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The QEDE poll mode driver library (**librte_pmd_qede**) implements support
-for **QLogic FastLinQ QL4xxxx 25G/40G CNA** family of adapters as well
+for **QLogic FastLinQ QL4xxxx 25G/40G/100G CNA** family of adapters as well
as their virtual functions (VF) in SR-IOV context. It is supported on
several standard Linux distros like RHEL7.x, SLES12.x and Ubuntu.
It is compile-tested under FreeBSD OS.
- Promiscuous mode
- Allmulti mode
- Port hardware statistics
-- Jumbo frames (using single buffer)
+- Jumbo frames
- VLAN offload - Filtering and stripping
- Stateless checksum offloads (IPv4/TCP/UDP)
-- Multiple Rx/Tx queues (queue-pairs)
-- RSS (with default table/key)
+- Multiple Rx/Tx queues
+- RSS (with RETA/hash table/key)
- TSS
- Multiple MAC address
- Default pause flow control
- SR-IOV VF
+- MTU change
+- Multiprocess aware
+- Scatter-Gather
+- VXLAN tunneling offload
Non-supported Features
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-- Scatter-Gather Rx/Tx frames
-- User configurable RETA table/key
-- Unequal number of Rx/Tx queues
-- MTU change (dynamic)
- SR-IOV PF
-- Tunneling offloads
-- Reload of the PMD after a non-graceful termination
+- GENEVE and NVGRE Tunneling offloads
+- LRO/TSO
+- NPAR
Supported QLogic Adapters
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-- QLogic FastLinQ QL4xxxx 25G/40G CNAs
+- QLogic FastLinQ QL4xxxx 10G/25G/40G/100G CNAs.
Prerequisites
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-- Requires firmware version **8.7.x.** and management
- firmware version **8.7.x or higher**. Firmware may be available
+- Requires firmware version **8.10.x.** and management firmware
+ version **8.10.x or higher**. Firmware may be available
inbox in certain newer Linux distros under the standard directory
- ``E.g. /lib/firmware/qed/qed_init_values_zipped-8.7.7.0.bin``
+ ``E.g. /lib/firmware/qed/qed_init_values-8.10.9.0.bin``
- If the required firmware files are not available then visit
`QLogic Driver Download Center <http://driverdownloads.qlogic.com>`_.
-- This driver relies on external zlib library (-lz) for uncompressing
- the firmware file.
-
Performance note
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Toggle display of generic debugging messages.
-- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_QEDE_DEBUG_DRV`` (default **n**)
+- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_QEDE_DEBUG_DRIVER`` (default **n**)
Toggle display of ecore related messages.
- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_QEDE_FW`` (default **""**)
Gives absolute path of firmware file.
- ``Eg: "/lib/firmware/qed/qed_init_values_zipped-8.7.7.0.bin"``
+ ``Eg: "/lib/firmware/qed/qed_init_values_zipped-8.10.9.0.bin"``
Empty string indicates driver will pick up the firmware file
from the default location.
cd <DPDK-source-directory>
gmake config T=x86_64-native-bsdapp-gcc install -Wl,-rpath=\
- /usr/local/lib/gcc48 CC=gcc48
+ /usr/local/lib/gcc49 CC=gcc49
Sample Application Notes
.. code-block:: console
- ./tools/dpdk_nic_bind.py --bind igb_uio 0000:84:00.0 0000:84:00.1 \
+ ./usertools/dpdk-devbind.py --bind igb_uio 0000:84:00.0 0000:84:00.1 \
0000:84:00.2 0000:84:00.3
#. Start ``testpmd`` with basic parameters:
This section provides instructions to configure SR-IOV with Linux OS.
-**Note**: librte_pmd_qede will be used to bind to SR-IOV VF device and Linux native kernel driver (QEDE) will function as SR-IOV PF driver.
+**Note**: librte_pmd_qede will be used to bind to SR-IOV VF device and Linux native kernel driver (QEDE) will function as SR-IOV PF driver. Requires PF driver to be 8.10.x.x or higher.
#. Verify SR-IOV and ARI capability is enabled on the adapter using ``lspci``: