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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/i40e.txt b/Documentation/networking/i40e.txt deleted file mode 100644 index c2d6e1824b29f..0000000000000 --- a/Documentation/networking/i40e.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,190 +0,0 @@ -Linux Base Driver for the Intel(R) Ethernet Controller XL710 Family -=================================================================== - -Intel i40e Linux driver. -Copyright(c) 2013 Intel Corporation. - -Contents -======== - -- Identifying Your Adapter -- Additional Configurations -- Performance Tuning -- Known Issues -- Support - - -Identifying Your Adapter -======================== - -The driver in this release is compatible with the Intel Ethernet -Controller XL710 Family. - -For more information on how to identify your adapter, go to the Adapter & -Driver ID Guide at: - - http://support.intel.com/support/network/sb/CS-012904.htm - - -Enabling the driver -=================== - -The driver is enabled via the standard kernel configuration system, -using the make command: - - make config/oldconfig/menuconfig/etc. - -The driver is located in the menu structure at: - - -> Device Drivers - -> Network device support (NETDEVICES [=y]) - -> Ethernet driver support - -> Intel devices - -> Intel(R) Ethernet Controller XL710 Family - -Additional Configurations -========================= - - Generic Receive Offload (GRO) - ----------------------------- - The driver supports the in-kernel software implementation of GRO. GRO has - shown that by coalescing Rx traffic into larger chunks of data, CPU - utilization can be significantly reduced when under large Rx load. GRO is - an evolution of the previously-used LRO interface. GRO is able to coalesce - other protocols besides TCP. It's also safe to use with configurations that - are problematic for LRO, namely bridging and iSCSI. - - 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. - - The latest release of ethtool can be found from - https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool - - - Flow Director n-ntuple traffic filters (FDir) - --------------------------------------------- - The driver utilizes the ethtool interface for configuring ntuple filters, - via "ethtool -N <device> <filter>". - - The sctp4, ip4, udp4, and tcp4 flow types are supported with the standard - fields including src-ip, dst-ip, src-port and dst-port. The driver only - supports fully enabling or fully masking the fields, so use of the mask - fields for partial matches is not supported. - - Additionally, the driver supports using the action to specify filters for a - Virtual Function. You can specify the action as a 64bit value, where the - lower 32 bits represents the queue number, while the next 8 bits represent - which VF. Note that 0 is the PF, so the VF identifier is offset by 1. For - example: - - ... action 0x800000002 ... - - Would indicate to direct traffic for Virtual Function 7 (8 minus 1) on queue - 2 of that VF. - - The driver also supports using the user-defined field to specify 2 bytes of - arbitrary data to match within the packet payload in addition to the regular - fields. The data is specified in the lower 32bits of the user-def field in - the following way: - - +----------------------------+---------------------------+ - | 31 28 24 20 16 | 15 12 8 4 0| - +----------------------------+---------------------------+ - | offset into packet payload | 2 bytes of flexible data | - +----------------------------+---------------------------+ - - As an example, - - ... user-def 0x4FFFF .... - - means to match the value 0xFFFF 4 bytes into the packet payload. Note that - the offset is based on the beginning of the payload, and not the beginning - of the packet. Thus - - flow-type tcp4 ... user-def 0x8BEAF .... - - would match TCP/IPv4 packets which have the value 0xBEAF 8bytes into the - TCP/IPv4 payload. - - For ICMP, the hardware parses the ICMP header as 4 bytes of header and 4 - bytes of payload, so if you want to match an ICMP frames payload you may need - to add 4 to the offset in order to match the data. - - Furthermore, the offset can only be up to a value of 64, as the hardware - will only read up to 64 bytes of data from the payload. It must also be even - as the flexible data is 2 bytes long and must be aligned to byte 0 of the - packet payload. - - When programming filters, the hardware is limited to using a single input - set for each flow type. This means that it is an error to program two - different filters with the same type that don't match on the same fields. - Thus the second of the following two commands will fail: - - ethtool -N <device> flow-type tcp4 src-ip 192.168.0.7 action 5 - ethtool -N <device> flow-type tcp4 dst-ip 192.168.15.18 action 1 - - This is because the first filter will be accepted and reprogram the input - set for TCPv4 filters, but the second filter will be unable to reprogram the - input set until all the conflicting TCPv4 filters are first removed. - - Note that the user-defined flexible offset is also considered part of the - input set and cannot be programmed separately for multiple filters of the - same type. However, the flexible data is not part of the input set and - multiple filters may use the same offset but match against different data. - - Data Center Bridging (DCB) - -------------------------- - DCB configuration is not currently supported. - - FCoE - ---- - The driver supports Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and Data Center - Bridging (DCB) functionality. Configuring DCB and FCoE is outside the scope - of this driver doc. Refer to http://www.open-fcoe.org/ for FCoE project - information and http://www.open-lldp.org/ or email list - e1000-eedc@lists.sourceforge.net for DCB information. - - MAC and VLAN anti-spoofing feature - ---------------------------------- - When a malicious driver attempts to send a spoofed packet, it is dropped by - the hardware and not transmitted. An interrupt is sent to the PF driver - notifying it of the spoof attempt. - - When a spoofed packet is detected the PF driver will send the following - message to the system log (displayed by the "dmesg" command): - - Spoof event(s) detected on VF (n) - - Where n=the VF that attempted to do the spoofing. - - -Performance Tuning -================== - -An excellent article on performance tuning can be found at: - -http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/2008/downloads/pdf/Thursday/Mark_Wagner.pdf - - -Known Issues -============ - - -Support -======= - -For general information, go to the Intel support website at: - - http://support.intel.com - -or the Intel Wired Networking project hosted by Sourceforge at: - - http://e1000.sourceforge.net - -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.sourceforge.net and copy -netdev@vger.kernel.org. |