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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
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Copyright(c) 2017 Cavium, Inc
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OCTEON TX Poll Mode driver
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==========================
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The OCTEON TX ETHDEV PMD (**librte_net_octeontx**) provides poll mode ethdev
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driver support for the inbuilt network device found in the **Cavium OCTEON TX**
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SoC family as well as their virtual functions (VF) in SR-IOV context.
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More information can be found at `Cavium, Inc Official Website
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<http://www.cavium.com/OCTEON-TX_ARM_Processors.html>`_.
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Features
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--------
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Features of the OCTEON TX Ethdev PMD are:
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- Packet type information
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- Promiscuous mode
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- Port hardware statistics
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- Jumbo frames
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- Scatter-Gather IO support
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- Link state information
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- MAC/VLAN filtering
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- MTU update
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- SR-IOV VF
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- Multiple queues for TX
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- Lock-free Tx queue
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- HW offloaded `ethdev Rx queue` to `eventdev event queue` packet injection
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Supported OCTEON TX SoCs
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------------------------
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- CN83xx
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Unsupported features
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--------------------
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The features supported by the device and not yet supported by this PMD include:
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- Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
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- Scattered and gather for TX and RX
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- Ingress classification support
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- Egress hierarchical scheduling, traffic shaping, and marking
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Prerequisites
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-------------
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See :doc:`../platform/octeontx` for setup information.
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Pre-Installation Configuration
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------------------------------
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Driver compilation and testing
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Refer to the document :ref:`compiling and testing a PMD for a NIC <pmd_build_and_test>`
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for details.
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#. Running testpmd:
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Follow instructions available in the document
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:ref:`compiling and testing a PMD for a NIC <pmd_build_and_test>`
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to run testpmd.
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Example output:
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.. code-block:: console
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./<build_dir>/app/dpdk-testpmd -c 700 \
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--base-virtaddr=0x100000000000 \
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--mbuf-pool-ops-name="octeontx_fpavf" \
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--vdev='event_octeontx' \
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--vdev='eth_octeontx,nr_port=2' \
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-- --rxq=1 --txq=1 --nb-core=2 \
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--total-num-mbufs=16384 -i
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.....
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EAL: Detected 24 lcore(s)
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EAL: Probing VFIO support...
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EAL: VFIO support initialized
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.....
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EAL: PCI device 0000:07:00.1 on NUMA socket 0
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EAL: probe driver: 177d:a04b octeontx_ssovf
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.....
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EAL: PCI device 0001:02:00.7 on NUMA socket 0
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EAL: probe driver: 177d:a0dd octeontx_pkivf
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.....
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EAL: PCI device 0001:03:01.0 on NUMA socket 0
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EAL: probe driver: 177d:a049 octeontx_pkovf
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.....
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PMD: octeontx_probe(): created ethdev eth_octeontx for port 0
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PMD: octeontx_probe(): created ethdev eth_octeontx for port 1
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.....
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Configuring Port 0 (socket 0)
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Port 0: 00:0F:B7:11:94:46
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Configuring Port 1 (socket 0)
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Port 1: 00:0F:B7:11:94:47
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.....
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Checking link statuses...
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Port 0 Link Up - speed 40000 Mbps - full-duplex
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Port 1 Link Up - speed 40000 Mbps - full-duplex
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Done
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testpmd>
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Initialization
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--------------
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The OCTEON TX ethdev pmd is exposed as a vdev device which consists of a set
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of PKI and PKO PCIe VF devices. On EAL initialization,
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PKI/PKO PCIe VF devices will be probed and then the vdev device can be created
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from the application code, or from the EAL command line based on
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the number of probed/bound PKI/PKO PCIe VF device to DPDK by
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* Invoking ``rte_vdev_init("eth_octeontx")`` from the application
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* Using ``--vdev="eth_octeontx"`` in the EAL options, which will call
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rte_vdev_init() internally
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Device arguments
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Each ethdev port is mapped to a physical port(LMAC), Application can specify
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the number of interesting ports with ``nr_ports`` argument.
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Dependency
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~~~~~~~~~~
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``eth_octeontx`` pmd is depend on ``event_octeontx`` eventdev device and
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``octeontx_fpavf`` external mempool handler.
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Example:
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.. code-block:: console
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./your_dpdk_application --mbuf-pool-ops-name="octeontx_fpavf" \
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--vdev='event_octeontx' \
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--vdev="eth_octeontx,nr_port=2"
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Limitations
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``octeontx_fpavf`` external mempool handler dependency
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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The OCTEON TX SoC family NIC has inbuilt HW assisted external mempool manager.
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This driver will only work with ``octeontx_fpavf`` external mempool handler
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as it is the most performance effective way for packet allocation and Tx buffer
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recycling on OCTEON TX SoC platform.
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CRC stripping
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The OCTEON TX SoC family NICs strip the CRC for every packets coming into the
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host interface irrespective of the offload configuration.
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Maximum packet length
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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The OCTEON TX SoC family NICs support a maximum of a 32K jumbo frame. The value
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is fixed and cannot be changed. So, even when the ``rxmode.max_rx_pkt_len``
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member of ``struct rte_eth_conf`` is set to a value lower than 32k, frames
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up to 32k bytes can still reach the host interface.
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Maximum mempool size
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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The maximum mempool size supplied to Rx queue setup should be less than 128K.
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When running testpmd on OCTEON TX the application can limit the number of mbufs
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by using the option ``--total-num-mbufs=131072``.
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