numam-dpdk/doc/guides/vdpadevs/mlx5.rst
Xueming Li 476048d546 vdpa/mlx5: make statistics counter persistent
In order to speed-up the device suspend and resume, make the statistics
counters persistent in reconfiguration until the device gets removed.

Signed-off-by: Xueming Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
2022-05-09 21:39:58 +02:00

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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
Copyright 2019 Mellanox Technologies, Ltd
.. include:: <isonum.txt>
MLX5 vDPA Driver
================
The mlx5 vDPA (vhost data path acceleration) driver library
(**librte_vdpa_mlx5**) provides support for **Mellanox ConnectX-6**,
**Mellanox ConnectX-6 Dx** and **Mellanox BlueField** families of
10/25/40/50/100/200 Gb/s adapters as well as their virtual functions (VF) in
SR-IOV context.
.. note::
This driver is enabled automatically when using "meson" build system which
will detect dependencies.
See :doc:`../../platform/mlx5` guide for design details,
and which PMDs can be combined with vDPA PMD.
Supported NICs
--------------
* Mellanox\ |reg| ConnectX\ |reg|-6 200G MCX654106A-HCAT (2x200G)
* Mellanox\ |reg| ConnectX\ |reg|-6 Dx EN 25G MCX621102AN-ADAT (2x25G)
* Mellanox\ |reg| ConnectX\ |reg|-6 Dx EN 100G MCX623106AN-CDAT (2x100G)
* Mellanox\ |reg| ConnectX\ |reg|-6 Dx EN 200G MCX623105AN-VDAT (1x200G)
* Mellanox\ |reg| BlueField SmartNIC 25G MBF1M332A-ASCAT (2x25G)
Prerequisites
-------------
- Mellanox OFED version: **5.0**
See :ref:`mlx5 common prerequisites <mlx5_linux_prerequisites>` for more details.
Run-time configuration
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Driver options
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Please refer to :ref:`mlx5 common options <mlx5_common_driver_options>`
for an additional list of options shared with other mlx5 drivers.
- ``event_mode`` parameter [int]
- 0, Completion queue scheduling will be managed by a timer thread which
automatically adjusts its delays to the coming traffic rate.
- 1, Completion queue scheduling will be managed by a timer thread with fixed
delay time.
- 2, Completion queue scheduling will be managed by interrupts. Each CQ burst
arms the CQ in order to get an interrupt event in the next traffic burst.
- Default mode is 1.
- ``event_us`` parameter [int]
Per mode micro-seconds parameter - relevant only for event mode 0 and 1:
- 0, A nonzero value to set timer step in micro-seconds. The timer thread
dynamic delay change steps according to this value. Default value is 1us.
- 1, A value to set fixed timer delay in micro-seconds. Default value is 0us.
- ``no_traffic_time`` parameter [int]
A nonzero value defines the traffic off time, in polling cycle time units,
that moves the driver to no-traffic mode. In this mode the polling is stopped
and interrupts are configured to the device in order to notify traffic for the
driver. Default value is 16.
- ``event_core`` parameter [int]
CPU core number to set polling thread affinity to, default to control plane
cpu.
- ``hw_latency_mode`` parameter [int]
The completion queue moderation mode:
- 0, HW default.
- 1, Latency is counted from the first packet completion report.
- 2, Latency is counted from the last packet completion.
- ``hw_max_latency_us`` parameter [int]
- 1 - 4095, The maximum time in microseconds that packet completion report
can be delayed.
- 0, HW default.
- ``hw_max_pending_comp`` parameter [int]
- 1 - 65535, The maximum number of pending packets completions in an HW queue.
- 0, HW default.
Error handling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Upon potential hardware errors, mlx5 PMD try to recover, give up if failed 3
times in 3 seconds, virtq will be put in disable state. User should check log
to get error information, or query vdpa statistics counter to know error type
and count report.
Statistics
^^^^^^^^^^
The device statistics counter persists in reconfiguration until the device gets
removed. User can reset counters by calling function rte_vdpa_reset_stats().