27. I40E Poll Mode Driver
The i40e PMD (librte_net_i40e) provides poll mode driver support for 10/25/40 Gbps Intel® Ethernet 700 Series Network Adapters based on the Intel Ethernet Controller X710/XL710/XXV710 and Intel Ethernet Connection X722 (only support part of features).
27.1. Features
Features of the i40e PMD are:
- Multiple queues for TX and RX
- Receiver Side Scaling (RSS)
- MAC/VLAN filtering
- Packet type information
- Flow director
- Cloud filter
- Checksum offload
- VLAN/QinQ stripping and inserting
- TSO offload
- Promiscuous mode
- Multicast mode
- Port hardware statistics
- Jumbo frames
- Link state information
- Link flow control
- Mirror on port, VLAN and VSI
- Interrupt mode for RX
- Scattered and gather for TX and RX
- Vector Poll mode driver
- DCB
- VMDQ
- SR-IOV VF
- Hot plug
- IEEE1588/802.1AS timestamping
- VF Daemon (VFD) - EXPERIMENTAL
- Dynamic Device Personalization (DDP)
- Queue region configuration
- Virtual Function Port Representors
- Malicious Device Drive event catch and notify
- Generic flow API
27.2. Linux Prerequisites
Identifying your adapter using Intel Support and get the latest NVM/FW images.
Follow the DPDK Getting Started Guide for Linux to setup the basic DPDK environment.
To get better performance on Intel platforms, please follow the “How to get best performance with NICs on Intel platforms” section of the Getting Started Guide for Linux.
Upgrade the NVM/FW version following the Intel® Ethernet NVM Update Tool Quick Usage Guide for Linux and Intel® Ethernet NVM Update Tool: Quick Usage Guide for EFI if needed.
For information about supported media, please refer to this document: Intel® Ethernet Controller X710/XXV710/XL710 Feature Support Matrix.
Note
- Some adapters based on the Intel(R) Ethernet Controller 700 Series only support Intel Ethernet Optics modules. On these adapters, other modules are not supported and will not function.
- For connections based on Intel(R) Ethernet Controller 700 Series, support is dependent on your system board. Please see your vendor for details.
- In all cases Intel recommends using Intel Ethernet Optics; other modules may function but are not validated by Intel. Contact Intel for supported media types.
27.3. Windows Prerequisites
- Follow the guide for Windows to setup the basic DPDK environment.
- Identify the Intel® Ethernet adapter and get the latest NVM/FW version.
- To access any Intel® Ethernet hardware, load the NetUIO driver in place of existing built-in (inbox) driver.
- To load NetUIO driver, follow the steps mentioned in dpdk-kmods repository.
27.4. Kernel driver and Firmware Matching List
It is highly recommended to upgrade the i40e kernel driver and firmware to avoid the compatibility issues with i40e PMD. The table below shows a summary of the DPDK versions with corresponding out-of-tree Linux kernel drivers and firmware. The full list of in-tree and out-of-tree Linux kernel drivers from kernel.org and Linux distributions that were tested and verified are listed in the Tested Platforms section of the Release Notes for each release.
For X710/XL710/XXV710,
DPDK version Kernel driver version Firmware version 24.03 2.24.6 9.40 23.11 2.23.17 9.30 23.07 2.22.20 9.20 23.03 2.22.18 9.20 22.11 2.20.12 9.01 22.07 2.19.3 8.70 22.03 2.17.15 8.30 21.11 2.17.4 8.30 21.08 2.15.9 8.30 21.05 2.15.9 8.30 21.02 2.14.13 8.00 20.11 2.14.13 8.00 20.08 2.12.6 7.30 20.05 2.11.27 7.30 20.02 2.10.19 7.20 19.11 2.9.21 7.00 19.08 2.8.43 7.00 19.05 2.7.29 6.80 19.02 2.7.26 6.80 18.11 2.4.6 6.01 18.08 2.4.6 6.01 18.05 2.4.6 6.01 18.02 2.4.3 6.01 17.11 2.1.26 6.01 17.08 2.0.19 6.01 17.05 1.5.23 5.05 17.02 1.5.23 5.05 16.11 1.5.23 5.05 16.07 1.4.25 5.04 16.04 1.4.25 5.02
For X722,
DPDK version Kernel driver version Firmware version 24.03 2.24.6 6.20 23.11 2.23.17 6.20 23.07 2.22.20 6.20 23.03 2.22.18 6.20 22.11 2.20.12 6.00 22.07 2.19.3 5.60 22.03 2.17.15 5.50 21.11 2.17.4 5.30 21.08 2.15.9 5.30 21.05 2.15.9 5.30 21.02 2.14.13 5.00 20.11 2.13.10 5.00 20.08 2.12.6 4.11 20.05 2.11.27 4.11 20.02 2.10.19 4.11 19.11 2.9.21 4.10 19.08 2.9.21 4.10 19.05 2.7.29 3.33 19.02 2.7.26 3.33 18.11 2.4.6 3.33
27.5. Configuration
27.5.1. Compilation Options
The following options can be modified in the config/rte_config.h
file.
RTE_LIBRTE_I40E_QUEUE_NUM_PER_PF
(default64
)Number of queues reserved for PF.
RTE_LIBRTE_I40E_QUEUE_NUM_PER_VM
(default4
)Number of queues reserved for each VMDQ Pool.
27.5.2. Runtime Configuration
Reserved number of Queues per VF
(default4
)The number of reserved queue per VF is determined by its host PF. If the PCI address of an i40e PF is aaaa:bb.cc, the number of reserved queues per VF can be configured with EAL parameter like -a aaaa:bb.cc,queue-num-per-vf=n. The value n can be 1, 2, 4, 8 or 16. If no such parameter is configured, the number of reserved queues per VF is 4 by default. If VF request more than reserved queues per VF, PF will able to allocate max to 16 queues after a VF reset.
Support multiple driver
(defaultdisable
)There was a multiple driver support issue during use of 700 series Ethernet Adapter with both Linux kernel and DPDK PMD. To fix this issue,
devargs
parametersupport-multi-driver
is introduced, for example:-a 84:00.0,support-multi-driver=1
With the above configuration, DPDK PMD will not change global registers, and will switch PF interrupt from IntN to Int0 to avoid interrupt conflict between DPDK and Linux Kernel.
Support VF Port Representor
(defaultnot enabled
)The i40e PF PMD supports the creation of VF port representors for the control and monitoring of i40e virtual function devices. Each port representor corresponds to a single virtual function of that device. Using the
devargs
optionrepresentor
the user can specify which virtual functions to create port representors for on initialization of the PF PMD by passing the VF IDs of the VFs which are required.:-a DBDF,representor=[0,1,4]
Currently hot-plugging of representor ports is not supported so all required representors must be specified on the creation of the PF.
Enable validation for VF message
(defaultnot enabled
)The PF counts messages from each VF. If in any period of seconds the message statistic from a VF exceeds maximal limitation, the PF will ignore any new message from that VF for some seconds. Format – “maximal-message@period-seconds:ignore-seconds” For example:
-a 84:00.0,vf_msg_cfg=80@120:180
Support Tx diagnostics
(defaultnot enabled
)Set the
devargs
parametermbuf_check
to enable Tx diagnostics. For example,-a 18:01.0,mbuf_check=<case>
or-a 18:01.0,mbuf_check=[<case1>,<case2>...]
. Also,xstats_get
can be used to get the error counts, which are collected intx_mbuf_error_packets
xstats. For example, to show the statistics in testpmd, use:testpmd> show port xstats all
. Supported values for the<case>
parameter:mbuf
: Check for corrupted mbuf.size
: Check min/max packet length according to HW spec.segment
: Check number of mbuf segments not exceed hw limitation.offload
: Check any unsupported offload flag.
27.5.3. Vector RX Pre-conditions
For Vector RX it is assumed that the number of descriptor rings will be a power
of 2. With this pre-condition, the ring pointer can easily scroll back to the
head after hitting the tail without a conditional check. In addition Vector RX
can use this assumption to do a bit mask using ring_size - 1
.
27.6. Driver compilation and testing
Refer to the document compiling and testing a PMD for a NIC for details.
27.7. SR-IOV: Prerequisites and sample Application Notes
Load the kernel module:
modprobe i40e
Check the output in dmesg:
i40e 0000:83:00.1 ens802f0: renamed from eth0
Bring up the PF ports:
ifconfig ens802f0 up
Create VF device(s):
Echo the number of VFs to be created into the
sriov_numvfs
sysfs entry of the parent PF.Example:
echo 2 > /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/0000:81:00.0/sriov_numvfs
Assign VF MAC address:
Assign MAC address to the VF using iproute2 utility. The syntax is:
ip link set <PF netdev id> vf <VF id> mac <macaddr>
Example:
ip link set ens802f0 vf 0 mac a0:b0:c0:d0:e0:f0
Assign VF to VM, and bring up the VM. Please see the documentation for the I40E/IXGBE/IGB Virtual Function Driver.
Running testpmd:
Follow instructions available in the document compiling and testing a PMD for a NIC to run testpmd.
Example output:
... EAL: PCI device 0000:83:00.0 on NUMA socket 1 EAL: probe driver: 8086:1572 rte_i40e_pmd EAL: PCI memory mapped at 0x7f7f80000000 EAL: PCI memory mapped at 0x7f7f80800000 PMD: eth_i40e_dev_init(): FW 5.0 API 1.5 NVM 05.00.02 eetrack 8000208a Interactive-mode selected Configuring Port 0 (socket 0) ... PMD: i40e_dev_rx_queue_setup(): Rx Burst Bulk Alloc Preconditions are satisfied.Rx Burst Bulk Alloc function will be used on port=0, queue=0. ... Port 0: 68:05:CA:26:85:84 Checking link statuses... Port 0 Link Up - speed 10000 Mbps - full-duplex Done testpmd>
27.8. Sample Application Notes
27.8.1. Vlan filter
Vlan filter only works when Promiscuous mode is off.
To start testpmd
, and add vlan 10 to port 0:
./<build_dir>/app/dpdk-testpmd -l 0-15 -n 4 -- -i --forward-mode=mac
...
testpmd> set promisc 0 off
testpmd> rx_vlan add 10 0
27.8.2. Flow Director
The Flow Director works in receive mode to identify specific flows or sets of flows and route them to specific queues. The Flow Director filters can match the different fields for different type of packet: flow type, specific input set per flow type and the flexible payload.
The default input set of each flow type is:
ipv4-other : src_ip_address, dst_ip_address
ipv4-frag : src_ip_address, dst_ip_address
ipv4-tcp : src_ip_address, dst_ip_address, src_port, dst_port
ipv4-udp : src_ip_address, dst_ip_address, src_port, dst_port
ipv4-sctp : src_ip_address, dst_ip_address, src_port, dst_port,
verification_tag
ipv6-other : src_ip_address, dst_ip_address
ipv6-frag : src_ip_address, dst_ip_address
ipv6-tcp : src_ip_address, dst_ip_address, src_port, dst_port
ipv6-udp : src_ip_address, dst_ip_address, src_port, dst_port
ipv6-sctp : src_ip_address, dst_ip_address, src_port, dst_port,
verification_tag
l2_payload : ether_type
The flex payload is selected from offset 0 to 15 of packet’s payload by default, while it is masked out from matching.
Start testpmd
with --disable-rss
and --pkt-filter-mode=perfect
:
./<build_dir>/app/dpdk-testpmd -l 0-15 -n 4 -- -i --disable-rss \
--pkt-filter-mode=perfect --rxq=8 --txq=8 --nb-cores=8 \
--nb-ports=1
Add a rule to direct ipv4-udp
packet whose dst_ip=2.2.2.5, src_ip=2.2.2.3, src_port=32, dst_port=32
to queue 1:
testpmd> flow create 0 ingress pattern eth / ipv4 src is 2.2.2.3 \
dst is 2.2.2.5 / udp src is 32 dst is 32 / end \
actions mark id 1 / queue index 1 / end
Check the flow director status:
testpmd> show port fdir 0
######################## FDIR infos for port 0 ####################
MODE: PERFECT
SUPPORTED FLOW TYPE: ipv4-frag ipv4-tcp ipv4-udp ipv4-sctp ipv4-other
ipv6-frag ipv6-tcp ipv6-udp ipv6-sctp ipv6-other
l2_payload
FLEX PAYLOAD INFO:
max_len: 16 payload_limit: 480
payload_unit: 2 payload_seg: 3
bitmask_unit: 2 bitmask_num: 2
MASK:
vlan_tci: 0x0000,
src_ipv4: 0x00000000,
dst_ipv4: 0x00000000,
src_port: 0x0000,
dst_port: 0x0000
src_ipv6: 0x00000000,0x00000000,0x00000000,0x00000000,
dst_ipv6: 0x00000000,0x00000000,0x00000000,0x00000000
FLEX PAYLOAD SRC OFFSET:
L2_PAYLOAD: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...
L3_PAYLOAD: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...
L4_PAYLOAD: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...
FLEX MASK CFG:
ipv4-udp: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
ipv4-tcp: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
ipv4-sctp: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
ipv4-other: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
ipv4-frag: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
ipv6-udp: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
ipv6-tcp: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
ipv6-sctp: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
ipv6-other: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
ipv6-frag: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
l2_payload: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
guarant_count: 1 best_count: 0
guarant_space: 512 best_space: 7168
collision: 0 free: 0
maxhash: 0 maxlen: 0
add: 0 remove: 0
f_add: 0 f_remove: 0
27.8.3. Floating VEB
The Intel® Ethernet 700 Series support a feature called “Floating VEB”.
A Virtual Ethernet Bridge (VEB) is an IEEE Edge Virtual Bridging (EVB) term for functionality that allows local switching between virtual endpoints within a physical endpoint and also with an external bridge/network.
A “Floating” VEB doesn’t have an uplink connection to the outside world so all switching is done internally and remains within the host. As such, this feature provides security benefits.
In addition, a Floating VEB overcomes a limitation of normal VEBs where they cannot forward packets when the physical link is down. Floating VEBs don’t need to connect to the NIC port so they can still forward traffic from VF to VF even when the physical link is down.
Therefore, with this feature enabled VFs can be limited to communicating with each other but not an outside network, and they can do so even when there is no physical uplink on the associated NIC port.
To enable this feature, the user should pass a devargs
parameter to the
EAL, for example:
-a 84:00.0,enable_floating_veb=1
In this configuration the PMD will use the floating VEB feature for all the VFs created by this PF device.
Alternatively, the user can specify which VFs need to connect to this floating
VEB using the floating_veb_list
argument:
-a 84:00.0,enable_floating_veb=1,floating_veb_list=1;3-4
In this example VF1
, VF3
and VF4
connect to the floating VEB,
while other VFs connect to the normal VEB.
The current implementation only supports one floating VEB and one regular VEB. VFs can connect to a floating VEB or a regular VEB according to the configuration passed on the EAL command line.
The floating VEB functionality requires a NIC firmware version of 5.0 or greater.
27.8.4. Dynamic Device Personalization (DDP)
The Intel® Ethernet 700 Series except for the Intel Ethernet Connection X722 support a feature called “Dynamic Device Personalization (DDP)”, which is used to configure hardware by downloading a profile to support protocols/filters which are not supported by default. The DDP functionality requires a NIC firmware version of 6.0 or greater.
Current implementation supports GTP-C/GTP-U/PPPoE/PPPoL2TP/ESP, steering can be used with rte_flow API.
GTPv1 package is released, and it can be downloaded from https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/27587.
PPPoE package is released, and it can be downloaded from https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/28040.
ESP-AH package is released, and it can be downloaded from https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/29446.
Load a profile which supports GTP and store backup profile:
testpmd> ddp add 0 ./gtp.pkgo,./backup.pkgo
Delete a GTP profile and restore backup profile:
testpmd> ddp del 0 ./backup.pkgo
Get loaded DDP package info list:
testpmd> ddp get list 0
Display information about a GTP profile:
testpmd> ddp get info ./gtp.pkgo
27.8.5. Input set configuration
Input set for any PCTYPE can be configured with user defined configuration, For example, to use only 48bit prefix for IPv6 src address for IPv6 TCP RSS:
testpmd> port config 0 pctype 43 hash_inset clear all
testpmd> port config 0 pctype 43 hash_inset set field 13
testpmd> port config 0 pctype 43 hash_inset set field 14
testpmd> port config 0 pctype 43 hash_inset set field 15
27.8.6. Queue region configuration
The Intel® Ethernet 700 Series supports a feature of queue regions configuration for RSS in the PF, so that different traffic classes or different packet classification types can be separated to different queues in different queue regions. There is an API for configuration of queue regions in RSS with a command line. It can parse the parameters of the region index, queue number, queue start index, user priority, traffic classes and so on. Depending on commands from the command line, it will call i40e private APIs and start the process of setting or flushing the queue region configuration. As this feature is specific for i40e only private APIs are used.
testpmd> set port (port_id) queue-region region_id (value) \
queue_start_index (value) queue_num (value)
testpmd> set port (port_id) queue-region region_id (value) flowtype (value)
testpmd> set port (port_id) queue-region UP (value) region_id (value)
testpmd> set port (port_id) queue-region flush (on|off)
testpmd> show port (port_id) queue-region
27.8.7. Generic flow API
RSS Flow
RSS Flow supports to set hash input set, hash function, enable hash and configure queues. For example: Configure queues as queue 0, 1, 2, 3.
testpmd> flow create 0 ingress pattern end actions rss types end \ queues 0 1 2 3 end / end
Enable hash and set input set for ipv4-tcp.
testpmd> flow create 0 ingress pattern eth / ipv4 / tcp / end \ actions rss types ipv4-tcp l3-src-only end queues end / end
Set symmetric hash enable for flow type ipv4-tcp.
testpmd> flow create 0 ingress pattern eth / ipv4 / tcp / end \ actions rss types ipv4-tcp end queues end func symmetric_toeplitz / end
Set hash function as simple xor.
testpmd> flow create 0 ingress pattern end actions rss types end \ queues end func simple_xor / end
27.9. Limitations or Known issues
27.9.1. MPLS packet classification
For firmware versions prior to 5.0, MPLS packets are not recognized by the NIC. The L2 Payload flow type in flow director can be used to classify MPLS packet by using a command in testpmd like:
- testpmd> flow_director_filter 0 mode IP add flow l2_payload ether
- 0x8847 flexbytes () fwd pf queue <N> fd_id <M>
With the NIC firmware version 5.0 or greater, some limited MPLS support is added: Native MPLS (MPLS in Ethernet) skip is implemented, while no new packet type, no classification or offload are possible. With this change, L2 Payload flow type in flow director cannot be used to classify MPLS packet as with previous firmware versions. Meanwhile, the Ethertype filter can be used to classify MPLS packet by using a command in testpmd like:
- testpmd> flow create 0 ingress pattern eth type is 0x8847 / end
- actions queue index <M> / end
27.9.2. Receive packets with Ethertype 0x88A8
Due to the FW limitation, PF can receive packets with Ethertype 0x88A8 only when floating VEB is disabled.
27.9.3. Incorrect Rx statistics when packet is oversize
When a packet is over maximum frame size, the packet is dropped. However, the Rx statistics, when calling rte_eth_stats_get incorrectly shows it as received.
27.9.4. RX/TX statistics may be incorrect when register overflowed
The rx_bytes/tx_bytes statistics register is 48 bit length. Although this limitation is enlarged to 64 bit length on the software side, but there is no way to detect if the overflow occurred more than once. So rx_bytes/tx_bytes statistics data is correct when statistics are updated at least once between two overflows.
27.9.5. VF & TC max bandwidth setting
The per VF max bandwidth and per TC max bandwidth cannot be enabled in parallel. The behavior is different when handling per VF and per TC max bandwidth setting. When enabling per VF max bandwidth, SW will check if per TC max bandwidth is enabled. If so, return failure. When enabling per TC max bandwidth, SW will check if per VF max bandwidth is enabled. If so, disable per VF max bandwidth and continue with per TC max bandwidth setting.
27.9.6. TC TX scheduling mode setting
There are 2 TX scheduling modes for TCs, round robin and strict priority mode. If a TC is set to strict priority mode, it can consume unlimited bandwidth. It means if APP has set the max bandwidth for that TC, it comes to no effect. It’s suggested to set the strict priority mode for a TC that is latency sensitive but no consuming much bandwidth.
27.9.7. DCB function
DCB works only when RSS is enabled.
27.9.8. Global configuration warning
I40E PMD will set some global registers to enable some function or set some configure. Then when using different ports of the same NIC with Linux kernel and DPDK, the port with Linux kernel will be impacted by the port with DPDK. For example, register I40E_GL_SWT_L2TAGCTRL is used to control L2 tag, i40e PMD uses I40E_GL_SWT_L2TAGCTRL to set vlan TPID. If setting TPID in port A with DPDK, then the configuration will also impact port B in the NIC with kernel driver, which don’t want to use the TPID. So PMD reports warning to clarify what is changed by writing global register.
27.9.9. Cloud Filter
When programming cloud filters for IPv4/6_UDP/TCP/SCTP with SRC port only or DST port only, it will make any cloud filter using inner_vlan or tunnel key invalid. Default configuration will be recovered only by NIC core reset.
27.9.10. Mirror rule limitation for X722
Due to firmware restriction of X722, the same VSI cannot have more than one mirror rule.
27.10. Testpmd driver specific commands
Some i40e driver specific features are integrated in testpmd.
27.10.1. RSS queue region
Set RSS queue region span on a port:
testpmd> set port (port_id) queue-region region_id (value) \
queue_start_index (value) queue_num (value)
Set flowtype mapping on a RSS queue region on a port:
testpmd> set port (port_id) queue-region region_id (value) flowtype (value)
where:
- For the flowtype(pctype) of packet,the specific index for each type has been defined in file i40e_type.h as enum i40e_filter_pctype.
Set user priority mapping on a RSS queue region on a port:
testpmd> set port (port_id) queue-region UP (value) region_id (value)
Flush all queue region related configuration on a port:
testpmd> set port (port_id) queue-region flush (on|off)
where:
on
: is just an enable function which server for other configuration, it is for all configuration about queue region from up layer, at first will only keep in DPDK software stored in driver, only after “flush on”, it commit all configuration to HW."off
: is just clean all configuration about queue region just now, and restore all to DPDK i40e driver default config when start up.
Show all queue region related configuration info on a port:
testpmd> show port (port_id) queue-region
Note
Queue region only support on PF by now, so these command is only for configuration of queue region on PF port.
27.10.2. set promisc (for VF)
Set the unicast promiscuous mode for a VF from PF. It’s supported by Intel i40e NICs now. In promiscuous mode packets are not dropped if they aren’t for the specified MAC address:
testpmd> set vf promisc (port_id) (vf_id) (on|off)
27.10.3. set allmulticast (for VF)
Set the multicast promiscuous mode for a VF from PF. It’s supported by Intel i40e NICs now. In promiscuous mode packets are not dropped if they aren’t for the specified MAC address:
testpmd> set vf allmulti (port_id) (vf_id) (on|off)
27.10.4. set broadcast mode (for VF)
Set broadcast mode for a VF from the PF:
testpmd> set vf broadcast (port_id) (vf_id) (on|off)
27.10.5. vlan set tag (for VF)
Set VLAN tag for a VF from the PF:
testpmd> set vf vlan tag (port_id) (vf_id) (on|off)
27.10.6. set tx max bandwidth (for VF)
Set TX max absolute bandwidth (Mbps) for a VF from PF:
testpmd> set vf tx max-bandwidth (port_id) (vf_id) (max_bandwidth)
27.10.7. set tc tx min bandwidth (for VF)
Set all TCs’ TX min relative bandwidth (%) for a VF from PF:
testpmd> set vf tc tx min-bandwidth (port_id) (vf_id) (bw1, bw2, ...)
27.10.8. set tc tx max bandwidth (for VF)
Set a TC’s TX max absolute bandwidth (Mbps) for a VF from PF:
testpmd> set vf tc tx max-bandwidth (port_id) (vf_id) (tc_no) (max_bandwidth)
27.10.9. set tc strict link priority mode
Set some TCs’ strict link priority mode on a physical port:
testpmd> set tx strict-link-priority (port_id) (tc_bitmap)
27.10.10. ddp add
Load a dynamic device personalization (DDP) profile and store backup profile:
testpmd> ddp add (port_id) (profile_path[,backup_profile_path])
27.10.11. ddp del
Delete a dynamic device personalization profile and restore backup profile:
testpmd> ddp del (port_id) (backup_profile_path)
27.10.12. ddp get list
Get loaded dynamic device personalization (DDP) package info list:
testpmd> ddp get list (port_id)
27.10.13. ddp get info
Display information about dynamic device personalization (DDP) profile:
testpmd> ddp get info (profile_path)
27.10.14. ptype mapping
List all items from the ptype mapping table:
testpmd> ptype mapping get (port_id) (valid_only)
Where:
valid_only
: A flag indicates if only list valid items(=1) or all items(=0).
Replace a specific or a group of software defined ptype with a new one:
testpmd> ptype mapping replace (port_id) (target) (mask) (pkt_type)
where:
target
: A specific software ptype or a mask to represent a group of software ptypes.mask
: A flag indicate if “target” is a specific software ptype(=0) or a ptype mask(=1).pkt_type
: The new software ptype to replace the old ones.
Update hardware defined ptype to software defined packet type mapping table:
testpmd> ptype mapping update (port_id) (hw_ptype) (sw_ptype)
where:
hw_ptype
: hardware ptype as the index of the ptype mapping table.sw_ptype
: software ptype as the value of the ptype mapping table.
Reset ptype mapping table:
testpmd> ptype mapping reset (port_id)
27.10.15. show port pctype mapping
List all items from the pctype mapping table:
testpmd> show port (port_id) pctype mapping
27.11. High Performance of Small Packets on 40GbE NIC
As there might be firmware fixes for performance enhancement in latest version of firmware image, the firmware update might be needed for getting high performance. Check the Intel support website for the latest firmware updates. Users should consult the release notes specific to a DPDK release to identify the validated firmware version for a NIC using the i40e driver.
27.11.1. Use 16 Bytes RX Descriptor Size
As i40e PMD supports both 16 and 32 bytes RX descriptor sizes, and 16 bytes size can provide helps to high performance of small packets.
In config/rte_config.h
set the following to use 16 bytes size RX descriptors:
#define RTE_LIBRTE_I40E_16BYTE_RX_DESC 1
27.11.2. Input set requirement of each pctype for FDIR
Each PCTYPE can only have one specific FDIR input set at one time. For example, if creating 2 rte_flow rules with different input set for one PCTYPE, it will fail and return the info “Conflict with the first rule’s input set”, which means the current rule’s input set conflicts with the first rule’s. Remove the first rule if want to change the input set of the PCTYPE.
27.12. Example of getting best performance with l3fwd example
The following is an example of running the DPDK l3fwd
sample application to get high performance with a
server with Intel Xeon processors and Intel Ethernet CNA XL710.
The example scenario is to get best performance with two Intel Ethernet CNA XL710 40GbE ports. See Fig. 27.1 for the performance test setup.
Add two Intel Ethernet CNA XL710 to the platform, and use one port per card to get best performance. The reason for using two NICs is to overcome a PCIe v3.0 limitation since it cannot provide 80GbE bandwidth for two 40GbE ports, but two different PCIe v3.0 x8 slot can. Refer to the sample NICs output above, then we can select
82:00.0
and85:00.0
as test ports:82:00.0 Ethernet [0200]: Intel XL710 for 40GbE QSFP+ [8086:1583] 85:00.0 Ethernet [0200]: Intel XL710 for 40GbE QSFP+ [8086:1583]
Connect the ports to the traffic generator. For high speed testing, it’s best to use a hardware traffic generator.
Check the PCI devices numa node (socket id) and get the cores number on the exact socket id. In this case,
82:00.0
and85:00.0
are both in socket 1, and the cores on socket 1 in the referenced platform are 18-35 and 54-71. Note: Don’t use 2 logical cores on the same core (e.g core18 has 2 logical cores, core18 and core54), instead, use 2 logical cores from different cores (e.g core18 and core19).Bind these two ports to igb_uio.
As to Intel Ethernet CNA XL710 40GbE port, we need at least two queue pairs to achieve best performance, then two queues per port will be required, and each queue pair will need a dedicated CPU core for receiving/transmitting packets.
The DPDK sample application
l3fwd
will be used for performance testing, with using two ports for bi-directional forwarding. Compile thel3fwd sample
with the default lpm mode.The command line of running l3fwd would be something like the following:
./dpdk-l3fwd -l 18-21 -n 4 -a 82:00.0 -a 85:00.0 \ -- -p 0x3 --config '(0,0,18),(0,1,19),(1,0,20),(1,1,21)'
This means that the application uses core 18 for port 0, queue pair 0 forwarding, core 19 for port 0, queue pair 1 forwarding, core 20 for port 1, queue pair 0 forwarding, and core 21 for port 1, queue pair 1 forwarding.
Configure the traffic at a traffic generator.
- Start creating a stream on packet generator.
- Set the Ethernet II type to 0x0800.
27.12.1. Tx bytes affected by the link status change
For firmware versions prior to 6.01 for X710 series and 3.33 for X722 series, the tx_bytes statistics data is affected by the link down event. Each time the link status changes to down, the tx_bytes decreases 110 bytes.