.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause Copyright(c) 2017 Cavium, Inc OCTEONTX Poll Mode driver ========================= The OCTEONTX ETHDEV PMD (**librte_pmd_octeontx**) provides poll mode ethdev driver support for the inbuilt network device found in the **Cavium OCTEONTX** SoC family as well as their virtual functions (VF) in SR-IOV context. More information can be found at `Cavium, Inc Official Website `_. Features -------- Features of the OCTEONTX Ethdev PMD are: - Packet type information - Promiscuous mode - Port hardware statistics - Jumbo frames - Link state information - SR-IOV VF - Multiple queues for TX - Lock-free Tx queue - HW offloaded `ethdev Rx queue` to `eventdev event queue` packet injection Supported OCTEONTX SoCs ----------------------- - CN83xx Unsupported features -------------------- The features supported by the device and not yet supported by this PMD include: - Receive Side Scaling (RSS) - Scattered and gather for TX and RX - Ingress classification support - Egress hierarchical scheduling, traffic shaping, and marking Prerequisites ------------- See :doc:`../platform/octeontx` for setup information. Pre-Installation Configuration ------------------------------ Config File Options ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The following options can be modified in the ``config`` file. Please note that enabling debugging options may affect system performance. - ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_OCTEONTX_PMD`` (default ``y``) Toggle compilation of the ``librte_pmd_octeontx`` driver. Driver compilation and testing ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Refer to the document :ref:`compiling and testing a PMD for a NIC ` for details. To compile the OCTEONTX PMD for Linux arm64 gcc target, run the following ``make`` command: .. code-block:: console cd make config T=arm64-thunderx-linuxapp-gcc install #. Running testpmd: Follow instructions available in the document :ref:`compiling and testing a PMD for a NIC ` to run testpmd. Example output: .. code-block:: console ./arm64-thunderx-linuxapp-gcc/app/testpmd -c 700 \ --base-virtaddr=0x100000000000 \ --mbuf-pool-ops-name="octeontx_fpavf" \ --vdev='event_octeontx' \ --vdev='eth_octeontx,nr_port=2' \ -- --rxq=1 --txq=1 --nb-core=2 \ --total-num-mbufs=16384 -i ..... EAL: Detected 24 lcore(s) EAL: Probing VFIO support... EAL: VFIO support initialized ..... EAL: PCI device 0000:07:00.1 on NUMA socket 0 EAL: probe driver: 177d:a04b octeontx_ssovf ..... EAL: PCI device 0001:02:00.7 on NUMA socket 0 EAL: probe driver: 177d:a0dd octeontx_pkivf ..... EAL: PCI device 0001:03:01.0 on NUMA socket 0 EAL: probe driver: 177d:a049 octeontx_pkovf ..... PMD: octeontx_probe(): created ethdev eth_octeontx for port 0 PMD: octeontx_probe(): created ethdev eth_octeontx for port 1 ..... Configuring Port 0 (socket 0) Port 0: 00:0F:B7:11:94:46 Configuring Port 1 (socket 0) Port 1: 00:0F:B7:11:94:47 ..... Checking link statuses... Port 0 Link Up - speed 40000 Mbps - full-duplex Port 1 Link Up - speed 40000 Mbps - full-duplex Done testpmd> Initialization -------------- The octeontx ethdev pmd is exposed as a vdev device which consists of a set of PKI and PKO PCIe VF devices. On EAL initialization, PKI/PKO PCIe VF devices will be probed and then the vdev device can be created from the application code, or from the EAL command line based on the number of probed/bound PKI/PKO PCIe VF device to DPDK by * Invoking ``rte_vdev_init("eth_octeontx")`` from the application * Using ``--vdev="eth_octeontx"`` in the EAL options, which will call rte_vdev_init() internally Device arguments ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Each ethdev port is mapped to a physical port(LMAC), Application can specify the number of interesting ports with ``nr_ports`` argument. Dependency ~~~~~~~~~~ ``eth_octeontx`` pmd is depend on ``event_octeontx`` eventdev device and ``octeontx_fpavf`` external mempool handler. Example: .. code-block:: console ./your_dpdk_application --mbuf-pool-ops-name="octeontx_fpavf" \ --vdev='event_octeontx' \ --vdev="eth_octeontx,nr_port=2" Limitations ----------- ``octeontx_fpavf`` external mempool handler dependency ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The OCTEONTX SoC family NIC has inbuilt HW assisted external mempool manager. This driver will only work with ``octeontx_fpavf`` external mempool handler as it is the most performance effective way for packet allocation and Tx buffer recycling on OCTEONTX SoC platform. CRC striping ~~~~~~~~~~~~ The OCTEONTX SoC family NICs strip the CRC for every packets coming into the host interface. So, CRC will be stripped even when the ``rxmode.hw_strip_crc`` member is set to 0 in ``struct rte_eth_conf``. Maximum packet length ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The OCTEONTX SoC family NICs support a maximum of a 32K jumbo frame. The value is fixed and cannot be changed. So, even when the ``rxmode.max_rx_pkt_len`` member of ``struct rte_eth_conf`` is set to a value lower than 32k, frames up to 32k bytes can still reach the host interface.