
41 The library provides API for initialization of sze2 transfers, receiving and
42 transmitting data segments.
49 * szedata2_cv3 or szedata2_cv3_fdt
51 Kernel modules manage initialization of hardware, allocation and
52 sharing of resources for user space applications.
54 Information about getting the dependencies can be found `here
55 <http://www.netcope.com/en/company/community-support/dpdk-libsze2>`_.
57 Versions of the packages
58 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
60 The minimum version of the provided packages:
62 * for DPDK from 18.05: **4.4.1**
64 * for DPDK up to 18.02 (including): **3.0.5**
69 These configuration options can be modified before compilation in the
72 * ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_SZEDATA2`` default value: **n**
74 Value **y** enables compilation of szedata2 PMD.
76 Using the SZEDATA2 PMD
77 ----------------------
79 From DPDK version 16.04 the type of SZEDATA2 PMD is changed to PMD_PDEV.
80 SZEDATA2 device is automatically recognized during EAL initialization.
81 No special command line options are needed.
83 Kernel modules have to be loaded before running the DPDK application.
88 The NFB cards are multi-port multi-queue cards, where (generally) data from any
89 Ethernet port may be sent to any queue.
90 They were historically represented in DPDK as a single port.
92 However, the new NFB-200G2QL card employs an add-on cable which allows to connect
93 it to two physical PCI-E slots at the same time (see the diagram below).
94 This is done to allow 200 Gbps of traffic to be transferred through the PCI-E
95 bus (note that a single PCI-E 3.0 x16 slot provides only 125 Gbps theoretical
98 Since each slot may be connected to a different CPU and therefore to a different
99 NUMA node, the card is represented as two ports in DPDK (each with half of the
100 queues), which allows DPDK to work with data from the individual queues on the
103 .. figure:: img/szedata2_nfb200g_architecture.*
106 NFB-200G2QL high-level diagram
111 The SZEDATA2 PMD does not support operations related to Ethernet ports
112 (link_up, link_down, set_mac_address, etc.).
114 NFB cards employ multiple Ethernet ports.
115 Until now, Ethernet port-related operations were performed on all of them
116 (since the whole card was represented as a single port).
117 With NFB-200G2QL card, this is no longer viable (see above).
119 Since there is no fixed mapping between the queues and Ethernet ports, and since
120 a single card can be represented as two ports in DPDK, there is no way of
121 telling which (if any) physical ports should be associated with individual
127 Read packets from 0. and 1. receive channel and write them to 0. and 1.
130 .. code-block:: console
132 $RTE_TARGET/app/testpmd -l 0-3 -n 2 \
133 -- --port-topology=chained --rxq=2 --txq=2 --nb-cores=2 -i -a
137 .. code-block:: console
140 EAL: PCI device 0000:06:00.0 on NUMA socket -1
141 EAL: probe driver: 1b26:c1c1 rte_szedata2_pmd
142 PMD: Initializing szedata2 device (0000:06:00.0)
143 PMD: SZEDATA2 path: /dev/szedataII0
144 PMD: Available DMA channels RX: 8 TX: 8
145 PMD: resource0 phys_addr = 0xe8000000 len = 134217728 virt addr = 7f48f8000000
146 PMD: szedata2 device (0000:06:00.0) successfully initialized
147 Interactive-mode selected
149 Configuring Port 0 (socket 0)
150 Port 0: 00:11:17:00:00:00
151 Checking link statuses...
152 Port 0 Link Up - speed 10000 Mbps - full-duplex
154 Start automatic packet forwarding
155 io packet forwarding - CRC stripping disabled - packets/burst=32
156 nb forwarding cores=2 - nb forwarding ports=1
157 RX queues=2 - RX desc=128 - RX free threshold=0
158 RX threshold registers: pthresh=0 hthresh=0 wthresh=0
159 TX queues=2 - TX desc=512 - TX free threshold=0
160 TX threshold registers: pthresh=0 hthresh=0 wthresh=0
161 TX RS bit threshold=0 - TXQ flags=0x0