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.Dd June 16, 2013
.Dt BNX 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm bnx
.Nd "Broadcom BCM57785/BCM5718 families 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet device"
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "device miibus"
.Cd "device bnx"
.Pp
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the
following line in
.Pa /boot/loader.conf :
.Bd -literal -offset indent
if_bnx_load="YES"
.Ed
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
driver supports the PCIe Ethernet adapters based on
Broadcom BCM57785/BCM5718 families chips.
.Pp
The following features are supported in the
.Nm
driver:
.Pp
.Bl -item -offset indent -compact
.It
IP/TCP/UDP checksum offloading
.It
TCP segmentation offloading (TSO)
.It
VLAN tag stripping and inserting
.It
Interrupt coalescing
.It
Receive Side Scaling (RSS),
up to 4 reception queues
.It
Multiple vector MSI-X
.It
Multiple transmission queues
(BCM5719 and BCM5720 only),
up to 4 transmission queues
.El
.Pp
By default,
the
.Nm
driver will try enabling as many reception queues as are allowed
by the number of CPUs in the system.
For BCM5719 and BCM5720,
in addition to the reception queues,
by default,
the
.Nm
driver will try enabling as many transmission queues as are allowed
by the number of CPUs in the system
and the number of enabled reception queues.
.Pp
The
.Nm
driver supports the following
.Ar media
types:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width 10baseT/UTP -compact
.It Cm autoselect
Enable autoselection of the media types and options
.Pp
.It Cm 10baseT/UTP
Set 10Mbps operation.
The
.Ar mediaopt
option can also be used to select either
.Ar full-duplex
or
.Ar half-duplex
modes.
.Pp
.It Cm 100baseTX
Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
The
.Ar mediaopt
option can also be used to select either
.Ar full-duplex
or
.Ar half-duplex
modes.
.Pp
.It Cm 1000baseT
Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation.
The
.Ar mediaopt
option can only be set
.Ar full-duplex
mode.
.El
.Pp
The
.Nm
driver supports the following
.Ar media
options:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width full-duplex -compact
.It Cm full-duplex
Force full duplex operation.
.Pp
.It Cm half-duplex
Force half duplex operation.
.El
.Pp
Note that the 1000baseT media type is only available
if it is supported by the adapter.
For more information on configuring this device,
see
.Xr ifconfig 8 .
The
.Nm
driver supports
.Xr polling 4 .
.Sh TUNABLES
.Em X
is the device unit number.
.Bl -tag -width ".Va hw.bnxX.npoll.offset"
.It Va hw.bnx.rx_rings Va hw.bnxX.rx_rings
If MSI-X is used,
this tunable specifies the number of reception queues to be enabled.
Maximum allowed value for these tunables is 4 and
it must be power of 2 aligned.
Setting these tunables to 0 allows the driver to enable as many reception queues
as allowed by the number of CPUs.
.It Va hw.bnx.tx_rings Va hw.bnxX.tx_rings
For BCM5719 and BCM5720,
if MSI-X is used,
this tunable specifies the number of transmission queues to be enabled.
Maximum allowed value for these tunables is 4,
it must be power of 2 aligned
and it must be less than or equal to the number of reception queues enabled.
Setting these tunables to 0 allows the driver to enable as many transmission queues
as allowed by the number of CPUs and number reception queues enabled.
.It Va hw.bnx.msix.enable Va hw.bnxX.msix.enable
By default,
the driver will use MSI-X
if it is supported.
This behaviour can be turned off by setting this tunable to 0.
.It Va hw.bnxX.msix.offset
For BCM5719 and BCM5720,
if more than 1 reception queues
and more than 1 transmission queues are enabled,
this tunable specifies the leading target CPU for transmission
and reception queues processing.
The value specificed must be aligned to the number of reception queues
enabled and must be less than the power of 2 number of CPUs.
.It Va hw.bnxX.msix.txoff
If more than 1 reception queues are enabled
and only 1 transmission queue is enabled,
this tunable specifies the target CPU for transmission queue processing.
The value specificed must be less than the power of 2 number of CPUs.
.It Va hw.bnxX.msix.rxoff
If more than 1 reception queues are enabled
and only 1 transmission queue is enabled,
this tunable specifies the leading target CPU for reception queues processing.
The value specificed must be aligned to the number of reception queues
enabled and must be less than the power of 2 number of CPUs.
.It Va hw.bnx.msi.enable Va hw.bnxX.msi.enable
If MSI-X is disabled and MSI is supported,
the driver will use MSI.
This behavior can be turned off by setting this tunable to 0.
.It Va hw.bnxX.msi.cpu
If MSI is used, it specifies the MSI's target CPU.
.It Va hw.bnxX.npoll.offset
If only 1 reception queue and only 1 transmission queue are enabled
or more than 1 reception queues and more than 1 transmission queues are enabled,
this tunable specifies the leading target CPU for transmission and reception
queues
.Xr polling 4
processing.
The value specificed must be aligned to the number of reception queues
enabled and must be less than the power of 2 number of CPUs.
.It Va hw.bnxX.npoll.txoff
If more than 1 reception queues are enabled
and only 1 transmission queue is enabled,
this tunable specifies the target CPU for transmission queue
.Xr polling 4
processing.
The value specificed must be less than the power of 2 number of CPUs.
.It Va hw.bnxX.npoll.rxoff
If more than 1 reception queues are enabled
and only 1 transmission queue is enabled,
this tunable specifies the leading target CPU for reception queue
.Xr polling 4
processing.
The value specificed must be aligned to the number of reception queues
enabled and must be less than the power of 2 number of CPUs.
.El
.Sh MIB Variables
A number of per-interface variables are implemented in the
.Va hw.bnx Ns Em X
branch of the
.Xr sysctl 3
MIB.
.Bl -tag -width "rx_coal_bds_poll"
.It Va rx_rings
Number of reception queues enabled (read-only).
Use the tunable
.Va hw.bnx.rx_rings
or
.Va hw.bnxX.rx_rings
to configure it.
.It Va tx_rings
Number of transmission queues enabled (read-only).
Use the tunable
.Va hw.bnx.tx_rings
or
.Va hw.bnxX.tx_rings
to configure it.
.It Va rx_coal_ticks
How often status block should be updated and interrupt should be generated
by the device,
due to receiving packets.
It is used together with
.Va rx_coal_bds
to achieve RX interrupt moderation.
Default value is 150 (microseconds).
.It Va tx_coal_ticks
How often status block should be updated and interrupt should be generated
by the device,
due to sending packets.
It is used together with
.Va tx_coal_bds
to achieve TX interrupt moderation.
Default value is 1023 (microseconds).
.It Va rx_coal_bds
Maximum number of BDs which must be received by the device
before the device updates the status block and generates interrupt.
It is used together with
.Va rx_coal_ticks
to achieve RX interrupt moderation.
Default value is 0 (disabled).
.It Va rx_coal_bds_poll
Maximum number of BDs which must be received by the device
before the device updates the status block during
.Xr polling 4 .
It is used together with
.Va rx_coal_ticks
to reduce the frequency of status block updating due to RX.
Default value is 32.
.It Va tx_coal_bds
Maximum number of sending BDs which must be processed by the device
before the device updates the status block and generates interrupt.
It is used together with
.Va tx_coal_ticks
to achieve TX interrupt moderation.
Default value is 128.
.It Va tx_coal_bds_poll
Maximum number of sending BDs which must be processed by the device
before the device updates the status block during
.Xr polling 4 .
It is used together with
.Va tx_coal_ticks
to reduce the frequency of status block updating due to TX.
Default value is 64.
.It Va force_defrag
Force defragment the sending mbuf chains,
if the mbuf chain is not a TSO segment and contains more than 1 mbufs.
This improves transmission performance on certain low end chips,
however,
this also increases CPU load.
Default value is 0 (disabled).
.It Va tx_wreg
The number of transmission descriptors should be setup before the hardware
register is written.
Setting this value too high will have negative effect
on transmission timeliness.
Setting this value too low will hurt overall transmission performance
due to the frequent hardware register writing.
Default value is 8.
.It Va std_refill
Number of packets should be received
before the standard reception producer ring is refilled.
Setting this value too low will cause extra thread scheduling cost.
Setting this value too high will make chip drop incoming packets.
Default value is 128 / number of reception queues.
.It Va rx_coal_bds_int
Maximum number of BDs which must be received by the device
before the device updates the status block
during host interrupt processing.
Default value is 80.
.It Va tx_coal_bds_int
Maximum number of sending BDs which must be processed by the device
before the device updates the status block
during host interrupt processing.
Default value is 64.
.It Va npoll_offset
See the tunable
.Va hw.bnxX.npoll.offset .
The set value will take effect the next time
.Xr polling 4
is enabled on the device.
.It Va npoll_txoff
See the tunable
.Va hw.bnxX.npoll.txoff .
The set value will take effect the next time
.Xr polling 4
is enabled on the device.
.It Va npoll_rxoff
See the tunable
.Va hw.bnxX.npoll.rxoff .
The set value will take effect the next time
.Xr polling 4
is enabled on the device.
.It Va norxbds
Number of times the standard reception producer ring is short
of reception BDs.
If this value grows fast,
it is usually an indication that
.Va std_refill
is set too high.
.It Va errors
Number of errors, both critical and non-critical, happened.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr arp 4 ,
.Xr bge 4 ,
.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
.Xr miibus 4 ,
.Xr netintro 4 ,
.Xr ng_ether 4 ,
.Xr polling 4 ,
.Xr vlan 4 ,
.Xr ifconfig 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
device driver first appeared in
.Dx 3.1 .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
The
.Nm
driver was based on
.Xr bge 4
written by
.An Bill Paul
.Aq wpaul@windriver.com .
Sepherosa Ziehau added receive side scaling,
multiple transmission queues
and multiple MSI-X support to
.Dx .