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BSD LICENSE + Copyright (C) Cavium, Inc. 2017. + All rights reserved. + + Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without + modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions + are met: + + * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright + notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. + * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright + notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in + the documentation and/or other materials provided with the + distribution. + * Neither the name of Cavium, Inc nor the names of its + contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived + from this software without specific prior written permission. + + THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS + "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT + LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR + A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT + OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, + SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT + LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, + DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY + THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT + (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE + OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. + +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 +<http://www.cavium.com/OCTEON-TX_ARM_Processors.html>`_. + +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 +------------- + +There are three main pre-perquisites for executing OCTEONTX PMD on a OCTEONTX +compatible board: + +1. **OCTEONTX Linux kernel PF driver for Network acceleration HW blocks** + + The OCTEONTX Linux kernel drivers (including the required PF driver for the + all network acceleration blocks) are available on GitHub at + `octeontx-kmod <https://github.com/caviumnetworks/octeontx-kmod>`_ + along with build, install and dpdk usage instructions. + +2. **ARM64 Tool Chain** + + For example, the *aarch64* Linaro Toolchain, which can be obtained from + `here <https://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/4.9-2017.01/aarch64-linux-gnu>`_. + +3. **Rootfile system** + + Any *aarch64* supporting filesystem can be used. For example, + Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily) or 16.04 LTS (Xenial) userland which can be obtained + from `<http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-base/releases/16.04/release/ubuntu-base-16.04.1-base-arm64.tar.gz>`_. + + As an alternative method, OCTEONTX PMD can also be executed using images provided + as part of SDK from Cavium. The SDK includes all the above prerequisites necessary + to bring up a OCTEONTX board. + + SDK and related information can be obtained from: `Cavium support site <https://support.cavium.com/>`_. + +Follow the DPDK :ref:`Getting Started Guide for Linux <linux_gsg>` to setup the basic DPDK environment. + +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. + +- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_OCTEONTX_DEBUG_DRIVER`` (default ``n``) + + Toggle display of generic debugging messages + +- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_OCTEONTX_DEBUG_INIT`` (default ``n``) + + Toggle display of initialization related messages. + +- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_OCTEONTX_DEBUG_RX`` (default ``n``) + + Toggle display of receive path message + +- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_OCTEONTX_DEBUG_TX`` (default ``n``) + + Toggle display of transmit path message + +- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_OCTEONTX_DEBUG_MBOX`` (default ``n``) + + Toggle display of mbox related message + + +Driver compilation and testing +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Refer to the document :ref:`compiling and testing a PMD for a NIC <pmd_build_and_test>` +for details. + +To compile the OCTEONTX PMD for Linux arm64 gcc target, run the +following ``make`` command: + +.. code-block:: console + + cd <DPDK-source-directory> + 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 <pmd_build_and_test>` + 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 \ + --disable-hw-vlan-filter -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="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. |