This change enables device LRO if requested.
The current implementation of jumbo frame Rx can be used for LRO
directly without changes.
Note that since jumbo frame uses both ring0 and ring1, it cannot
be enabled in UPT (VMDirectPath) mode.
Signed-off-by: Yong Wang <yongwang@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
As discussed in the past release, driver names are modified
to be more consistent, and the future driver should follow
this new convention.
Driver names consist of:
"driver category"_"driver folder name"_"optional extra name".
For example:
- Crypto null driver -> "crypto_null"
- Network IXGBE VF driver -> "net_ixgbe_vf"
Signed-off-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
Convert the NIC feature table in the overview doc into a set of ini
files and add functions into the Sphinx conf.py file to auto-generate
them back into an RST table.
The reason for doing this is to make it easier for PMD maintainers to
update the feature matrix that makes up the table and to avoid
frequent and hard to resolve conflicts in doc/guides/nics/overview.rst.
A NIC/PMD feature matrix is now an ini file like the following:
$ head doc/guides/nics/nic_features/i40e.ini
;
; Features of the i40e network driver.
;
[Features]
Link status = Y
Link status event = Y
Rx interrupt = Y
Queue start/stop = Y
...
The output RST table matches the existing table with the column
headers sorted.
Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Tested-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
The following tools may be installed system-wide.
It may be cleaner and more convenient to find them with the same
dpdk- prefix (especially for autocompletion).
Moreover, the script dpdk_nic_bind.py deserves a new name because it is
not restricted to NICs and can be used for e.g. crypto.
These files are renamed:
pmdinfogen -> dpdk-pmdinfogen
pmdinfo.py -> dpdk-pmdinfo.py
dpdk_pdump -> dpdk-pdump
dpdk_proc_info -> dpdk-procinfo
dpdk_nic_bind.py -> dpdk-devbind.py
setup.sh -> dpdk-setup.sh
The tools pmdinfogen, pmdinfo.py and dpdk_pdump are new in 16.07.
The scripts dpdk_nic_bind.py and setup.sh may have been used with
previous releases by end users. That's why a symbolic link still
provide the old name in the installed tools directory.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
This patch explains current virtio PMD Rx/Tx callbacks, to help understand
what's the difference, and how to enable the right ones.
Signed-off-by: Zhihong Wang <zhihong.wang@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Acked-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
This patch adds support for extended statistics for BNX2X PMD.
Signed-off-by: Rasesh Mody <rasesh.mody@qlogic.com>
Acked-by: Remy Horton <remy.horton@intel.com>
This patch adds support for extended statistics for QEDE PMD.
Signed-off-by: Rasesh Mody <rasesh.mody@qlogic.com>
Acked-by: Remy Horton <remy.horton@intel.com>
The standard Virtual Ethernet Bridge(VEB) definition in 1Qbg is a bridge
which has an uplink port to the outside world (maybe another bridge), but
a "floating" VEB is a special VEB without an uplink port to the outside.
Instead, traffic can be sent from one VF to another using the floating
VEB - even when the physical link on the NIC port is down.
This patch adds floating VEB options in the devargs for i40e driver.
Using these parameters, applications can decide whether to use legacy
VEB/VEPA or a floating VEB.
To enable this feature, the user should pass a devargs parameter to the
EAL, for example "-w 84:00.0,enable_floating_veb=1", to control whether
the PMD will to use the floating VEB feature or not.
Once the floating VEB feature is enabled, all the VFs created by
this PF device are connected to the floating VEB.
NOTE: The floating VEB functionality requires a NIC firmware version
of 5.0 or greater.
Signed-off-by: Zhe Tao <zhe.tao@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Provide an update MTU callback. The function returns -ENOTSUP
if Rx scatter is enabled. Updating the MTU to be greater than
the value configured via the Cisco CIMC/UCSM management interface
is allowed provided it is still less than the maximum egress packet
size allowed by the NIC minus the size of the L2 header.
Signed-off-by: John Daley <johndale@cisco.com>
This feature enables the TX burst function to emit up to 5 packets using
only two work queue entries (WQEs) on devices that support it. Saves PCI
bandwidth and improves performance.
Signed-off-by: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: Olga Shern <olgas@mellanox.com>
Implement send inline feature which copies packet data directly into
work queue entries (WQEs) for improved latency. The maximum packet
size and the minimum number of Tx queues to qualify for inline send
are user-configurable.
This feature is effective when HW causes a performance bottleneck.
Signed-off-by: Yaacov Hazan <yaacovh@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>
Mini (compressed) completion queue entries (CQEs) are returned by the
NIC when PCI back pressure is detected, in which case the first CQE64
contains common packet information followed by a number of CQE8
providing the rest, followed by a matching number of empty CQE64
entries to be used by software for decompression.
Before decompression:
0 1 2 6 7 8
+-------+ +---------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+
| CQE64 | | CQE64 | | CQE64 | | CQE64 | | CQE64 | | CQE64 |
|-------| |---------| |-------| |-------| |-------| |-------|
| ..... | | cqe8[0] | | | . | | | | | ..... |
| ..... | | cqe8[1] | | | . | | | | | ..... |
| ..... | | ....... | | | . | | | | | ..... |
| ..... | | cqe8[7] | | | | | | | | ..... |
+-------+ +---------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+
After decompression:
0 1 ... 8
+-------+ +-------+ +-------+
| CQE64 | | CQE64 | | CQE64 |
|-------| |-------| |-------|
| ..... | | ..... | . | ..... |
| ..... | | ..... | . | ..... |
| ..... | | ..... | . | ..... |
| ..... | | ..... | | ..... |
+-------+ +-------+ +-------+
This patch does not perform the entire decompression step as it would be
really expensive, instead the first CQE64 is consumed and an internal
context is maintained to interpret the following CQE8 entries directly.
Intermediate empty CQE64 entries are handed back to HW without further
processing.
Signed-off-by: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: Olga Shern <olgas@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Philipov <vasilyf@mellanox.com>
The latest version of Mellanox OFED exposes hardware definitions necessary
to implement data path operation bypassing Verbs. Update the minimum
version requirement to MLNX_OFED >= 3.3 and clean up compatibility checks
for previous releases.
Signed-off-by: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
Inline TX will be fully managed by the PMD after Verbs is bypassed in the
data path. Remove the current code until then.
Signed-off-by: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
There is no scatter/gather support anymore, CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_MLX5_SGE_WR_N
has no purpose and can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
Removing dependency on nfp_uio kernel module. The igb_uio
kernel modules can be used instead.
Fixes: 80bc1752f16e ("nfp: add guide")
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Lucero <alejandro.lucero@netronome.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
For performance reasons, this patch uses 2 VIC RQs per RQ presented to
DPDK.
The VIC requires that each descriptor be marked as either a start of
packet (SOP) descriptor or a non-SOP descriptor. A one RQ solution
requires skipping descriptors when receiving small packets and results
in bad performance when receiving many small packets.
The 2 RQ solution makes use of the VIC feature that allows a receive
on primary queue to 'spill over' into another queue if the receive is
too large to fit in the buffer assigned to the descriptor on the
primary queue. This means that there is no skipping of descriptors
when receiving small packets and results in much better performance.
Signed-off-by: Nelson Escobar <neescoba@cisco.com>
Reviewed-by: John Daley <johndale@cisco.com>
- Add device id to the PCI table
- Add polling for the slowpath events for CMT mode device
- Add prerequisites to allow 100g mode
* Min number of queues needed is 2
* Only even number of queues are allowed
- Update documentation
Signed-off-by: Harish Patil <harish.patil@qlogic.com>
Add support for setting hash configuration based on adapter capability
and update corresponding NIC documentation.
Signed-off-by: Sony Chacko <sony.chacko@qlogic.com>
Intel stopped supporting Match Interface, remove reference to it in the
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Chen Jing D(Mark) <jing.d.chen@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Updated doc/guides/nics/overview.rst, doc/guides/nics/thunderx.rst
and release notes
Changed "*" to "P" in overview.rst to capture the partially supported
feature as "*" creating alignment issues with Sphinx table
Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Slawomir Rosek <slawomir.rosek@semihalf.com>
Signed-off-by: Maciej Czekaj <maciej.czekaj@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
This patch adds the initial skeleton for bnxt driver along with the
nic guide, and ties the driver into the build system.
At this point, the driver simply fails init.
Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hurd <stephen.hurd@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: David Christensen <david.christensen@broadcom.com>
[Release Note Addition]
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Use ARM NEON intrinsic to implement ixgbe vPMD
Signed-off-by: Jianbo Liu <jianbo.liu@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
[style fixes as highlighted by checkpatch.pl]
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
The Qlogic Everest Driver for Ethernet(QEDE) Poll Mode Driver(PMD) is
the DPDK specific module for QLogic FastLinQ QL4xxxx 25G/40G CNA family
of adapters as well as their virtual functions (VF) in SR-IOV context.
This patch adds QEDE PMD, which interacts with base driver and
initialises the HW.
This patch content also includes:
- eth_dev_ops callbacks
- Rx/Tx support for the driver
- link default configuration
- change link property
- link up/down/update notifications
- vlan offload and filtering capability
- device/function/port statistics
- qede nic guide and updated overview.rst
Note that the follow on commits contain the code for the features mentioned
in documents but not implemented in this patch.
Signed-off-by: Harish Patil <harish.patil@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Rasesh Mody <rasesh.mody@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Sony Chacko <sony.chacko@qlogic.com>
Changed symbol on NIC overview table from X to Y to help
clarify the indicated features are supported. The X caused
confusion for some readers.
Also, added * character to indicate partially supported
features. This can be used in the future to direct the reader
to more specific details in the individual NIC guides.
Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Enable "other kdrv" because both NICs require kernel support to work.
Unicast and multicast MAC filters are also enabled as both address types can
be filtered on through the MAC add/remove/set callbacks.
Fixes: e86b85ca757b ("doc: fill nics features matrix for mlx")
Signed-off-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
Fixes: 83a4a15404ef ("doc: fill nics features matrix for e1000/igb and ixgbe")
Reported-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: Wenzhuo Lu <wenzhuo.lu@intel.com>
Note: virtio is a para-virtualization device, which indicates that its
features depend on not only front end but also back end. Here by X, we
just mean the feature is supported in front end.
Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
The link speed configuration is now done with bitmaps so 100G speed
requires only a new bit flag.
The actual link speed is a number so its size must be increased from
16-bit to 32-bit.
Signed-off-by: Marc Sune <marcdevel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Tested-by: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>
Tested-by: Matej Vido <vido@cesnet.cz>
The speed capabilities of a device can be retrieved with
rte_eth_dev_info_get().
The new field speed_capa is initialized in the drivers without
taking care of device characteristics in this patch.
When the capabilities of a driver are accurate, the table in
overview.rst must be filled.
Signed-off-by: Marc Sune <marcdevel@gmail.com>
VLAN insertion can be done in hardware when supported in Verbs. A software
fallback is provided otherwise. The software implementation is also used
when multi-packet send is enabled on a queue, as both features are mutually
exclusive.
Signed-off-by: Yaacov Hazan <yaacovh@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>