25. HINIC Poll Mode Driver

The hinic PMD (librte_net_hinic) provides poll mode driver support for 25Gbps Huawei Intelligent PCIE Network Adapters based on the Huawei Ethernet Controller Hi1822.

25.1. Features

• Multi arch support: x86_64, ARMv8.

• Multiple queues for TX and RX

• Receiver Side Scaling (RSS)

• MAC/VLAN filtering

• Checksum offload

• TSO offload

• Promiscuous mode

• Port hardware statistics

• Link state information

• Link flow control

• Scattered and gather for TX and RX

• SR-IOV - Partially supported at this point, VFIO only

• VLAN filter and VLAN offload

• Allmulticast mode

• MTU update

• Unicast MAC filter

• Multicast MAC filter

• Flow API

• Set Link down or up

• FW version

• LRO

25.2. Prerequisites

• Learning about Huawei Hi1822 IN200 Series Intelligent NICs using https://e.huawei.com/en/products/cloud-computing-dc/servers/pcie-ssd/in-card.

• Getting the latest product documents and software supports using https://support.huawei.com/enterprise/en/intelligent-accelerator-components/in500-solution-pid-23507369.

• Follow the DPDK Getting Started Guide for Linux to setup the basic DPDK environment.

25.3. Driver compilation and testing

Refer to the document compiling and testing a PMD for a NIC for details.

25.4. Limitations or Known issues

Build with ICC is not supported yet. X86-32, Power8, ARMv7 and BSD are not supported yet.