X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Fnics%2Fsfc_efx.rst;h=8e0782cdd1dc792b0ee2b65b163f1123abf9390c;hb=27cea11686ff;hp=31e86a7a5f5456a96534ef84ecb69e3690bb8300;hpb=c7cb2d7a5f2a7fdb1a7f35061992ab2945cc0b19;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst b/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst index 31e86a7a5f..8e0782cdd1 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst @@ -37,19 +37,153 @@ More information can be found at `Solarflare Communications website `_. +Features +-------- + +SFC EFX PMD has support for: + +- Multiple transmit and receive queues + +- Link state information including link status change interrupt + +- IPv4/IPv6 TCP/UDP transmit checksum offload + +- Inner IPv4/IPv6 TCP/UDP transmit checksum offload + +- Port hardware statistics + +- Extended statistics (see Solarflare Server Adapter User's Guide for + the statistics description) + +- Basic flow control + +- MTU update + +- Jumbo frames up to 9K + +- Promiscuous mode + +- Allmulticast mode + +- TCP segmentation offload (TSO) + +- Multicast MAC filter + +- IPv4/IPv6 TCP/UDP receive checksum offload + +- Inner IPv4/IPv6 TCP/UDP receive checksum offload + +- Received packet type information + +- Receive side scaling (RSS) + +- RSS hash + +- Scattered Rx DMA for packet that are larger that a single Rx descriptor + +- Deferred receive and transmit queue start + +- Transmit VLAN insertion (if running firmware variant supports it) + +- Flow API + + Non-supported Features ---------------------- The features not yet supported include: -- Link status change interrupt - - Receive queue interupts - Priority-based flow control - Loopback +- Configurable RX CRC stripping (always stripped) + +- Header split on receive + +- VLAN filtering + +- VLAN stripping + +- LRO + + +Limitations +----------- + +Due to requirements on receive buffer alignment and usage of the receive +buffer for the auxiliary packet information provided by the NIC up to +extra 269 (14 bytes prefix plus up to 255 bytes for end padding) bytes may be +required in the receive buffer. +It should be taken into account when mbuf pool for receive is created. + + +Tunnels support +--------------- + +NVGRE, VXLAN and GENEVE tunnels are supported on SFN8xxx family adapters +with full-feature firmware variant running. +**sfboot** should be used to configure NIC to run full-feature firmware variant. +See Solarflare Server Adapter User's Guide for details. + +SFN8xxx family adapters provide either inner or outer packet classes. +If adapter firmware advertises support for tunnels then the PMD +configures the hardware to report inner classes, and outer classes are +not reported in received packets. +However, for VXLAN and GENEVE tunnels the PMD does report UDP as the +outer layer 4 packet type. + +SFN8xxx family adapters report GENEVE packets as VXLAN. +If UDP ports are configured for only one tunnel type then it is safe to +treat VXLAN packet type indication as the corresponding UDP tunnel type. + + +Flow API support +---------------- + +Supported attributes: + +- Ingress + +Supported pattern items: + +- VOID + +- ETH (exact match of source/destination addresses, individual/group match + of destination address, EtherType) + +- VLAN (exact match of VID, double-tagging is supported) + +- IPV4 (exact match of source/destination addresses, + IP transport protocol) + +- IPV6 (exact match of source/destination addresses, + IP transport protocol) + +- TCP (exact match of source/destination ports) + +- UDP (exact match of source/destination ports) + +Supported actions: + +- VOID + +- QUEUE + +- RSS + +Validating flow rules depends on the firmware variant. + +Ethernet destinaton individual/group match +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Ethernet item supports I/G matching, if only the corresponding bit is set +in the mask of destination address. If destinaton address in the spec is +multicast, it matches all multicast (and broadcast) packets, oherwise it +matches unicast packets that are not filtered by other flow rules. + Supported NICs -------------- @@ -118,6 +252,56 @@ whitelist option like "-w 02:00.0,arg1=value1,...". Case-insensitive 1/y/yes/on or 0/n/no/off may be used to specify boolean parameters value. +- ``rx_datapath`` [auto|efx|ef10] (default **auto**) + + Choose receive datapath implementation. + **auto** allows the driver itself to make a choice based on firmware + features available and required by the datapath implementation. + **efx** chooses libefx-based datapath which supports Rx scatter. + **ef10** chooses EF10 (SFN7xxx, SFN8xxx) native datapath which is + more efficient than libefx-based and provides richer packet type + classification, but lacks Rx scatter support. + +- ``tx_datapath`` [auto|efx|ef10|ef10_simple] (default **auto**) + + Choose transmit datapath implementation. + **auto** allows the driver itself to make a choice based on firmware + features available and required by the datapath implementation. + **efx** chooses libefx-based datapath which supports VLAN insertion + (full-feature firmware variant only), TSO and multi-segment mbufs. + Mbuf segments may come from different mempools, and mbuf reference + counters are treated responsibly. + **ef10** chooses EF10 (SFN7xxx, SFN8xxx) native datapath which is + more efficient than libefx-based but has no VLAN insertion and TSO + support yet. + Mbuf segments may come from different mempools, and mbuf reference + counters are treated responsibly. + **ef10_simple** chooses EF10 (SFN7xxx, SFN8xxx) native datapath which + is even more faster then **ef10** but does not support multi-segment + mbufs, disallows multiple mempools and neglects mbuf reference counters. + +- ``perf_profile`` [auto|throughput|low-latency] (default **throughput**) + + Choose hardware tunning to be optimized for either throughput or + low-latency. + **auto** allows NIC firmware to make a choice based on + installed licences and firmware variant configured using **sfboot**. + - ``debug_init`` [bool] (default **n**) - Enable extra logging during device intialization and startup. + Enable extra logging during device initialization and startup. + +- ``mcdi_logging`` [bool] (default **n**) + + Enable extra logging of the communication with the NIC's management CPU. + The logging is done using RTE_LOG() with INFO level and PMD type. + The format is consumed by the Solarflare netlogdecode cross-platform tool. + +- ``stats_update_period_ms`` [long] (default **1000**) + + Adjust period in milliseconds to update port hardware statistics. + The accepted range is 0 to 65535. The value of **0** may be used + to disable periodic statistics update. One should note that it's + only possible to set an arbitrary value on SFN8xxx provided that + firmware version is 6.2.1.1033 or higher, otherwise any positive + value will select a fixed update period of **1000** milliseconds