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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 Currently the driver is supported only on x86_64 architectures.
21 Only x86_64 versions of the external libraries are provided.
26 This PMD requires kernel modules which are responsible for initialization and
27 allocation of resources needed for sze2 layer function.
28 Communication between PMD and kernel modules is mediated by libsze2 library.
29 These kernel modules and library are not part of DPDK and must be installed
34 The library provides API for initialization of sze2 transfers, receiving and
35 transmitting data segments.
42 * szedata2_cv3 or szedata2_cv3_fdt
44 Kernel modules manage initialization of hardware, allocation and
45 sharing of resources for user space applications.
47 Information about getting the dependencies can be found `here
48 <http://www.netcope.com/en/company/community-support/dpdk-libsze2>`_.
50 Versions of the packages
51 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
53 The minimum version of the provided packages:
55 * for DPDK from 18.05: **4.4.1**
57 * for DPDK up to 18.02 (including): **3.0.5**
60 Using the SZEDATA2 PMD
61 ----------------------
63 From DPDK version 16.04 the type of SZEDATA2 PMD is changed to PMD_PDEV.
64 SZEDATA2 device is automatically recognized during EAL initialization.
65 No special command line options are needed.
67 Kernel modules have to be loaded before running the DPDK application.
72 The NFB cards are multi-port multi-queue cards, where (generally) data from any
73 Ethernet port may be sent to any queue.
74 They were historically represented in DPDK as a single port.
76 However, the new NFB-200G2QL card employs an add-on cable which allows to connect
77 it to two physical PCI-E slots at the same time (see the diagram below).
78 This is done to allow 200 Gbps of traffic to be transferred through the PCI-E
79 bus (note that a single PCI-E 3.0 x16 slot provides only 125 Gbps theoretical
82 Since each slot may be connected to a different CPU and therefore to a different
83 NUMA node, the card is represented as two ports in DPDK (each with half of the
84 queues), which allows DPDK to work with data from the individual queues on the
87 .. figure:: img/szedata2_nfb200g_architecture.*
90 NFB-200G2QL high-level diagram
95 The SZEDATA2 PMD does not support operations related to Ethernet ports
96 (link_up, link_down, set_mac_address, etc.).
98 NFB cards employ multiple Ethernet ports.
99 Until now, Ethernet port-related operations were performed on all of them
100 (since the whole card was represented as a single port).
101 With NFB-200G2QL card, this is no longer viable (see above).
103 Since there is no fixed mapping between the queues and Ethernet ports, and since
104 a single card can be represented as two ports in DPDK, there is no way of
105 telling which (if any) physical ports should be associated with individual
111 Read packets from 0. and 1. receive channel and write them to 0. and 1.
114 .. code-block:: console
116 ./<build_dir>/app/dpdk-testpmd -l 0-3 -n 2 \
117 -- --port-topology=chained --rxq=2 --txq=2 --nb-cores=2 -i -a
121 .. code-block:: console
124 EAL: PCI device 0000:06:00.0 on NUMA socket -1
125 EAL: probe driver: 1b26:c1c1 rte_szedata2_pmd
126 PMD: Initializing szedata2 device (0000:06:00.0)
127 PMD: SZEDATA2 path: /dev/szedataII0
128 PMD: Available DMA channels RX: 8 TX: 8
129 PMD: resource0 phys_addr = 0xe8000000 len = 134217728 virt addr = 7f48f8000000
130 PMD: szedata2 device (0000:06:00.0) successfully initialized
131 Interactive-mode selected
133 Configuring Port 0 (socket 0)
134 Port 0: 00:11:17:00:00:00
135 Checking link statuses...
136 Port 0 Link Up - speed 10000 Mbps - full-duplex
138 Start automatic packet forwarding
139 io packet forwarding - CRC stripping disabled - packets/burst=32
140 nb forwarding cores=2 - nb forwarding ports=1
141 RX queues=2 - RX desc=128 - RX free threshold=0
142 RX threshold registers: pthresh=0 hthresh=0 wthresh=0
143 TX queues=2 - TX desc=512 - TX free threshold=0
144 TX threshold registers: pthresh=0 hthresh=0 wthresh=0
145 TX RS bit threshold=0 - TXQ flags=0x0