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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/i40e.txt b/Documentation/networking/i40e.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c2d6e1824 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/i40e.txt @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +Linux Base Driver for the Intel(R) Ethernet Controller XL710 Family +=================================================================== + +Intel i40e Linux driver. +Copyright(c) 2013 Intel Corporation. + +Contents +======== + +- Identifying Your Adapter +- Additional Configurations +- Performance Tuning +- Known Issues +- Support + + +Identifying Your Adapter +======================== + +The driver in this release is compatible with the Intel Ethernet +Controller XL710 Family. + +For more information on how to identify your adapter, go to the Adapter & +Driver ID Guide at: + + http://support.intel.com/support/network/sb/CS-012904.htm + + +Enabling the driver +=================== + +The driver is enabled via the standard kernel configuration system, +using the make command: + + make config/oldconfig/menuconfig/etc. + +The driver is located in the menu structure at: + + -> Device Drivers + -> Network device support (NETDEVICES [=y]) + -> Ethernet driver support + -> Intel devices + -> Intel(R) Ethernet Controller XL710 Family + +Additional Configurations +========================= + + Generic Receive Offload (GRO) + ----------------------------- + The driver supports the in-kernel software implementation of GRO. GRO has + shown that by coalescing Rx traffic into larger chunks of data, CPU + utilization can be significantly reduced when under large Rx load. GRO is + an evolution of the previously-used LRO interface. GRO is able to coalesce + other protocols besides TCP. It's also safe to use with configurations that + are problematic for LRO, namely bridging and iSCSI. + + Ethtool + ------- + The driver utilizes the ethtool interface for driver configuration and + diagnostics, as well as displaying statistical information. The latest + ethtool version is required for this functionality. + + The latest release of ethtool can be found from + https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool + + + Flow Director n-ntuple traffic filters (FDir) + --------------------------------------------- + The driver utilizes the ethtool interface for configuring ntuple filters, + via "ethtool -N <device> <filter>". + + The sctp4, ip4, udp4, and tcp4 flow types are supported with the standard + fields including src-ip, dst-ip, src-port and dst-port. The driver only + supports fully enabling or fully masking the fields, so use of the mask + fields for partial matches is not supported. + + Additionally, the driver supports using the action to specify filters for a + Virtual Function. You can specify the action as a 64bit value, where the + lower 32 bits represents the queue number, while the next 8 bits represent + which VF. Note that 0 is the PF, so the VF identifier is offset by 1. For + example: + + ... action 0x800000002 ... + + Would indicate to direct traffic for Virtual Function 7 (8 minus 1) on queue + 2 of that VF. + + The driver also supports using the user-defined field to specify 2 bytes of + arbitrary data to match within the packet payload in addition to the regular + fields. The data is specified in the lower 32bits of the user-def field in + the following way: + + +----------------------------+---------------------------+ + | 31 28 24 20 16 | 15 12 8 4 0| + +----------------------------+---------------------------+ + | offset into packet payload | 2 bytes of flexible data | + +----------------------------+---------------------------+ + + As an example, + + ... user-def 0x4FFFF .... + + means to match the value 0xFFFF 4 bytes into the packet payload. Note that + the offset is based on the beginning of the payload, and not the beginning + of the packet. Thus + + flow-type tcp4 ... user-def 0x8BEAF .... + + would match TCP/IPv4 packets which have the value 0xBEAF 8bytes into the + TCP/IPv4 payload. + + For ICMP, the hardware parses the ICMP header as 4 bytes of header and 4 + bytes of payload, so if you want to match an ICMP frames payload you may need + to add 4 to the offset in order to match the data. + + Furthermore, the offset can only be up to a value of 64, as the hardware + will only read up to 64 bytes of data from the payload. It must also be even + as the flexible data is 2 bytes long and must be aligned to byte 0 of the + packet payload. + + When programming filters, the hardware is limited to using a single input + set for each flow type. This means that it is an error to program two + different filters with the same type that don't match on the same fields. + Thus the second of the following two commands will fail: + + ethtool -N <device> flow-type tcp4 src-ip 192.168.0.7 action 5 + ethtool -N <device> flow-type tcp4 dst-ip 192.168.15.18 action 1 + + This is because the first filter will be accepted and reprogram the input + set for TCPv4 filters, but the second filter will be unable to reprogram the + input set until all the conflicting TCPv4 filters are first removed. + + Note that the user-defined flexible offset is also considered part of the + input set and cannot be programmed separately for multiple filters of the + same type. However, the flexible data is not part of the input set and + multiple filters may use the same offset but match against different data. + + Data Center Bridging (DCB) + -------------------------- + DCB configuration is not currently supported. + + FCoE + ---- + The driver supports Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and Data Center + Bridging (DCB) functionality. Configuring DCB and FCoE is outside the scope + of this driver doc. Refer to http://www.open-fcoe.org/ for FCoE project + information and http://www.open-lldp.org/ or email list + e1000-eedc@lists.sourceforge.net for DCB information. + + MAC and VLAN anti-spoofing feature + ---------------------------------- + When a malicious driver attempts to send a spoofed packet, it is dropped by + the hardware and not transmitted. An interrupt is sent to the PF driver + notifying it of the spoof attempt. + + When a spoofed packet is detected the PF driver will send the following + message to the system log (displayed by the "dmesg" command): + + Spoof event(s) detected on VF (n) + + Where n=the VF that attempted to do the spoofing. + + +Performance Tuning +================== + +An excellent article on performance tuning can be found at: + +http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/2008/downloads/pdf/Thursday/Mark_Wagner.pdf + + +Known Issues +============ + + +Support +======= + +For general information, go to the Intel support website at: + + http://support.intel.com + +or the Intel Wired Networking project hosted by Sourceforge at: + + http://e1000.sourceforge.net + +If an issue is identified with the released source code on the supported +kernel with a supported adapter, email the specific information related +to the issue to e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net and copy +netdev@vger.kernel.org. |