freebsd-dev/share/man/man4/mlx5ib.4
Hans Petter Selasky 1251590741 Add new mlx5ib(4) driver to the kernel source tree which supports
Remote DMA over Converged Ethernet, RoCE, for the ConnectX-4 series of
PCI express network cards.

There is currently no user-space support and this driver only supports
kernel side non-routable RoCE V1. The krping kernel module can be used
to test this driver. Full user-space support including RoCE V2 will be
added as part of the ongoing upgrade to ibcore from Linux 4.9. Otherwise
this driver is feature equivalent to mlx4ib(4). The mlx5ib(4) kernel
module will only be built when WITH_OFED=YES is specified.

MFC after:		2 weeks
Sponsored by:		Mellanox Technologies
2017-08-23 12:09:37 +00:00

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.Dd August 23, 2017
.Dt MLX5IB 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm mlx5ib
.Nd "Mellanox ConnectX-4 and ConnectX-4 LX based 100Gb, 50Gb, 40Gb, 25Gb and 10Gb network adapter driver"
.Sh SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel,
place these lines in your kernel configuration file:
.Bd -ragged -offset indent
.Cd "options COMPAT_LINUXKPI"
.Cd "device mlx5"
.Cd "device mlx5ib"
.Ed
.Pp
To load the driver as a module at run-time,
run this command as root:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
kldload mlx5ib
.Ed
.Pp
To load the driver as a
module at boot time, place this line in
.Xr loader.conf 5 :
.Bd -literal -offset indent
mlx5ib_load="YES"
.Ed
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
driver provides support for infiniband and Remote DMA over Converged Ethernet,
RoCE, for PCI Express network adapters based on ConnectX-4 and ConnectX-4 LX.
.br
For further hardware information and questions related to hardware
requirements, see
.Pa http://www.mellanox.com/ .
.Pp
For more information on configuring this device, see
.Xr ifconfig 8 .
.Sh HARDWARE
The
.Nm
driver supports 100Gb, 50Gb, 40Gb, 25Gb and 10Gb network adapters.
ConnectX-4 supports: 10/20/25/40/50/56/100Gb/s speeds.
ConnectX-4 LX supports: 10/25/40/50Gb/s speeds (and reduced power consumption):
.Pp
.Bl -bullet -compact
.It
Mellanox MCX455A-ECAT
.It
Mellanox MCX456A-ECAT
.It
Mellanox MCX415A-CCAT
.It
Mellanox MCX416A-CCAT
.It
Mellanox MCX455A-FCAT
.It
Mellanox MCX456A-FCAT
.It
Mellanox MCX415A-BCAT
.It
Mellanox MCX416A-BCAT
.It
Mellanox MCX4131A-GCAT
.It
Mellanox MCX4131A-BCAT
.It
Mellanox MCX4121A-ACAT
.It
Mellanox MCX4111A-ACAT
.It
Mellanox MCX4121A-XCAT
.It
Mellanox MCX4111A-XCAT
.El
.Sh SUPPORT
For general information and support,
go to the Mellanox support website at:
.Pa http://www.mellanox.com/ .
.Pp
If an issue is identified with this driver with a supported adapter,
email all the specific information related to the issue to
.Aq Mt freebsd-drivers@mellanox.com .
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr mlx5en 4 ,
.Xr ifconfig 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
device driver first appeared in
.Fx 12.x .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
The
.Nm
driver was written by
.An Mellanox Technologies <freebsd-drivers@mellanox.com> .