Network Interface Controller Drivers

• 1. Overview of Networking Drivers
• 2. Features Overview
  • 2.1. Speed capabilities
  • 2.2. Link status
  • 2.3. Link status event
  • 2.4. Removal event
  • 2.5. Queue status event
  • 2.6. Rx interrupt
  • 2.7. Lock-free Tx queue
  • 2.8. Fast mbuf free
  • 2.9. Free Tx mbuf on demand
  • 2.10. Queue start/stop
  • 2.11. MTU update
  • 2.12. Jumbo frame
  • 2.13. Scattered Rx
  • 2.14. Buffer Split on Rx
  • 2.15. LRO
  • 2.16. TSO
  • 2.17. Promiscuous mode
  • 2.18. Allmulticast mode
  • 2.19. Unicast MAC filter
  • 2.20. Multicast MAC filter
  • 2.21. RSS hash
  • 2.22. Inner RSS
  • 2.23. RSS key update
  • 2.24. RSS reta update
  • 2.25. VMDq
  • 2.26. SR-IOV
  • 2.27. DCB
  • 2.28. VLAN filter
  • 2.29. Flow control
  • 2.30. Rate limitation
  • 2.31. Traffic mirroring
  • 2.32. Inline crypto
  • 2.33. Inline protocol
  • 2.34. CRC offload
  • 2.35. VLAN offload
  • 2.36. QinQ offload
  • 2.37. FEC
  • 2.38. L3 checksum offload
  • 2.39. L4 checksum offload
  • 2.40. Timestamp offload
  • 2.41. MACsec offload
  • 2.42. Inner L3 checksum
  • 2.43. Inner L4 checksum
  • 2.44. Packet type parsing
  • 2.45. Timesync
  • 2.46. Rx descriptor status
  • 2.47. Tx descriptor status
  • 2.48. Basic stats
  • 2.49. Extended stats
  • 2.50. Stats per queue
  • 2.51. FW version
  • 2.52. EEPROM dump
  • 2.53. Module EEPROM dump
  • 2.54. Registers dump
  • 2.55. LED
  • 2.56. Multiprocess aware
  • 2.57. FreeBSD
  • 2.58. Linux
  • 2.59. Windows
  • 2.60. ARMv7
  • 2.61. ARMv8
  • 2.62. Power8
  • 2.63. x86-32
  • 2.64. x86-64
  • 2.65. Usage doc
  • 2.66. Design doc
  • 2.67. Perf doc
  • 2.68. Runtime Rx queue setup
  • 2.69. Runtime Tx queue setup
  • 2.70. Burst mode info
  • 2.71. PMD power management using monitor addresses
  • 2.72. Other dev ops not represented by a Feature
• 3. Compiling and testing a PMD for a NIC
  • 3.1. Driver Compilation
  • 3.2. Running testpmd in Linux
• 4. AF_PACKET Poll Mode Driver
  • 4.1. Options and inherent limitations
  • 4.2. Prerequisites
  • 4.3. Set up an af_packet interface
• 5. AF_XDP Poll Mode Driver
  • 5.1. Options
  • 5.2. Prerequisites
  • 5.3. Set up an af_xdp interface
  • 5.4. Limitations
• 6. ARK Poll Mode Driver
  • 6.1. Overview
  • 6.2. Device Parameters
  • 6.3. Data Path Interface
  • 6.4. Configuration Information
  • 6.5. Dynamic PMD Extension
    • 6.5.1. Extension Example
    • 6.5.2. Compiling Extension
    • 6.5.3. Enabling Extension
  • 6.6. Building DPDK
  • 6.7. Supported ARK RTL PCIe Instances
  • 6.8. Supported Operating Systems
  • 6.9. Supported Features
  • 6.10. Unsupported Features
  • 6.11. Pre-Requisites
  • 6.12. Usage Example
• 7. Aquantia Atlantic DPDK Driver
  • 7.1. Supported features
  • 7.2. Experimental API features
    • 7.2.1. Application Programming Interface
    • 7.2.2. Limitations or Known issues
    • 7.2.3. Supported Chipsets and NICs
• 8. AVP Poll Mode Driver
  • 8.1. Features and Limitations of the AVP PMD
  • 8.2. Prerequisites
  • 8.3. Launching a VM with an AVP type network attachment
• 9. AXGBE Poll Mode Driver
  • 9.1. Supported Features
  • 9.2. Building DPDK
  • 9.3. Prerequisites and Pre-conditions
  • 9.4. Usage Example
• 10. BNX2X Poll Mode Driver
  • 10.1. Supported Features
  • 10.2. Non-supported Features
  • 10.3. Co-existence considerations
  • 10.4. Supported QLogic NICs
  • 10.5. Prerequisites
  • 10.6. Pre-Installation Configuration
    • 10.6.1. Config Options
  • 10.7. Driver compilation and testing
  • 10.8. Jumbo: Limitation
  • 10.9. SR-IOV: Prerequisites and sample Application Notes
• 11. BNXT Poll Mode Driver
  • 11.1. CPU Support
  • 11.2. Kernel Dependency
  • 11.3. Running BNXT PMD
    • 11.3.1. Running on VF
    • 11.3.2. Running on PF
  • 11.4. Features
    • 11.4.1. Port Control
    • 11.4.2. Packet Filtering
    • 11.4.3. Stateless Offloads
    • 11.4.4. VLAN Insert/Strip
    • 11.4.5. Time Synchronization
    • 11.4.6. Statistics Collection
    • 11.4.7. Generic Flow Offload
  • 11.5. Notes
  • 11.6. Virtual Function Port Representors
  • 11.7. Representors on Stingray SoC
  • 11.8. Number of flows supported
  • 11.9. Selecting EM vs EEM
  • 11.10. Application Support
    • 11.10.1. Firmware
    • 11.10.2. Multiple Processes
    • 11.10.3. Runtime Queue Setup
    • 11.10.4. Descriptor Status
    • 11.10.5. Bonding
  • 11.11. Vector Processing
  • 11.12. Appendix
    • 11.12.1. Supported Chipsets and Adapters
• 12. CNXK Poll Mode driver
  • 12.1. Features
  • 12.2. Prerequisites
  • 12.3. Driver compilation and testing
  • 12.4. Runtime Config Options
  • 12.5. Limitations
    • 12.5.1. mempool_cnxk external mempool handler dependency
    • 12.5.2. CRC stripping
    • 12.5.3. RTE flow GRE support
    • 12.5.4. Custom protocols supported in RTE Flow
  • 12.6. Debugging Options
• 13. CXGBE Poll Mode Driver
  • 13.1. Features
  • 13.2. Limitations
  • 13.3. Supported Chelsio T5 NICs
  • 13.4. Supported Chelsio T6 NICs
  • 13.5. Supported SR-IOV Chelsio NICs
  • 13.6. Prerequisites
  • 13.7. Runtime Options
    • 13.7.1. Common Runtime Options
    • 13.7.2. CXGBE VF Only Runtime Options
    • 13.7.3. CXGBE PF Only Runtime Options
  • 13.8. Driver compilation and testing
  • 13.9. Linux
    • 13.9.1. Linux Installation
    • 13.9.2. Running testpmd
    • 13.9.3. Configuring SR-IOV Virtual Functions
  • 13.10. FreeBSD
    • 13.10.1. FreeBSD Installation
    • 13.10.2. Running testpmd
  • 13.11. Sample Application Notes
    • 13.11.1. Enable/Disable Flow Control
    • 13.11.2. Jumbo Mode
• 14. DPAA Poll Mode Driver
  • 14.1. NXP DPAA (Data Path Acceleration Architecture - Gen 1)
    • 14.1.1. DPAA Overview
  • 14.2. DPAA DPDK - Poll Mode Driver Overview
    • 14.2.1. DPAA Bus driver
    • 14.2.2. DPAA NIC Driver (PMD)
    • 14.2.3. DPAA Mempool Driver
  • 14.3. Allowing & Blocking
  • 14.4. Supported DPAA SoCs
  • 14.5. Prerequisites
  • 14.6. Pre-Installation Configuration
    • 14.6.1. Environment Variables
  • 14.7. Driver compilation and testing
  • 14.8. FMAN Config
    • 14.8.1. FMC - FMAN Configuration Tool
    • 14.8.2. FMLIB
    • 14.8.3. VSP (Virtual Storage Profile)
  • 14.9. Limitations
    • 14.9.1. Platform Requirement
    • 14.9.2. Maximum packet length
    • 14.9.3. Multiprocess Support
• 15. DPAA2 Poll Mode Driver
  • 15.1. NXP DPAA2 (Data Path Acceleration Architecture Gen2)
    • 15.1.1. DPAA2 Overview
    • 15.1.2. Overview of DPAA2 Objects
    • 15.1.3. DPAA2 Objects for an Ethernet Network Interface
    • 15.1.4. Object Connections
    • 15.1.5. Interrupts
  • 15.2. DPAA2 DPDK - Poll Mode Driver Overview
    • 15.2.1. DPAA2 bus driver
    • 15.2.2. DPIO driver
    • 15.2.3. DPBP based Mempool driver
    • 15.2.4. DPAA2 NIC Driver
  • 15.3. Supported DPAA2 SoCs
  • 15.4. Prerequisites
  • 15.5. Driver compilation and testing
  • 15.6. Enabling logs
  • 15.7. Allowing & Blocking
  • 15.8. Running secondary debug app without blocklist
  • 15.9. Limitations
    • 15.9.1. Platform Requirement
    • 15.9.2. Maximum packet length
    • 15.9.3. Other Limitations
  • 15.10. Traffic Management API
    • 15.10.1. Supported Features
    • 15.10.2. Usage example
• 16. Driver for VM Emulated Devices
  • 16.1. Validated Hypervisors
  • 16.2. Recommended Guest Operating System in Virtual Machine
  • 16.3. Setting Up a KVM Virtual Machine
  • 16.4. Known Limitations of Emulated Devices
• 17. ENA Poll Mode Driver
  • 17.1. Overview
  • 17.2. Management Interface
  • 17.3. Data Path Interface
  • 17.4. Configuration information
  • 17.5. Building DPDK
  • 17.6. Supported ENA adapters
  • 17.7. Supported Operating Systems
  • 17.8. Supported features
  • 17.9. Prerequisites
  • 17.10. Usage example
• 18. ENETC Poll Mode Driver
  • 18.1. ENETC
    • 18.1.1. ENETC Overview
    • 18.1.2. ENETC Features
    • 18.1.3. NIC Driver (PMD)
    • 18.1.4. Supported ENETC SoCs
    • 18.1.5. Prerequisites
    • 18.1.6. Driver compilation and testing
• 19. ENIC Poll Mode Driver
  • 19.1. How to obtain ENIC PMD integrated DPDK
  • 19.2. Configuration information
  • 19.3. SR-IOV mode utilization
  • 19.4. Generic Flow API support
  • 19.5. Overlay Offload
  • 19.6. Ingress VLAN Rewrite
  • 19.7. Vectorized Rx Handler
  • 19.8. 64B Completion Queue Entry
  • 19.9. Limitations
  • 19.10. How to build the suite
  • 19.11. Supported Cisco VIC adapters
  • 19.12. Supported Operating Systems
  • 19.13. Supported features
  • 19.14. Known bugs and unsupported features in this release
  • 19.15. Prerequisites
  • 19.16. Additional Reference
  • 19.17. Contact Information
• 20. FM10K Poll Mode Driver
  • 20.1. FTAG Based Forwarding of FM10K
  • 20.2. Vector PMD for FM10K
    • 20.2.1. RX Constraints
    • 20.2.2. TX Constraint
  • 20.3. Limitations
    • 20.3.1. Switch manager
    • 20.3.2. Support for Switch Restart
    • 20.3.3. CRC stripping
    • 20.3.4. Maximum packet length
    • 20.3.5. Statistic Polling Frequency
    • 20.3.6. Interrupt mode
• 21. HINIC Poll Mode Driver
  • 21.1. Features
  • 21.2. Prerequisites
  • 21.3. Driver compilation and testing
  • 21.4. Limitations or Known issues
• 22. HNS3 Poll Mode Driver
  • 22.1. Features
  • 22.2. Prerequisites
  • 22.3. Pre-Installation Configuration
    • 22.3.1. Config File Options
    • 22.3.2. Runtime Config Options
    • 22.3.3. Link status event Pre-conditions
  • 22.4. Driver compilation and testing
  • 22.5. Sample Application Notes
    • 22.5.1. VLAN filter
    • 22.5.2. Flow Director
    • 22.5.3. Generic flow API
  • 22.6. Statistics
  • 22.7. Performance tuning
    • 22.7.1. Hardware configuration
    • 22.7.2. Queue depth configuration
    • 22.7.3. IO burst configuration
    • 22.7.4. Queue number configuration
    • 22.7.5. Hugepage configuration
    • 22.7.6. CPU core isolation
  • 22.8. Limitations or Known issues
• 23. I40E Poll Mode Driver
  • 23.1. Features
  • 23.2. Linux Prerequisites
  • 23.3. Windows Prerequisites
  • 23.4. Recommended Matching List
  • 23.5. Pre-Installation Configuration
    • 23.5.1. Config File Options
    • 23.5.2. Runtime Config Options
    • 23.5.3. Vector RX Pre-conditions
  • 23.6. Driver compilation and testing
  • 23.7. SR-IOV: Prerequisites and sample Application Notes
  • 23.8. Sample Application Notes
    • 23.8.1. Vlan filter
    • 23.8.2. Flow Director
    • 23.8.3. Floating VEB
    • 23.8.4. Dynamic Device Personalization (DDP)
    • 23.8.5. Input set configuration
    • 23.8.6. Queue region configuration
    • 23.8.7. Generic flow API
  • 23.9. Limitations or Known issues
    • 23.9.1. MPLS packet classification
    • 23.9.2. 16 Byte RX Descriptor setting on DPDK VF
    • 23.9.3. Receive packets with Ethertype 0x88A8
    • 23.9.4. Incorrect Rx statistics when packet is oversize
    • 23.9.5. RX/TX statistics may be incorrect when register overflowed
    • 23.9.6. VF & TC max bandwidth setting
    • 23.9.7. TC TX scheduling mode setting
    • 23.9.8. VF performance is impacted by PCI extended tag setting
    • 23.9.9. Vlan strip of VF
    • 23.9.10. DCB function
    • 23.9.11. Global configuration warning
    • 23.9.12. Cloud Filter
    • 23.9.13. Mirror rule limitation for X722
  • 23.10. High Performance of Small Packets on 40GbE NIC
    • 23.10.1. Use 16 Bytes RX Descriptor Size
    • 23.10.2. Input set requirement of each pctype for FDIR
  • 23.11. Example of getting best performance with l3fwd example
    • 23.11.1. Tx bytes affected by the link status change
• 24. ICE Poll Mode Driver
  • 24.1. Linux Prerequisites
  • 24.2. Windows Prerequisites
  • 24.3. Recommended Matching List
  • 24.4. Pre-Installation Configuration
    • 24.4.1. Runtime Config Options
  • 24.5. Driver compilation and testing
  • 24.6. Features
    • 24.6.1. Vector PMD
    • 24.6.2. Malicious driver detection (MDD)
    • 24.6.3. Device Config Function (DCF)
  • 24.7. Sample Application Notes
    • 24.7.1. Vlan filter
  • 24.8. Limitations or Known issues
• 25. IGB Poll Mode Driver
  • 25.1. Features
  • 25.2. Limitations or Known issues
  • 25.3. Supported Chipsets and NICs
• 26. IGC Poll Mode Driver
  • 26.1. Driver compilation and testing
  • 26.2. Supported Chipsets and NICs
  • 26.3. Sample Application Notes
    • 26.3.1. Vlan filter
    • 26.3.2. Flow Director
• 27. IONIC Driver
  • 27.1. Identifying the Adapter
  • 27.2. Firmware Support
  • 27.3. Building DPDK
• 28. IPN3KE Poll Mode Driver
  • 28.1. Prerequisites
  • 28.2. Pre-Installation Configuration
    • 28.2.1. Runtime Config Options
  • 28.3. Driver compilation and testing
  • 28.4. Sample Application Notes
    • 28.4.1. Packet TX/RX with FPGA Pass-through image
    • 28.4.2. HQoS and flow acceleration
  • 28.5. Limitations or Known issues
    • 28.5.1. 19.05 limitation
• 29. IXGBE Driver
  • 29.1. Vector PMD for IXGBE
    • 29.1.1. RX Constraints
    • 29.1.2. TX Constraint
  • 29.2. Application Programming Interface
  • 29.3. Sample Application Notes
    • 29.3.1. l3fwd
    • 29.3.2. load_balancer
  • 29.4. Limitations or Known issues
    • 29.4.1. Malicious Driver Detection not Supported
    • 29.4.2. Statistics
    • 29.4.3. MTU setting
    • 29.4.4. VF MAC address setting
    • 29.4.5. X550 does not support legacy interrupt mode
    • 29.4.6. RSS isn’t supported when QinQ is enabled
    • 29.4.7. UDP with zero checksum is reported as error
  • 29.5. Inline crypto processing support
  • 29.6. Virtual Function Port Representors
  • 29.7. Supported Chipsets and NICs
• 30. Intel Virtual Function Driver
  • 30.1. SR-IOV Mode Utilization in a DPDK Environment
    • 30.1.1. Physical and Virtual Function Infrastructure
    • 30.1.2. Validated Hypervisors
    • 30.1.3. Expected Guest Operating System in Virtual Machine
  • 30.2. Setting Up a KVM Virtual Machine Monitor
  • 30.3. DPDK SR-IOV PMD PF/VF Driver Usage Model
    • 30.3.1. Fast Host-based Packet Processing
  • 30.4. SR-IOV (PF/VF) Approach for Inter-VM Communication
• 31. KNI Poll Mode Driver
  • 31.1. Usage
  • 31.2. Default interface configuration
  • 31.3. PMD arguments
  • 31.4. PMD log messages
  • 31.5. PMD testing
• 32. LiquidIO VF Poll Mode Driver
  • 32.1. Supported LiquidIO Adapters
  • 32.2. SR-IOV: Prerequisites and Sample Application Notes
  • 32.3. Limitations
    • 32.3.1. VF MTU
    • 32.3.2. VLAN offload
    • 32.3.3. Ring size
    • 32.3.4. CRC stripping
• 33. Memif Poll Mode Driver
  • 33.1. Shared memory
  • 33.2. Zero-copy client
    • 33.2.1. Example: testpmd
    • 33.2.2. Example: testpmd and VPP
    • 33.2.3. Example: testpmd memif loopback
• 34. MLX4 poll mode driver library
  • 34.1. Implementation details
  • 34.2. Configuration
    • 34.2.1. Compilation options
    • 34.2.2. Environment variables
    • 34.2.3. Run-time configuration
    • 34.2.4. Kernel module parameters
  • 34.3. Limitations
  • 34.4. Prerequisites
    • 34.4.1. Current RDMA core package and Linux kernel (recommended)
    • 34.4.2. Mellanox OFED as a fallback
  • 34.5. Quick Start Guide
  • 34.6. Performance tuning
  • 34.7. Usage example
• 35. MLX5 poll mode driver
  • 35.1. Design
  • 35.2. Features
  • 35.3. Limitations
  • 35.4. Statistics
  • 35.5. Configuration
    • 35.5.1. Compilation options
    • 35.5.2. Environment variables
    • 35.5.3. Run-time configuration
    • 35.5.4. Firmware configuration
  • 35.6. Linux Prerequisites
    • 35.6.1. Installation
  • 35.7. Windows Prerequisites
    • 35.7.1. Compilation Prerequisites
    • 35.7.2. Runtime Prerequisites
  • 35.8. Supported NICs
  • 35.9. Quick Start Guide on OFED/EN
  • 35.10. Enable switchdev mode
  • 35.11. Sub-Function support
  • 35.12. Sub-Function representor support
  • 35.13. Performance tuning
  • 35.14. Rx burst functions
  • 35.15. Supported hardware offloads
  • 35.16. Notes for metadata
  • 35.17. Notes for rte_flow
  • 35.18. Notes for testpmd
  • 35.19. Usage example
  • 35.20. How to dump flows
  • 35.21. How to share a meter between ports in the same switch domain
  • 35.22. How to use meter hierarchy
• 36. MVNETA Poll Mode Driver
  • 36.1. Features
  • 36.2. Limitations
  • 36.3. Prerequisites
  • 36.4. Runtime options
  • 36.5. Building MUSDK
  • 36.6. Building DPDK
  • 36.7. Usage Example
• 37. MVPP2 Poll Mode Driver
  • 37.1. Features
  • 37.2. Limitations
  • 37.3. Prerequisites
  • 37.4. Building MUSDK
  • 37.5. Building DPDK
  • 37.6. Usage Example
  • 37.7. Extended stats
  • 37.8. External Configuration
    • 37.8.1. Configuration syntax
  • 37.9. Flow API
    • 37.9.1. Supported flow actions
    • 37.9.2. Supported flow items
    • 37.9.3. Classifier match engine
    • 37.9.4. Flow rules usage example
    • 37.9.5. Limitations
  • 37.10. Traffic metering and policing
    • 37.10.1. Limitations
    • 37.10.2. Usage example
  • 37.11. Traffic Management API
    • 37.11.1. Limitations
    • 37.11.2. Usage example
• 38. Netvsc poll mode driver
  • 38.1. Features and Limitations of Hyper-V PMD
  • 38.2. Installation
  • 38.3. Prerequisites
  • 38.4. Netvsc PMD arguments
• 39. NFB poll mode driver library
  • 39.1. Prerequisites
    • 39.1.1. Versions of the packages
  • 39.2. Configuration
  • 39.3. Using the NFB PMD
  • 39.4. NFB card architecture
  • 39.5. Limitations
  • 39.6. Example of usage
• 40. NFP poll mode driver library
  • 40.1. Dependencies
  • 40.2. Building the software
  • 40.3. Driver compilation and testing
  • 40.4. Using the PF
  • 40.5. PF multiport support
  • 40.6. PF multiprocess support
  • 40.7. System configuration
• 41. NGBE Poll Mode Driver
  • 41.1. Features
  • 41.2. Prerequisites
  • 41.3. Pre-Installation Configuration
    • 41.3.1. Dynamic Logging Parameters
  • 41.4. Driver compilation and testing
  • 41.5. Limitations or Known issues
• 42. NULL Poll Mode Driver
  • 42.1. Usage
  • 42.2. Runtime Config Options
• 43. OCTEON TX Poll Mode driver
  • 43.1. Features
  • 43.2. Supported OCTEON TX SoCs
  • 43.3. Unsupported features
  • 43.4. Prerequisites
  • 43.5. Pre-Installation Configuration
    • 43.5.1. Driver compilation and testing
  • 43.6. Initialization
    • 43.6.1. Device arguments
    • 43.6.2. Dependency
  • 43.7. Limitations
    • 43.7.1. octeontx_fpavf external mempool handler dependency
    • 43.7.2. CRC stripping
    • 43.7.3. Maximum packet length
    • 43.7.4. Maximum mempool size
• 44. OCTEON TX2 Poll Mode driver
  • 44.1. Features
  • 44.2. Prerequisites
  • 44.3. Driver compilation and testing
  • 44.4. Runtime Config Options
  • 44.5. Traffic Management API
  • 44.6. Limitations
    • 44.6.1. mempool_octeontx2 external mempool handler dependency
    • 44.6.2. CRC stripping
    • 44.6.3. Multicast MAC filtering
    • 44.6.4. SDP interface support
    • 44.6.5. Inline Protocol Processing
  • 44.7. Debugging Options
  • 44.8. RTE Flow Support
    • 44.8.1. Custom protocols supported in RTE Flow
• 45. OCTEON TX EP Poll Mode driver
  • 45.1. Prerequisites
• 46. PFE Poll Mode Driver
  • 46.1. PFE
    • 46.1.1. PFE Overview
    • 46.1.2. PFE Features
    • 46.1.3. Supported PFE SoCs
    • 46.1.4. Prerequisites
    • 46.1.5. Driver compilation and testing
    • 46.1.6. Limitations
• 47. QEDE Poll Mode Driver
  • 47.1. Supported Features
  • 47.2. Co-existence considerations
  • 47.3. Supported QLogic Adapters
  • 47.4. Prerequisites
    • 47.4.1. Performance note
    • 47.4.2. Config Options
    • 47.4.3. Config notes
  • 47.5. Driver compilation and testing
  • 47.6. RTE Flow Support
  • 47.7. SR-IOV: Prerequisites and Sample Application Notes
• 48. Solarflare libefx-based Poll Mode Driver
  • 48.1. Features
  • 48.2. Non-supported Features
  • 48.3. Limitations
    • 48.3.1. Equal stride super-buffer mode
  • 48.4. Tunnels support
  • 48.5. Flow API support
    • 48.5.1. Ethernet destination individual/group match
    • 48.5.2. Exceptions to flow rules
  • 48.6. Supported NICs
  • 48.7. Prerequisites
  • 48.8. Pre-Installation Configuration
    • 48.8.1. Build Options
    • 48.8.2. Per-Device Parameters
    • 48.8.3. Dynamic Logging Parameters
• 49. Soft NIC Poll Mode Driver
  • 49.1. Flow
  • 49.2. Supported Operating Systems
  • 49.3. Soft NIC PMD arguments
  • 49.4. Soft NIC testing
  • 49.5. Soft NIC Firmware
  • 49.6. QoS API Support:
  • 49.7. Flow API support:
    • 49.7.1. Example:
• 50. SZEDATA2 poll mode driver library
  • 50.1. Prerequisites
    • 50.1.1. Versions of the packages
  • 50.2. Using the SZEDATA2 PMD
  • 50.3. NFB card architecture
  • 50.4. Limitations
  • 50.5. Example of usage
• 51. Tun|Tap Poll Mode Driver
  • 51.1. Flow API support
    • 51.1.1. Examples of testpmd flow rules
  • 51.2. Multi-process sharing
  • 51.3. Example
  • 51.4. RSS specifics
  • 51.5. Systems supporting flow API
• 52. ThunderX NICVF Poll Mode Driver
  • 52.1. Features
  • 52.2. Supported ThunderX SoCs
  • 52.3. Prerequisites
  • 52.4. Driver compilation and testing
  • 52.5. Linux
    • 52.5.1. SR-IOV: Prerequisites and sample Application Notes
    • 52.5.2. Multiple Queue Set per DPDK port configuration
    • 52.5.3. LBK HW Access
    • 52.5.4. Example device binding
    • 52.5.5. Thunder-nic VF’s
  • 52.6. Debugging Options
  • 52.7. Module params
    • 52.7.1. skip_data_bytes
  • 52.8. Limitations
    • 52.8.1. CRC stripping
    • 52.8.2. Maximum packet length
    • 52.8.3. Maximum packet segments
    • 52.8.4. skip_data_bytes
• 53. TXGBE Poll Mode Driver
  • 53.1. Features
  • 53.2. Prerequisites
  • 53.3. Pre-Installation Configuration
    • 53.3.1. Build Options
    • 53.3.2. Dynamic Logging Parameters
    • 53.3.3. Runtime Options
  • 53.4. Driver compilation and testing
  • 53.5. Sample Application Notes
    • 53.5.1. Generic flow API
    • 53.5.2. Traffic Management API
  • 53.6. Limitations or Known issues
• 54. VDEV_NETVSC driver
  • 54.1. Implementation details
  • 54.2. Run-time parameters
• 55. Poll Mode Driver for Emulated Virtio NIC
  • 55.1. Virtio Implementation in DPDK
  • 55.2. Features and Limitations of virtio PMD
  • 55.3. Prerequisites
  • 55.4. Virtio with kni vhost Back End
  • 55.5. Virtio with qemu virtio Back End
  • 55.6. Virtio PMD Rx/Tx Callbacks
  • 55.7. Interrupt mode
    • 55.7.1. Prerequisites for Rx interrupts
    • 55.7.2. Example
  • 55.8. Virtio PMD arguments
  • 55.9. Virtio paths Selection and Usage
    • 55.9.1. Virtio paths Selection
    • 55.9.2. Rx/Tx callbacks of each Virtio path
    • 55.9.3. Virtio paths Support Status from Release to Release
    • 55.9.4. QEMU Support Status
    • 55.9.5. How to Debug
• 56. Poll Mode Driver that wraps vhost library
  • 56.1. Vhost Implementation in DPDK
  • 56.2. Features and Limitations of vhost PMD
  • 56.3. Vhost PMD arguments
  • 56.4. Vhost PMD event handling
  • 56.5. Vhost PMD with testpmd application
• 57. Poll Mode Driver for Paravirtual VMXNET3 NIC
  • 57.1. VMXNET3 Implementation in the DPDK
  • 57.2. Features and Limitations of VMXNET3 PMD
  • 57.3. Prerequisites
  • 57.4. VMXNET3 with a Native NIC Connected to a vSwitch
  • 57.5. VMXNET3 Chaining VMs Connected to a vSwitch
• 58. Libpcap and Ring Based Poll Mode Drivers
  • 58.1. Using the Drivers from the EAL Command Line
    • 58.1.1. Libpcap-based PMD
    • 58.1.2. Rings-based PMD
    • 58.1.3. Using the Poll Mode Driver from an Application
• 59. Fail-safe poll mode driver library
  • 59.1. Features
  • 59.2. Using the Fail-safe PMD from the EAL command line
    • 59.2.1. Fail-safe command line parameters
    • 59.2.2. Usage example
  • 59.3. Using the Fail-safe PMD from an application
  • 59.4. Plug-in feature
  • 59.5. Plug-out feature
  • 59.6. Fail-safe glossary