| 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118 |
- 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 oldconfig/silentoldconfig/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
- 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.
|
