Qi Zhang 603beeb970 net/ice: add safe mode devarg
When OS package is not provided driver silently goes into safe mode,
since safe mode is missing most of advanced features, this may confuse
the users.

Instead of going into safe mode silently, add devarg for safe mode
enabling only for users that are asking for it.

Signed-off-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Qiming Yang <qiming.yang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ray Kinsella <ray.kinsella@intel.com>
2019-07-23 14:31:34 +02:00

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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
Copyright(c) 2018 Intel Corporation.
ICE Poll Mode Driver
======================
The ice PMD (librte_pmd_ice) provides poll mode driver support for
10/25 Gbps Intel® Ethernet 810 Series Network Adapters based on
the Intel Ethernet Controller E810.
Prerequisites
-------------
- Identifying your adapter using `Intel Support
<http://www.intel.com/support>`_ and get the latest NVM/FW images.
- Follow the DPDK :ref:`Getting Started Guide for Linux <linux_gsg>` to setup the basic DPDK environment.
- To get better performance on Intel platforms, please follow the "How to get best performance with NICs on Intel platforms"
section of the :ref:`Getting Started Guide for Linux <linux_gsg>`.
Pre-Installation Configuration
------------------------------
Config File Options
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The following options can be modified in the ``config`` file.
Please note that enabling debugging options may affect system performance.
- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_ICE_PMD`` (default ``y``)
Toggle compilation of the ``librte_pmd_ice`` driver.
- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_ICE_DEBUG_*`` (default ``n``)
Toggle display of generic debugging messages.
- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_ICE_RX_ALLOW_BULK_ALLOC`` (default ``y``)
Toggle bulk allocation for RX.
- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_ICE_16BYTE_RX_DESC`` (default ``n``)
Toggle to use a 16-byte RX descriptor, by default the RX descriptor is 32 byte.
Runtime Config Options
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- ``Safe Mode Support`` (default ``0``)
If driver failed to load OS package, by default driver's initialization failed.
But if user intend to use the device without OS package, user can take ``devargs``
parameter ``safe-mode-support``, for example::
-w 80:00.0,safe-mode-support=1
Then the driver will be initialized successfully and the device will enter Safe Mode.
NOTE: In Safe mode, only very limited features are available, features like RSS,
checksum, fdir, tunneling ... are all disabled.
Driver compilation and testing
------------------------------
Refer to the document :ref:`compiling and testing a PMD for a NIC <pmd_build_and_test>`
for details.
Features
--------
Vector PMD
~~~~~~~~~~
Vector PMD for RX and TX path are selected automatically. The paths
are chosen based on 2 conditions.
- ``CPU``
On the X86 platform, the driver checks if the CPU supports AVX2.
If it's supported, AVX2 paths will be chosen. If not, SSE is chosen.
- ``Offload features``
The supported HW offload features are described in the document ice_vec.ini.
If any not supported features are used, ICE vector PMD is disabled and the
normal paths are chosen.
Malicious driver detection (MDD)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
It's not appropriate to send a packet, if this packet's destination MAC address
is just this port's MAC address. If SW tries to send such packets, HW will
report a MDD event and drop the packets.
The APPs based on DPDK should avoid providing such packets.
Sample Application Notes
------------------------
Vlan filter
~~~~~~~~~~~
Vlan filter only works when Promiscuous mode is off.
To start ``testpmd``, and add vlan 10 to port 0:
.. code-block:: console
./app/testpmd -l 0-15 -n 4 -- -i
...
testpmd> rx_vlan add 10 0
Limitations or Known issues
---------------------------
The Intel E810 requires a programmable pipeline package be downloaded
by the driver to support normal operations. The E810 has a limited
functionality built in to allow PXE boot and other use cases, but the
driver must download a package file during the driver initialization
stage. The file must be in the /lib/firmware/intel/ice/ddp directory
and it must be named ice.pkg. A symbolic link to this file is also ok.
The same package file is used by both the kernel driver and the DPDK PMD.
19.02 limitation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ice code released in 19.02 is for evaluation only.