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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-27 10:05:51 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-27 10:05:51 +0000 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/microsoft/netvsc.rst b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/microsoft/netvsc.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c3f51c672 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/microsoft/netvsc.rst @@ -0,0 +1,116 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +====================== +Hyper-V network driver +====================== + +Compatibility +============= + +This driver is compatible with Windows Server 2012 R2, 2016 and +Windows 10. + +Features +======== + +Checksum offload +---------------- + The netvsc driver supports checksum offload as long as the + Hyper-V host version does. Windows Server 2016 and Azure + support checksum offload for TCP and UDP for both IPv4 and + IPv6. Windows Server 2012 only supports checksum offload for TCP. + +Receive Side Scaling +-------------------- + Hyper-V supports receive side scaling. For TCP & UDP, packets can + be distributed among available queues based on IP address and port + number. + + For TCP & UDP, we can switch hash level between L3 and L4 by ethtool + command. TCP/UDP over IPv4 and v6 can be set differently. The default + hash level is L4. We currently only allow switching TX hash level + from within the guests. + + On Azure, fragmented UDP packets have high loss rate with L4 + hashing. Using L3 hashing is recommended in this case. + + For example, for UDP over IPv4 on eth0: + + To include UDP port numbers in hashing:: + + ethtool -N eth0 rx-flow-hash udp4 sdfn + + To exclude UDP port numbers in hashing:: + + ethtool -N eth0 rx-flow-hash udp4 sd + + To show UDP hash level:: + + ethtool -n eth0 rx-flow-hash udp4 + +Generic Receive Offload, aka GRO +-------------------------------- + The driver supports GRO and it is enabled by default. GRO coalesces + like packets and significantly reduces CPU usage under heavy Rx + load. + +Large Receive Offload (LRO), or Receive Side Coalescing (RSC) +------------------------------------------------------------- + The driver supports LRO/RSC in the vSwitch feature. It reduces the per packet + processing overhead by coalescing multiple TCP segments when possible. The + feature is enabled by default on VMs running on Windows Server 2019 and + later. It may be changed by ethtool command:: + + ethtool -K eth0 lro on + ethtool -K eth0 lro off + +SR-IOV support +-------------- + Hyper-V supports SR-IOV as a hardware acceleration option. If SR-IOV + is enabled in both the vSwitch and the guest configuration, then the + Virtual Function (VF) device is passed to the guest as a PCI + device. In this case, both a synthetic (netvsc) and VF device are + visible in the guest OS and both NIC's have the same MAC address. + + The VF is enslaved by netvsc device. The netvsc driver will transparently + switch the data path to the VF when it is available and up. + Network state (addresses, firewall, etc) should be applied only to the + netvsc device; the slave device should not be accessed directly in + most cases. The exceptions are if some special queue discipline or + flow direction is desired, these should be applied directly to the + VF slave device. + +Receive Buffer +-------------- + Packets are received into a receive area which is created when device + is probed. The receive area is broken into MTU sized chunks and each may + contain one or more packets. The number of receive sections may be changed + via ethtool Rx ring parameters. + + There is a similar send buffer which is used to aggregate packets for sending. + The send area is broken into chunks of 6144 bytes, each of section may + contain one or more packets. The send buffer is an optimization, the driver + will use slower method to handle very large packets or if the send buffer + area is exhausted. + +XDP support +----------- + XDP (eXpress Data Path) is a feature that runs eBPF bytecode at the early + stage when packets arrive at a NIC card. The goal is to increase performance + for packet processing, reducing the overhead of SKB allocation and other + upper network layers. + + hv_netvsc supports XDP in native mode, and transparently sets the XDP + program on the associated VF NIC as well. + + Setting / unsetting XDP program on synthetic NIC (netvsc) propagates to + VF NIC automatically. Setting / unsetting XDP program on VF NIC directly + is not recommended, also not propagated to synthetic NIC, and may be + overwritten by setting of synthetic NIC. + + XDP program cannot run with LRO (RSC) enabled, so you need to disable LRO + before running XDP:: + + ethtool -K eth0 lro off + + XDP_REDIRECT action is not yet supported. |