ENAv2 introduces many new features, bug fixes and improvements.
Main new features are LLQ (Low Latency Queues) and independent queues
reconfiguration using sysctl commands.
The year in copyright notice was updated to 2019.
Submitted by: Michal Krawczyk <mk@semihalf.com>
Obtained from: Semihalf
Sponsored by: Amazon, Inc.
ENA is a networking interface designed to make good use of modern CPU
features and system architectures.
The ENA device exposes a lightweight management interface with a
minimal set of memory mapped registers and extendable command set
through an Admin Queue.
The driver supports a range of ENA devices, is link-speed independent
(i.e., the same driver is used for 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, etc.), and has
a negotiated and extendable feature set.
Some ENA devices support SR-IOV. This driver is used for both the
SR-IOV Physical Function (PF) and Virtual Function (VF) devices.
ENA devices enable high speed and low overhead network traffic
processing by providing multiple Tx/Rx queue pairs (the maximum number
is advertised by the device via the Admin Queue), a dedicated MSI-X
interrupt vector per Tx/Rx queue pair, and CPU cacheline optimized
data placement.
The ENA driver supports industry standard TCP/IP offload features such
as checksum offload and TCP transmit segmentation offload (TSO).
Receive-side scaling (RSS) is supported for multi-core scaling.
The ENA driver and its corresponding devices implement health
monitoring mechanisms such as watchdog, enabling the device and driver
to recover in a manner transparent to the application, as well as
debug logs.
Some of the ENA devices support a working mode called Low-latency
Queue (LLQ), which saves several more microseconds. This feature will
be implemented for driver in future releases.
Submitted by: Michal Krawczyk <mk@semihalf.com>
Jakub Palider <jpa@semihalf.com>
Jan Medala <jan@semihalf.com>
Obtained from: Semihalf
Sponsored by: Amazon.com Inc.
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10427
