27. HINIC3 Poll Mode Driver

The hinic3 PMD (librte_net_hinic3) provides poll mode driver support for 25Gbps/100Gbps/200Gbps Huawei SPx series Network Adapters.

27.1. Features

  • Multi arch support: x86_64, ARMv8.

  • Multiple queues for TX and RX

  • Receiver Side Scaling (RSS)

  • Flow filtering

  • Checksum offload

  • TSO offload

  • Promiscuous mode

  • Port hardware statistics

  • Link state information

  • Link flow control

  • Scattered and gather for TX and RX

  • Allmulticast mode

  • MTU update

  • Multicast MAC filter

  • Flow API

  • Set Link down or up

  • VLAN filter and VLAN offload

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

  • FW version

  • LRO

27.2. Prerequisites

27.3. Driver compilation and testing

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

27.4. Limitations or Known issues

x86-32, Windows, and BSD are not supported yet.