freebsd-nq/share/man/man4/mlx5en.4
Hans Petter Selasky 38535d6cab Add support for hardware rate limiting to mlx5en(4).
The hardware rate limiting feature is enabled by the RATELIMIT kernel
option. Please refer to ifconfig(8) and the txrtlmt option and the
SO_MAX_PACING_RATE set socket option for more information. This
feature is compatible with hardware transmit send offload, TSO.

A set of sysctl(8) knobs under dev.mce.<N>.rate_limit are provided to
setup the ratelimit table and also to fine tune various rate limit
related parameters.

Sponsored by:	Mellanox Technologies
2018-05-29 14:04:57 +00:00

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.Dd May 29, 2018
.Dt MLX5EN 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm mlx5en
.Nd "Mellanox ConnectX-4, ConnectX-4 LX and ConnectX-5 based 100Gb, 50Gb, 40Gb, 25Gb and 10Gb Ethernet adapter driver"
.Sh SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel,
place the following lines in your
kernel configuration file:
.Bd -ragged -offset indent
.Cd "options COMPAT_LINUXKPI"
.Cd "options RATELIMIT"
.Cd "device mlx5"
.Cd "device mlx5en"
.Ed
.Pp
To load the driver as a module at run-time,
run the following command as root:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
kldload mlx5en
.Ed
.Pp
To load the driver as a
module at boot time, place the following lines in
.Xr loader.conf 5 :
.Bd -literal -offset indent
mlx5en_load="YES"
.Ed
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
driver provides support for PCI Express Ethernet adapters based on
ConnectX-4, ConnectX-4 LX and ConnectX-5.
The driver supports Jumbo Frames, Transmit/Receive checksum offload,
TCP segmentation offload (TSO), Large Receive Offload (LRO),
HW Large Receive Offload (HW LRO), VLAN tag insertion/extraction,
VLAN checksum offload, VLAN TSO, hardware rate limiting (TXRTLMT)
and Receive Side Steering (RSS).
.br
The network interface is named mce.
.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 Ethernet adapters.
ConnectX-5 supports:10/20/25/40/50/56/100Gb/s speeds.
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 ifconfig 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
device driver first appeared in
.Fx 11.0 .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
The
.Nm
driver was written by
.An Mellanox Technologies <freebsd-drivers@mellanox.com> .