man/man4/mxge.4

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.Dd July 13, 2009
.Dt MXGE 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm mxge
.Nd "Myricom Myri10GE 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter driver"
.Sh SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel,
place the following lines in your
kernel configuration file:
.Bd -ragged -offset indent
.Cd "device mxge"
.Ed
.Pp
Alternatively, to load the driver as a
module at boot time, place the following line in
.Xr loader.conf 5 :
.Bd -literal -offset indent
if_mxge_load="YES"
.Ed
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
driver provides support for PCI Express 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters based on
the Myricom LANai Z8E chip.
The driver supports Transmit/Receive checksum offload and hardware vlan
tagging.
.\"Support for Jumbo frames is not yet implemented, while support for TCP
.\"Segmentation Offload (TSO) as well as Large Receive Offload (LRO) is not
.\"implemented in
For further hardware information, see
.Pa http://www.myri.com/ .
.Pp
For questions related to hardware requirements,
refer to the documentation supplied with your Myri10GE adapter.
All hardware requirements listed apply to use with
.Dx .
.Sh HARDWARE
The
.Nm
driver supports 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters based on the
Myricom LANai Z8E chips:
.Pp
.Bl -bullet -compact
.It
Myricom 10GBase-CX4 (10G-PCIE-8A-C, 10G-PCIE-8AL-C)
.It
Myricom 10GBase-R (10G-PCIE-8A-R, 10G-PCIE-8AL-R)
.It
Myricom 10G XAUI over ribbon fiber (10G-PCIE-8A-Q, 10G-PCIE-8AL-Q)
.El
.Sh LOADER TUNABLES
Tunables can be set at the
.Xr loader 8
prompt before booting the kernel or stored in
.Xr loader.conf 5 .
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Va hw.mxge.flow_control_enabled
Whether or not hardware flow control is enabled on the adapter.
The default value is 1.
.It Va hw.mxge.intr_coal_delay
This value delays the generation of all interrupts in units of
1 microsecond.
The default value is 30.
.It Va hw.mxge.skip_pio_read
This value determines whether or not the driver may omit doing a
PIO read in the interrupt handler which ensures that the interrupt
line has been deasserted when using xPIC interrupts.
A non-zero value
may result in lower CPU overhead, however it may also result in
spurious interrupts.
The default value is 0.
This tunable has no effect when the device is
using MSI or MSI-X interrupts.
.It Va hw.mxge.max_slices
This value determines the maximum number of slices the driver
will attempt to use.
The default value is 1.
A slice is comprised
of a set of receive queues and an associated interrupt thread.
When using multiple slices, the NIC hashes traffic to different slices
based on the value of
.Va hw.mxge.rss_hash_type .
Using multiple slices requires that your motherboard and Myri10GE NIC
both be capable of MSI-X.
Older Myri10GE NICs can be field upgraded to add
MSI-X using the "10G NIC Tool Kit" for
.Fx
which is available from
.Pa http://www.myri.com/scs/download-10g-tools.html .
.Pp
.It Va hw.mxge.rss_hash_type
This value determines how incoming traffic is steered to different
slices.
This tunable is ignored when using just a single slice.
The legal values for this tunable are:
.Bl -tag -width "XXXX"
.It 1
Hash on the source and destination IPv4 addresses.
.It 2
Hash on source and destination IPv4 addresses and if the packet
is TCP, then also hash on the TCP source and destination ports.
.It 4
Hash on the TCP or UDP source ports.
This is the default value.
.El
.El
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
.Bl -diag
.It "mxge%d: Unable to allocate bus resource: memory"
A fatal initialization error has occurred.
.It "mxge%d: Unable to allocate bus resource: interrupt"
A fatal initialization error has occurred.
.It "mxge%d: Could not find firmware image %s"
The appropriate firmware kld module was not installed.
This is a non-fatal initialization error, but will
result in running in a reduced performance mode.
.El
.Sh SUPPORT
For general information and support,
go to the Myricom support website at:
.Pa http://www.myri.com/scs/ .
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr altq 4 ,
.Xr arp 4 ,
.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
.Xr netintro 4 ,
.Xr ng_ether 4 ,
.Xr ifconfig 8 ,
.Xr firmware 9
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
device driver first appeared in
.Fx 6.3 .
It was first ported to
.Dx 2.3 .
.Sh AUTHORS
The
.Nm
driver was written by
.An Andrew Gallatin Aq Mt gallatin@FreeBSD.org .