From 00091c0da136f36feaa974f761fd0fc8905a29c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Saeed Mahameed Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 17:15:13 -0700 Subject: Documentation: net: mlx5: Add mlx5 initial documentation Add initial documentation for mlx5 driver. Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed --- Documentation/networking/device_drivers/index.rst | 1 + .../networking/device_drivers/mellanox/mlx5.rst | 101 +++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 102 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/networking/device_drivers/mellanox/mlx5.rst (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/index.rst b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/index.rst index 75fa537763a4..24598d5f8ffa 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/index.rst @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ Contents: intel/i40e intel/iavf intel/ice + mellanox/mlx5 .. only:: subproject diff --git a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/mellanox/mlx5.rst b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/mellanox/mlx5.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..0be802186d12 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/mellanox/mlx5.rst @@ -0,0 +1,101 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR Linux-OpenIB + +================================================= +Mellanox ConnectX(R) mlx5 core VPI Network Driver +================================================= + +Copyright (c) 2019, Mellanox Technologies LTD. + +Contents +======== + +- `Enabling the driver and kconfig options`_ + +Enabling the driver and kconfig options +================================================ + +| mlx5 core is modular and most of the major mlx5 core driver features can be selected (compiled in/out) +| at build time via kernel Kconfig flags. +| Basic features, ethernet net device rx/tx offloads and XDP, are available with the most basic flags +| CONFIG_MLX5_CORE=y/m and CONFIG_MLX5_CORE_EN=y. +| For the list of advanced features please see below. + +**CONFIG_MLX5_CORE=(y/m/n)** (module mlx5_core.ko) + +| The driver can be enabled by choosing CONFIG_MLX5_CORE=y/m in kernel config. +| This will provide mlx5 core driver for mlx5 ulps to interface with (mlx5e, mlx5_ib). + + +**CONFIG_MLX5_CORE_EN=(y/n)** + +| Choosing this option will allow basic ethernet netdevice support with all of the standard rx/tx offloads. +| mlx5e is the mlx5 ulp driver which provides netdevice kernel interface, when chosen, mlx5e will be +| built-in into mlx5_core.ko. + + +**CONFIG_MLX5_EN_ARFS=(y/n)** + +| Enables Hardware-accelerated receive flow steering (arfs) support, and ntuple filtering. +| https://community.mellanox.com/s/article/howto-configure-arfs-on-connectx-4 + + +**CONFIG_MLX5_EN_RXNFC=(y/n)** + +| Enables ethtool receive network flow classification, which allows user defined +| flow rules to direct traffic into arbitrary rx queue via ethtool set/get_rxnfc API. + + +**CONFIG_MLX5_CORE_EN_DCB=(y/n)**: + +| Enables `Data Center Bridging (DCB) Support `_. + + +**CONFIG_MLX5_MPFS=(y/n)** + +| Ethernet Multi-Physical Function Switch (MPFS) support in ConnectX NIC. +| MPFs is required for when `Multi-Host `_ configuration is enabled to allow passing +| user configured unicast MAC addresses to the requesting PF. + + +**CONFIG_MLX5_ESWITCH=(y/n)** + +| Ethernet SRIOV E-Switch support in ConnectX NIC. E-Switch provides internal SRIOV packet steering +| and switching for the enabled VFs and PF in two available modes: +| 1) `Legacy SRIOV mode (L2 mac vlan steering based) `_. +| 2) `Switchdev mode (eswitch offloads) `_. + + +**CONFIG_MLX5_CORE_IPOIB=(y/n)** + +| IPoIB offloads & acceleration support. +| Requires CONFIG_MLX5_CORE_EN to provide an accelerated interface for the rdma +| IPoIB ulp netdevice. + + +**CONFIG_MLX5_FPGA=(y/n)** + +| Build support for the Innova family of network cards by Mellanox Technologies. +| Innova network cards are comprised of a ConnectX chip and an FPGA chip on one board. +| If you select this option, the mlx5_core driver will include the Innova FPGA core and allow +| building sandbox-specific client drivers. + + +**CONFIG_MLX5_EN_IPSEC=(y/n)** + +| Enables `IPSec XFRM cryptography-offload accelaration `_. + +**CONFIG_MLX5_EN_TLS=(y/n)** + +| TLS cryptography-offload accelaration. + + +**CONFIG_MLX5_INFINIBAND=(y/n/m)** (module mlx5_ib.ko) + +| Provides low-level InfiniBand/RDMA and `RoCE `_ support. + + +**External options** ( Choose if the corresponding mlx5 feature is required ) + +- CONFIG_PTP_1588_CLOCK: When chosen, mlx5 ptp support will be enabled +- CONFIG_VXLAN: When chosen, mlx5 vxaln support will be enabled. +- CONFIG_MLXFW: When chosen, mlx5 firmware flashing support will be enabled (via devlink and ethtool). -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b