X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Fnics%2Fixgbe.rst;h=b82e634382851acac0cccc17349bbc3a13054be2;hb=e32b525aae84023292edf5d2ef2fb78cc340ef14;hp=c637bb351c6ff867d9352cff73d7f2661291b4f8;hpb=e435197a5fc28e725c71c12893b64626c8d32c09;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst b/doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst index c637bb351c..b82e634382 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst @@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ There is no change to PMD API. The RX/TX handler are the only two entries for vP They are transparently registered at runtime RX/TX execution if all condition checks pass. 1. To date, only an SSE version of IX GBE vPMD is available. - To ensure that vPMD is in the binary code, ensure that the option CONFIG_RTE_IXGBE_INC_VECTOR=y is in the configure file. Some constraints apply as pre-conditions for specific optimizations on bulk packet transfers. The following sections explain RX and TX constraints in the vPMD. @@ -68,20 +67,45 @@ Other features are supported using optional MACRO configuration. They include: * HW extend dual VLAN -To guarantee the constraint, configuration flags in dev_conf.rxmode will be checked: +To guarantee the constraint, capabilities in dev_conf.rxmode.offloads will be checked: -* hw_vlan_strip +* DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_VLAN_STRIP -* hw_vlan_extend +* DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_VLAN_EXTEND -* hw_ip_checksum +* DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_CHECKSUM -* header_split +* DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_HEADER_SPLIT * dev_conf fdir_conf->mode will also be checked. +VF Runtime Options +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +The following ``devargs`` options can be enabled at runtime. They must +be passed as part of EAL arguments. For example, + +.. code-block:: console + + dpdk-testpmd -a af:10.0,pflink_fullchk=1 -- -i + +- ``pflink_fullchk`` (default **0**) + + When calling ``rte_eth_link_get_nowait()`` to get VF link status, + this option is used to control how VF synchronizes its status with + PF's. If set, VF will not only check the PF's physical link status + by reading related register, but also check the mailbox status. We + call this behavior as fully checking. And checking mailbox will + trigger PF's mailbox interrupt generation. If unset, the application + can get the VF's link status quickly by just reading the PF's link + status register, this will avoid the whole system's mailbox interrupt + generation. + + ``rte_eth_link_get()`` will still use the mailbox method regardless + of the pflink_fullchk setting. + RX Burst Size ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ @@ -119,13 +143,13 @@ l3fwd ~~~~~ When running l3fwd with vPMD, there is one thing to note. -In the configuration, ensure that port_conf.rxmode.hw_ip_checksum=0. +In the configuration, ensure that DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_CHECKSUM in port_conf.rxmode.offloads is NOT set. Otherwise, by default, RX vPMD is disabled. load_balancer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -As in the case of l3fwd, set configure port_conf.rxmode.hw_ip_checksum=0 to enable vPMD. +As in the case of l3fwd, to enable vPMD, do NOT set DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_CHECKSUM in port_conf.rxmode.offloads. In addition, for improved performance, use -bsz "(32,32),(64,64),(32,32)" in load_balancer to avoid using the default burst size of 144. @@ -200,6 +224,48 @@ There is no RTE API to add a VF's MAC address from the PF. On ixgbe, the ``rte_eth_dev_mac_addr_add()`` function can be used to add a VF's MAC address, as a workaround. +X550 does not support legacy interrupt mode +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Description +^^^^^^^^^^^ +X550 cannot get interrupts if using ``uio_pci_generic`` module or using legacy +interrupt mode of ``igb_uio`` or ``vfio``. Because the errata of X550 states +that the Interrupt Status bit is not implemented. The errata is the item #22 +from `X550 spec update `_ + +Implication +^^^^^^^^^^^ +When using ``uio_pci_generic`` module or using legacy interrupt mode of +``igb_uio`` or ``vfio``, the Interrupt Status bit would be checked if the +interrupt is coming. Since the bit is not implemented in X550, the irq cannot +be handled correctly and cannot report the event fd to DPDK apps. Then apps +cannot get interrupts and ``dmesg`` will show messages like ``irq #No.: `` +``nobody cared.`` + +Workaround +^^^^^^^^^^ +Do not bind the ``uio_pci_generic`` module in X550 NICs. +Do not bind ``igb_uio`` with legacy mode in X550 NICs. +Before binding ``vfio`` with legacy mode in X550 NICs, use ``modprobe vfio `` +``nointxmask=1`` to load ``vfio`` module if the intx is not shared with other +devices. + +RSS isn't supported when QinQ is enabled +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Due to FW limitation, IXGBE doesn't support RSS when QinQ is enabled currently. + +UDP with zero checksum is reported as error +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Intel 82599 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller Specification Update (Revision 2.87) +Errata: 44 Integrity Error Reported for IPv4/UDP Packets With Zero Checksum + +To support UDP zero checksum, the zero and bad UDP checksum packet is marked as +PKT_RX_L4_CKSUM_UNKNOWN, so the application needs to recompute the checksum to +validate it. Inline crypto processing support -------------------------------- @@ -226,7 +292,7 @@ option ``representor`` the user can specify which virtual functions to create port representors for on initialization of the PF PMD by passing the VF IDs of the VFs which are required.:: - -w DBDF,representor=[0,1,4] + -a DBDF,representor=[0,1,4] Currently hot-plugging of representor ports is not supported so all required representors must be specified on the creation of the PF.