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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/iavf.rst b/Documentation/networking/iavf.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..f8b42b64eb28 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/iavf.rst @@ -0,0 +1,281 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ + +Linux* Base Driver for Intel(R) Ethernet Adaptive Virtual Function +================================================================== + +Intel Ethernet Adaptive Virtual Function Linux driver. +Copyright(c) 2013-2018 Intel Corporation. + +Contents +======== + +- Identifying Your Adapter +- Additional Configurations +- Known Issues/Troubleshooting +- Support + +This file describes the iavf Linux* Base Driver. This driver was formerly +called i40evf. + +The iavf driver supports the below mentioned virtual function devices and +can only be activated on kernels running the i40e or newer Physical Function +(PF) driver compiled with CONFIG_PCI_IOV. The iavf driver requires +CONFIG_PCI_MSI to be enabled. + +The guest OS loading the iavf driver must support MSI-X interrupts. + +Identifying Your Adapter +======================== +The driver in this kernel is compatible with devices based on the following: + * Intel(R) XL710 X710 Virtual Function + * Intel(R) X722 Virtual Function + * Intel(R) XXV710 Virtual Function + * Intel(R) Ethernet Adaptive Virtual Function + +For the best performance, make sure the latest NVM/FW is installed on your +device. + +For information on how to identify your adapter, and for the latest NVM/FW +images and Intel network drivers, refer to the Intel Support website: +http://www.intel.com/support + + +Additional Features and Configurations +====================================== + +Viewing Link Messages +--------------------- +Link messages will not be displayed to the console if the distribution is +restricting system messages. In order to see network driver link messages on +your console, set dmesg to eight by entering the following:: + + dmesg -n 8 + +NOTE: This setting is not saved across reboots. + +ethtool +------- +The driver utilizes the ethtool interface for driver configuration and +diagnostics, as well as displaying statistical information. The latest ethtool +version is required for this functionality. Download it at: +https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool/ + +Setting VLAN Tag Stripping +-------------------------- +If you have applications that require Virtual Functions (VFs) to receive +packets with VLAN tags, you can disable VLAN tag stripping for the VF. The +Physical Function (PF) processes requests issued from the VF to enable or +disable VLAN tag stripping. Note that if the PF has assigned a VLAN to a VF, +then requests from that VF to set VLAN tag stripping will be ignored. + +To enable/disable VLAN tag stripping for a VF, issue the following command +from inside the VM in which you are running the VF:: + + ethtool -K <if_name> rxvlan on/off + +or alternatively:: + + ethtool --offload <if_name> rxvlan on/off + +Adaptive Virtual Function +------------------------- +Adaptive Virtual Function (AVF) allows the virtual function driver, or VF, to +adapt to changing feature sets of the physical function driver (PF) with which +it is associated. This allows system administrators to update a PF without +having to update all the VFs associated with it. All AVFs have a single common +device ID and branding string. + +AVFs have a minimum set of features known as "base mode," but may provide +additional features depending on what features are available in the PF with +which the AVF is associated. The following are base mode features: + +- 4 Queue Pairs (QP) and associated Configuration Status Registers (CSRs) + for Tx/Rx. +- i40e descriptors and ring format. +- Descriptor write-back completion. +- 1 control queue, with i40e descriptors, CSRs and ring format. +- 5 MSI-X interrupt vectors and corresponding i40e CSRs. +- 1 Interrupt Throttle Rate (ITR) index. +- 1 Virtual Station Interface (VSI) per VF. +- 1 Traffic Class (TC), TC0 +- Receive Side Scaling (RSS) with 64 entry indirection table and key, + configured through the PF. +- 1 unicast MAC address reserved per VF. +- 16 MAC address filters for each VF. +- Stateless offloads - non-tunneled checksums. +- AVF device ID. +- HW mailbox is used for VF to PF communications (including on Windows). + +IEEE 802.1ad (QinQ) Support +--------------------------- +The IEEE 802.1ad standard, informally known as QinQ, allows for multiple VLAN +IDs within a single Ethernet frame. VLAN IDs are sometimes referred to as +"tags," and multiple VLAN IDs are thus referred to as a "tag stack." Tag stacks +allow L2 tunneling and the ability to segregate traffic within a particular +VLAN ID, among other uses. + +The following are examples of how to configure 802.1ad (QinQ):: + + ip link add link eth0 eth0.24 type vlan proto 802.1ad id 24 + ip link add link eth0.24 eth0.24.371 type vlan proto 802.1Q id 371 + +Where "24" and "371" are example VLAN IDs. + +NOTES: + Receive checksum offloads, cloud filters, and VLAN acceleration are not + supported for 802.1ad (QinQ) packets. + +Application Device Queues (ADq) +------------------------------- +Application Device Queues (ADq) allows you to dedicate one or more queues to a +specific application. This can reduce latency for the specified application, +and allow Tx traffic to be rate limited per application. Follow the steps below +to set ADq. + +1. Create traffic classes (TCs). Maximum of 8 TCs can be created per interface. +The shaper bw_rlimit parameter is optional. + +Example: Sets up two tcs, tc0 and tc1, with 16 queues each and max tx rate set +to 1Gbit for tc0 and 3Gbit for tc1. + +:: + + # tc qdisc add dev <interface> root mqprio num_tc 2 map 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 + queues 16@0 16@16 hw 1 mode channel shaper bw_rlimit min_rate 1Gbit 2Gbit + max_rate 1Gbit 3Gbit + +map: priority mapping for up to 16 priorities to tcs (e.g. map 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 +sets priorities 0-3 to use tc0 and 4-7 to use tc1) + +queues: for each tc, <num queues>@<offset> (e.g. queues 16@0 16@16 assigns +16 queues to tc0 at offset 0 and 16 queues to tc1 at offset 16. Max total +number of queues for all tcs is 64 or number of cores, whichever is lower.) + +hw 1 mode channel: ‘channel’ with ‘hw’ set to 1 is a new new hardware +offload mode in mqprio that makes full use of the mqprio options, the +TCs, the queue configurations, and the QoS parameters. + +shaper bw_rlimit: for each tc, sets minimum and maximum bandwidth rates. +Totals must be equal or less than port speed. + +For example: min_rate 1Gbit 3Gbit: Verify bandwidth limit using network +monitoring tools such as ifstat or sar –n DEV [interval] [number of samples] + +2. Enable HW TC offload on interface:: + + # ethtool -K <interface> hw-tc-offload on + +3. Apply TCs to ingress (RX) flow of interface:: + + # tc qdisc add dev <interface> ingress + +NOTES: + - Run all tc commands from the iproute2 <pathtoiproute2>/tc/ directory. + - ADq is not compatible with cloud filters. + - Setting up channels via ethtool (ethtool -L) is not supported when the TCs + are configured using mqprio. + - You must have iproute2 latest version + - NVM version 6.01 or later is required. + - ADq cannot be enabled when any the following features are enabled: Data + Center Bridging (DCB), Multiple Functions per Port (MFP), or Sideband Filters. + - If another driver (for example, DPDK) has set cloud filters, you cannot + enable ADq. + - Tunnel filters are not supported in ADq. If encapsulated packets do arrive + in non-tunnel mode, filtering will be done on the inner headers. For example, + for VXLAN traffic in non-tunnel mode, PCTYPE is identified as a VXLAN + encapsulated packet, outer headers are ignored. Therefore, inner headers are + matched. + - If a TC filter on a PF matches traffic over a VF (on the PF), that traffic + will be routed to the appropriate queue of the PF, and will not be passed on + the VF. Such traffic will end up getting dropped higher up in the TCP/IP + stack as it does not match PF address data. + - If traffic matches multiple TC filters that point to different TCs, that + traffic will be duplicated and sent to all matching TC queues. The hardware + switch mirrors the packet to a VSI list when multiple filters are matched. + + +Known Issues/Troubleshooting +============================ + +Traffic Is Not Being Passed Between VM and Client +------------------------------------------------- +You may not be able to pass traffic between a client system and a +Virtual Machine (VM) running on a separate host if the Virtual Function +(VF, or Virtual NIC) is not in trusted mode and spoof checking is enabled +on the VF. Note that this situation can occur in any combination of client, +host, and guest operating system. For information on how to set the VF to +trusted mode, refer to the section "VLAN Tag Packet Steering" in this +readme document. For information on setting spoof checking, refer to the +section "MAC and VLAN anti-spoofing feature" in this readme document. + +Do not unload port driver if VF with active VM is bound to it +------------------------------------------------------------- +Do not unload a port's driver if a Virtual Function (VF) with an active Virtual +Machine (VM) is bound to it. Doing so will cause the port to appear to hang. +Once the VM shuts down, or otherwise releases the VF, the command will complete. + +Virtual machine does not get link +--------------------------------- +If the virtual machine has more than one virtual port assigned to it, and those +virtual ports are bound to different physical ports, you may not get link on +all of the virtual ports. The following command may work around the issue:: + + ethtool -r <PF> + +Where <PF> is the PF interface in the host, for example: p5p1. You may need to +run the command more than once to get link on all virtual ports. + +MAC address of Virtual Function changes unexpectedly +---------------------------------------------------- +If a Virtual Function's MAC address is not assigned in the host, then the VF +(virtual function) driver will use a random MAC address. This random MAC +address may change each time the VF driver is reloaded. You can assign a static +MAC address in the host machine. This static MAC address will survive +a VF driver reload. + +Driver Buffer Overflow Fix +-------------------------- +The fix to resolve CVE-2016-8105, referenced in Intel SA-00069 +https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00069.html +is included in this and future versions of the driver. + +Multiple Interfaces on Same Ethernet Broadcast Network +------------------------------------------------------ +Due to the default ARP behavior on Linux, it is not possible to have one system +on two IP networks in the same Ethernet broadcast domain (non-partitioned +switch) behave as expected. All Ethernet interfaces will respond to IP traffic +for any IP address assigned to the system. This results in unbalanced receive +traffic. + +If you have multiple interfaces in a server, either turn on ARP filtering by +entering:: + + echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/arp_filter + +NOTE: This setting is not saved across reboots. The configuration change can be +made permanent by adding the following line to the file /etc/sysctl.conf:: + + net.ipv4.conf.all.arp_filter = 1 + +Another alternative is to install the interfaces in separate broadcast domains +(either in different switches or in a switch partitioned to VLANs). + +Rx Page Allocation Errors +------------------------- +'Page allocation failure. order:0' errors may occur under stress. +This is caused by the way the Linux kernel reports this stressed condition. + + +Support +======= +For general information, go to the Intel support website at: + +https://support.intel.com + +or the Intel Wired Networking project hosted by Sourceforge at: + +https://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000 + +If an issue is identified with the released source code on the supported kernel +with a supported adapter, email the specific information related to the issue +to e1000-devel@lists.sf.net |
