X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Fnics%2Ffm10k.rst;h=7fc486248d03422ba92e4f53b134e37f385d09b9;hb=9ba3d0ae2090;hp=2d1b6b734bd184cdb94bc15396ad2462082c0619;hpb=eb57d9b750125f491db17e38ac5de1b514d6a337;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/fm10k.rst b/doc/guides/nics/fm10k.rst index 2d1b6b734b..7fc486248d 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/fm10k.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/fm10k.rst @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ .. BSD LICENSE - Copyright(c) 2015 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. + Copyright(c) 2015-2016 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without @@ -34,6 +34,20 @@ FM10K Poll Mode Driver The FM10K poll mode driver library provides support for the Intel FM10000 (FM10K) family of 40GbE/100GbE adapters. +FTAG Based Forwarding of FM10K +------------------------------ + +FTAG Based Forwarding is a unique feature of FM10K. The FM10K family of NICs +support the addition of a Fabric Tag (FTAG) to carry special information. +The FTAG is placed at the beginning of the frame, it contains information +such as where the packet comes from and goes, and the vlan tag. In FTAG based +forwarding mode, the switch logic forwards packets according to glort (global +resource tag) information, rather than the mac and vlan table. Currently this +feature works only on PF. + +To enable this feature, the user should pass a devargs parameter to the eal +like "-w 84:00.0,enable_ftag=1", and the application should make sure an +appropriate FTAG is inserted for every frame on TX side. Vector PMD for FM10K -------------------- @@ -143,10 +157,9 @@ Switch manager The Intel FM10000 family of NICs integrate a hardware switch and multiple host interfaces. The FM10000 PMD driver only manages host interfaces. For the switch component another switch driver has to be loaded prior to to the -FM10000 PMD driver. The switch driver can be acquired for Intel support or -from the `Match Interface `_ project. +FM10000 PMD driver. The switch driver can be acquired from Intel support. Only Testpoint is validated with DPDK, the latest version that has been -validated with DPDK2.2 is 4.1.6. +validated with DPDK is 4.1.6. CRC striping ~~~~~~~~~~~~