X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Fnics%2Fsfc_efx.rst;h=cf1269cc031a8a2eacb1406a48876444bc7afc8b;hb=e77f5dc83decf2704ac356b0b6e9a23e5cc3680b;hp=0e32d0c6d94ad8008c6229f5c64dd11936cec966;hpb=e30f1081c22f3b20d60a9b72ae8625cbfa69763d;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst b/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst index 0e32d0c6d9..cf1269cc03 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/sfc_efx.rst @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ .. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause - Copyright(c) 2019-2020 Xilinx, Inc. + Copyright(c) 2019-2021 Xilinx, Inc. Copyright(c) 2016-2019 Solarflare Communications Inc. This software was jointly developed between OKTET Labs (under contract @@ -8,9 +8,10 @@ Solarflare libefx-based Poll Mode Driver ======================================== -The SFC EFX PMD (**librte_pmd_sfc_efx**) provides poll mode driver support -for **Solarflare SFN7xxx and SFN8xxx** family of 10/40 Gbps adapters and -**Solarflare XtremeScale X2xxx** family of 10/25/40/50/100 Gbps adapters. +The SFC EFX PMD (**librte_net_sfc_efx**) provides poll mode driver support +for **Solarflare SFN7xxx and SFN8xxx** family of 10/40 Gbps adapters, +**Solarflare XtremeScale X2xxx** family of 10/25/40/50/100 Gbps adapters and +**Alveo SN1000 SmartNICs** family of 10/25/40/50/100 Gbps adapters. SFC EFX PMD has support for the latest Linux and FreeBSD operating systems. More information can be found at `Solarflare Communications website @@ -143,8 +144,9 @@ Flow API support Supported attributes: - Ingress +- Transfer -Supported pattern items: +Supported pattern items (***non-transfer*** rules): - VOID @@ -172,7 +174,7 @@ Supported pattern items: - NVGRE (exact match of virtual subnet ID) -Supported actions: +Supported actions (***non-transfer*** rules): - VOID @@ -186,10 +188,66 @@ Supported actions: - MARK (supported only with ef10_essb Rx datapath) +Supported pattern items (***transfer*** rules): + +- PORT_ID (cannot repeat; conflicts with other traffic source items) + +- PHY_PORT (cannot repeat; conflicts with other traffic source items) + +- PF (cannot repeat; conflicts with other traffic source items) + +- VF (cannot repeat; conflicts with other traffic source items) + +- ETH + +- VLAN (double-tagging is supported) + +- IPV4 (source/destination addresses, IP transport protocol, + type of service, time to live) + +- IPV6 (source/destination addresses, IP transport protocol, + traffic class, hop limit) + +- TCP (source/destination ports, TCP header length + TCP flags) + +- UDP (source/destination ports) + +- VXLAN (exact match of VXLAN network identifier) + +- GENEVE (exact match of virtual network identifier) + +- NVGRE (exact match of virtual subnet ID) + +Supported actions (***transfer*** rules): + +- OF_POP_VLAN + +- OF_PUSH_VLAN + +- OF_VLAN_SET_VID + +- OF_VLAN_SET_PCP + +- FLAG + +- MARK + +- PHY_PORT + +- PF + +- VF + +- PORT_ID + +- DROP + Validating flow rules depends on the firmware variant. The :ref:`flow_isolated_mode` is supported. +The implementation is natively thread-safe. + Ethernet destination individual/group match ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -219,6 +277,10 @@ conditions is met: Supported NICs -------------- +- Xilinx Adapters: + + - Alveo SN1022 SmartNIC + - Solarflare XtremeScale Adapters: - Solarflare X2522 Dual Port SFP28 10/25GbE Adapter @@ -290,11 +352,19 @@ Per-Device Parameters ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The following per-device parameters can be passed via EAL PCI device -whitelist option like "-w 02:00.0,arg1=value1,...". +allow option like "-a 02:00.0,arg1=value1,...". Case-insensitive 1/y/yes/on or 0/n/no/off may be used to specify boolean parameters value. +- ``class`` [net|vdpa] (default **net**) + + Choose the mode of operation of ef100 device. + **net** device will work as network device and will be probed by net/sfc driver. + **vdpa** device will work as vdpa device and will be probed by vdpa/sfc driver. + If this parameter is not specified then ef100 device will operate as + network device. + - ``rx_datapath`` [auto|efx|ef10|ef10_essb] (default **auto**) Choose receive datapath implementation. @@ -329,7 +399,8 @@ boolean parameters value. is even more faster then **ef10** but does not support multi-segment mbufs, disallows multiple mempools and neglects mbuf reference counters. **ef100** chooses EF100 native datapath which supports multi-segment - mbufs, IPv4 and TCP/UDP checksum offloads. + mbufs, VLAN insertion, inner/outer IPv4 and TCP/UDP checksum and TCP + segmentation offloads including VXLAN and GENEVE IPv4/IPv6 tunnels. - ``perf_profile`` [auto|throughput|low-latency] (default **throughput**) @@ -350,10 +421,11 @@ boolean parameters value. - ``fw_variant`` [dont-care|full-feature|ultra-low-latency| capture-packed-stream|dpdk] (default **dont-care**) - Choose the preferred firmware variant to use. In order for the selected - option to have an effect, the **sfboot** utility must be configured with the - **auto** firmware-variant option. The preferred firmware variant applies to - all ports on the NIC. + Choose the preferred firmware variant to use. + The parameter is supported for SFN7xxX, SFN8xxx and X2xxx families only. + In order for the selected option to have an effect, the **sfboot** utility + must be configured with the **auto** firmware-variant option. + The preferred firmware variant applies to all ports on the NIC. **dont-care** ensures that the driver can attach to an unprivileged function. The datapath firmware type to use is controlled by the **sfboot** utility.