man/man7d/i40e.7d

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.Dd May 23, 2018
.Dt I40E 7D
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm i40e
.Nd Intel 710/722 Ethernet Device Driver
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Pa /dev/net/i40e*
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
driver is a GLDv3, multi-threaded, clonable, loadable device driver that
supports the Data Link Provider Interface,
.Xr dlpi 7P .
The
.Nm
driver supports the Intel 710 and 722 Ethernet Controller families of
networking interface cards which come in 1 GbE, 10 GbE, 25 GbE, and 40
GbE variants.
.Pp
In addition to basic device initialization and the sending and receiving
of frames, it supports the following features:
.Bl -dash -offset indent
.It
Jumbo frames up to 9710 bytes.
.It
Promiscuous access via
.Xr snoop 1M and
.Xr dlpi 7P
.It
IPv4 Checksum Offload
.It
TCP, UDP, and SCTP checksum offload
.El
.Pp
At this time, the
.Nm
driver does not enable the use of energy efficient Ethernet (EEE) or
support the use of flow control through hardware pause frames.
.Sh APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE
For each device supported by the
.Nm
installed in the system, a character-special file will be created. This
file supports the Data Link Provider Interface (DLPI) which is documented
in
.Xr dlpi 7P .
For most consumers, the use of
.Xr libdlpi 3LIB ,
is recommended.
.Pp
Each instance is assigned a unique ascending integer identifier. A
device which has multiple ports may appear to the system as separate
instances. The system does not provide a guarnatee on how these will be
presented. Using this instance identifier, one can determine the exact
character-special file to open. For example, the first instance
enumerated in the system, with id 0, would be named
.Sy i40e0 .
It exists in the file system at
.Pa /dev/net/i40e0 .
.Sh CONFIGURATION
The
.Nm i40e
driver always performs auto-negotiation and depending on the model may
negotiate to 40 Gbps, 25 Gbps, 10 Gbps, or 1 Gbps. At this time, the
driver requires the use of auto-negotiation.
.Pp
The
.Nm
driver is managed by the
.Xr dladm 1M
utility.
.Xr dladm 1M
is the preferred interface for setting all properties. While
.Xr driver.conf based configuration is possible,
.Xr dladm 1M
is recommended. The
.Nm
driver may be joined into an aggregation based on the link aggregation
control protocol (LACP) through
.Xr dladm 1M .
.Sh PROPERTIES
The device supports the following properties which may be tuned through
its driver.conf file,
.Pa /kernel/drv/i40e.conf .
Most of these properties cannot be changed after the device has been
started. The device is started in response to a DLPI consumer opening
the device and binding to it. This happens when an IP interfaces is
plumbed or another
.Xr dlpi 7P
consumer such as
.Xr snoop 1M
or an LLDP daemon is started.
.Pp
Some properties may be tuned at runtime with the
.Xr dladm 1M
utility. Properties that can be will have the name of the dladm property
called out explicitly.
.Pp
These properties are not considered stable at this time. They may change
and should not be relied on. They are considered
.Sy Volatile .
It is not expected that administrators of the system will have to tune
these values.
.Bl -hang -width Ds
.It Sy default_mtu
.Bd -filled -compact
Minimum:
.Sy 1500 |
Maximum:
.Sy 9710 |
Runtime Property:
.Sy mtu
.Ed
.Bd -filled
The
.Sy default_mtu
property determines the starting MTU of the various device instances.
Note that the device's MTU also determines the upper bound of the MTU of
all VNICs created over the device. The default MTU is
.Sy 1500 .
.Ed
.It Sy mr_enable
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Minimum:
.Sy 0 |
Maximum:
.Sy 1
.Ed
.Bd -filled
The
.Sy mr_enable
proeprty determines whether or not support for multiple rings is enabled
for the device. The default is always to enable them. It is not
recommended to to disable them.
.Ed
.It Sy rx_ring_size
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Minimum:
.Sy 64 |
Maximum:
.Sy 4096
.Ed
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The
.Sy rx_ring_size
property determines the number of descriptors that will be used in each
receive ring on the card. Administrators should not normally need to
tune this value. Hardware requires that the ring size be a multiple of
32. The system will round up the set value to the nearest multiple of
32.
.Ed
.It Sy tx_ring_size
.Bd -filled -compact
Minimum:
.Sy 64 |
Maximum:
.Sy 4096
.Ed
.Bd -filled
The
.Sy tx_ring_size
property determines the number of descriptors that will be used in each
transmit ring on the card. Administrators should not normally need to
tune this value. Hardware requires that the ring size be a multiple of
32. The system will round up the set value to the nearest multiple of
32.
.Ed
.It Sy tx_resched_threshold
.Bd -filled -compact
Minimum:
.Sy 8 |
Maximum:
.Sy Variable
.Ed
.Bd -filled
The
.Sy tx_resched_threshold
property determines the number of descriptors that must be available for
a frame to be transmitted. The maximum is variable. It is dependent on
the value of the
.Sy tx_ring_size
property. At least eight descriptors must be available for the device to
function correctly.
.Ed
.It Sy rx_limit_per_intr
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Minimum:
.Sy 16 |
Maximum:
.Sy 4096
.Ed
.Bd -filled
The
.Sy rx_limit_per_intr
property determines the maximum number of packets that will be processed
on a given ring during a single interrupt. This is done to try and
guarantee some amount of liveness in the system. It is not expected
that administrators will have to tune this value.
.Ed
.It Sy tx_hcksum_enable
.Bd -filled -compact
Minimum:
.Sy 0 |
Maximum:
.Sy 1
.Ed
.Bd -filled
The
.Sy tx_hcksum_enable
property controls whether or not the device enables support for hardware
checksuming of outgoing packets. The default is to always enable support
for this. Turning it off will increase latency and decrease throughput
when transmitting packets, but should be done if a hardware bug is
suspected.
.Ed
.It Sy rx_hcksum_enable
.Bd -filled -compact
Minimum:
.Sy 0 |
Maximum:
.Sy 1
.Ed
.Bd -filled
The
.Sy rx_hcksum_enable
property controls whether or not the device enables support for hardware
checksuming of incoming packets. The default is to always enable support
for this. Turning it off will increase latency and decrease throughput
when receiving packets, but should be done if a hardware bug is
suspected.
.Ed
.It Sy rx_dma_threshold
.Bd -filled -compact
Minimum:
.Sy 0 |
Maximum:
.Sy INT32_MAX |
Runtime Property:
.Sy _rx_dma_treshold
.Ed
.Bd -filled
The
.Sy rx_dma_treshold
indicates the size in bytes of a received frame, including all of its
headers, at which the driver should not copy the frame but instead bind
DMA memory. By setting this property to its minimum, all frames will be
processed with DMA binding. By setting this property to its maximum, all
frames will be processed by copying the frame.
.Ed
.It Sy tx_lso_enable
.Bd -filled -compact
Minimum:
.Sy 0 |
Maximum:
.Sy 1
.Ed
.Bd -filled
The
.Sy tx_lso_enable
property controls whether or not the device enables support for Large Segment
Offloand (LSO) when transmitting packets.
The default is to always enable support for this.
Turning it off will decrease throughput when transmitting packets, but should
be done if a hardware bug is suspected.
.Ed
.El
.Sh ARCHITECTURE
The
.Nm
driver is only supported on
.Sy x86
systems at this time.
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width Pa
.It Pa /dev/net/i40e*
Per-instance character device.
.It Pa /kernel/drv/i40e
32-bit device driver (x86).
.It Pa /kernel/drv/amd64/i40e
64-bit device driver (x86).
.It Pa /kernel/drv/i40e.conf
Driver configuration file.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr dladm 1M ,
.Xr snoop 1M ,
.Xr driver.conf 4 ,
.Xr dlpi 7P