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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE 22.\" LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR 23.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF 24.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS 25.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN 26.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) 27.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE 28.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 29.\" 30.\" * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. 31.\" 32.\" $FreeBSD$ 33.\" 34.Dd February 14, 2011 35.Dt CXGBE 4 36.Os 37.Sh NAME 38.Nm cxgbe 39.Nd "Chelsio T4 10Gb and 1Gb Ethernet adapter driver" 40.Sh SYNOPSIS 41To compile this driver into the kernel, 42place the following lines in your 43kernel configuration file: 44.Bd -ragged -offset indent 45.Cd "device cxgbe" 46.Ed 47.Pp 48To load the driver as a 49module at boot time, place the following line in 50.Xr loader.conf 5 : 51.Bd -literal -offset indent 52if_cxgbe_load="YES" 53.Ed 54.Sh DESCRIPTION 55The 56.Nm 57driver provides support for PCI Express Ethernet adapters based on 58the Chelsio Terminator 4 (T4) ASIC. 59The driver supprts Jumbo Frames, Transmit/Receive checksum offload, 60TCP segmentation offload (TSO), Large Receive Offload (LRO), VLAN 61tag insertion/extraction, VLAN checksum offload, VLAN TSO, and 62Receive Side Steering (RSS). 63For further hardware information and questions related to hardware 64requirements, see 65.Pa http://www.chelsio.com/ . 66.Pp 67For more information on configuring this device, see 68.Xr ifconfig 8 . 69.Sh HARDWARE 70The 71.Nm 72driver supports 10Gb and 1Gb Ethernet adapters based on the T4 ASIC: 73.Pp 74.Bl -bullet -compact 75.It 76Chelsio T420-CR 77.It 78Chelsio T422-CR 79.It 80Chelsio T440-CR 81.It 82Chelsio T420-BCH 83.It 84Chelsio T440-BCH 85.It 86Chelsio T440-CH 87.It 88Chelsio T420-SO 89.It 90Chelsio T420-CX 91.It 92Chelsio T420-BT 93.It 94Chelsio T404-BT 95.El 96.Sh LOADER TUNABLES 97Tunables can be set at the 98.Xr loader 8 99prompt before booting the kernel or stored in 100.Xr loader.conf 5 . 101.Bl -tag -width indent 102.It Va hw.cxgbe.max_ntxq_10G_port 103The maximum number of tx queues to use for a 10Gb port. 104The default value is 8. 105.It Va hw.cxgbe.max_nrxq_10G_port 106The maximum number of rx queues to use for a 10Gb port. 107The default value is 8. 108.It Va hw.cxgbe.max_ntxq_1G_port 109The maximum number of tx queues to use for a 1Gb port. 110The default value is 2. 111.It Va hw.cxgbe.max_nrxq_1G_port 112The maximum number of rx queues to use for a 1Gb port. 113The default value is 2. 114.It Va hw.cxgbe.holdoff_timer_idx_10G 115.It Va hw.cxgbe.holdoff_timer_idx_1G 116The timer index value to use to delay interrupts. 117The holdoff timer list has the values 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, and 200 118by default (all values are in microseconds) and the index selects a 119value from this list. 120The default value is 1 for both 10Gb and 1Gb ports, which means the 121timer value is 5us. 122.It Va hw.cxgbe.holdoff_pktc_idx_10G 123.It Va hw.cxgbe.holdoff_pktc_idx_1G 124The packet-count index value to use to delay interrupts. 125The packet-count list has the values 1, 8, 16, and 32 by default 126and the index selects a value from this list. 127The default value is 2 for both 10Gb and 1Gb ports, which means 16 128packets (or the holdoff timer going off) before an interrupt is 129generated. 130.It Va hw.cxgbe.qsize_txq 131The size, in number of entries, of the descriptor ring used for a tx 132queue. 133A buf_ring of the same size is also allocated for additional 134software queuing. See 135.Xr ifnet 9 . 136The default value is 1024. 137.It Va hw.cxgbe.qsize_rxq 138The size, in number of entries, of the descriptor ring used for an 139rx queue. 140The default value is 1024. 141.El 142.Sh SUPPORT 143For general information and support, 144go to the Chelsio support website at: 145.Pa http://www.chelsio.com/ . 146.Pp 147If an issue is identified with this driver with a supported adapter, 148email all the specific information related to the issue to 149.Aq support@chelsio.com . 150.Sh SEE ALSO 151.Xr altq 4 , 152.Xr arp 4 , 153.Xr cxgb 4 , 154.Xr netintro 4 , 155.Xr ng_ether 4 , 156.Xr ifconfig 8 157.Sh HISTORY 158The 159.Nm 160device driver first appeared in 161.Fx 9.0 162.Sh AUTHORS 163.An -nosplit 164The 165.Nm 166driver was written by 167.An Navdeep Parhar Aq np@FreeBSD.org . 168