.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
.. include:: <isonum.txt>
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Marvell(Aquantia) AQtion Driver
===============================
For the aQuantia Multi-Gigabit PCI Express Family of Ethernet Adapters
.. Contents
- Identifying Your Adapter
- Configuration
- Supported ethtool options
- Command Line Parameters
- Config file parameters
- Support
- License
Identifying Your Adapter
========================
The driver in this release is compatible with AQC-100, AQC-107, AQC-108
based ethernet adapters.
SFP+ Devices (for AQC-100 based adapters)
-----------------------------------------
This release tested with passive Direct Attach Cables (DAC) and SFP+/LC
Optical Transceiver.
Configuration
=============
Viewing Link Messages
---------------------
Link messages will not be displayed to the console if the distribution is
restricting system messages. In order to see network driver link messages on
your console, set dmesg to eight by entering the following::
dmesg -n 8
.. note::
This setting is not saved across reboots.
Jumbo Frames
------------
The driver supports Jumbo Frames for all adapters. Jumbo Frames support is
enabled by changing the MTU to a value larger than the default of 1500.
The maximum value for the MTU is 16000. Use the `ip` command to
increase the MTU size. For example::
ip link set mtu 16000 dev enp1s0
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.
NAPI
----
NAPI (Rx polling mode) is supported in the atlantic driver.
Supported ethtool options
=========================
Viewing adapter settings
------------------------
::
ethtool <ethX>
Output example::
Settings for enp1s0:
Supported ports: [ TP ]
Supported link modes: 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Full
10000baseT/Full
2500baseT/Full
5000baseT/Full
Supported pause frame use: Symmetric
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Supported FEC modes: Not reported
Advertised link modes: 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Full
10000baseT/Full
2500baseT/Full
5000baseT/Full
Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric
Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Advertised FEC modes: Not reported
Speed: 10000Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: Twisted Pair
PHYAD: 0
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: on
MDI-X: Unknown
Supports Wake-on: g
Wake-on: d
Link detected: yes
.. note::
AQrate speeds (2.5/5 Gb/s) will be displayed only with linux kernels > 4.10.
But you can still use these speeds::
ethtool -s eth0 autoneg off speed 2500
Viewing adapter information
---------------------------
::
ethtool -i <ethX>
Output example::
driver: atlantic
version: 5.2.0-050200rc5-generic-kern
firmware-version: 3.1.78
expansion-rom-version:
bus-info: 0000:01:00.0
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: no
supports-eeprom-access: no
supports-register-dump: yes
supports-priv-flags: no
Viewing Ethernet adapter statistics
-----------------------------------
::
ethtool -S <ethX>
Output example::
NIC statistics:
InPackets: 13238607
InUCast: 13293852
InMCast: 52
InBCast: 3
InErrors: 0
OutPackets: 23703019
OutUCast: 23704941
OutMCast: 67
OutBCast: 11
InUCastOctects: 213182760
OutUCastOctects: 22698443
InMCastOctects: 6600
OutMCastOctects: 8776
InBCastOctects: 192
OutBCastOctects: 704
InOctects: 2131839552
OutOctects: 226938073
InPacketsDma: 95532300
OutPacketsDma: 59503397
InOctetsDma: 1137102462
OutOctetsDma: 2394339518
InDroppedDma: 0
Queue[0] InPackets: 23567131
Queue[0] OutPackets: 20070028
Queue[0] InJumboPackets: 0
Queue[0] InLroPackets: 0
Queue[0] InErrors: 0
Queue[1] InPackets: 45428967
Queue[1] OutPackets: 11306178
Queue[1] InJumboPackets: 0
Queue[1] InLroPackets: 0
Queue[1] InErrors: 0
Queue[2] InPackets: 3187011
Queue[2] OutPackets: 13080381
Queue[2] InJumboPackets: 0
Queue[2] InLroPackets: 0
Queue[2] InErrors: 0
Queue[3] InPackets: 23349136
Queue[3] OutPackets: 15046810
Queue[3] InJumboPackets: 0
Queue[3] InLroPackets: 0
Queue[3] InErrors: 0
Interrupt coalescing support
----------------------------
ITR mode, TX/RX coalescing timings could be viewed with::
ethtool -c <ethX>
and changed with::
ethtool -C <ethX> tx-usecs <usecs> rx-usecs <usecs>
To disable coalescing::
ethtool -C <ethX> tx-usecs 0 rx-usecs 0 tx-max-frames 1 tx-max-frames 1
Wake on LAN support
-------------------
WOL support by magic packet::
ethtool -s <ethX> wol g
To disable WOL::
ethtool -s <ethX> wol d
Set and check the driver message level
--------------------------------------
Set message level
::
ethtool -s <ethX> msglvl <level>
Level values:
====== =============================
0x0001 general driver status.
0x0002 hardware probing.
0x0004 link state.
0x0008 periodic status check.
0x0010 interface being brought down.
0x0020 interface being brought up.
0x0040 receive error.
0x0080 transmit error.
0x0200 interrupt handling.
0x0400 transmit completion.
0x0800 receive completion.
0x1000 packet contents.
0x2000 hardware status.
0x4000 Wake-on-LAN status.
====== =============================
By default, the level of debugging messages is set 0x0001(general driver status).
Check message level
::
ethtool <ethX> | grep "Current message level"
If you want to disable the output of messages::
ethtool -s <ethX> msglvl 0
RX flow rules (ntuple filters)
------------------------------
There are separate rules supported, that applies in that order:
1. 16 VLAN ID rules
2. 16 L2 EtherType rules
3. 8 L3/L4 5-Tuple rules
The driver utilizes the ethtool interface for configuring ntuple filters,
via ``ethtool -N <device> <filter>``.
To enable or disable the RX flow rules::
ethtool -K ethX ntuple <on|off>
When disabling ntuple filters, all the user programmed filters are
flushed from the driver cache and hardware. All needed filters must
be re-added when ntuple is re-enabled.
Because of the fixed order of the rules, the location of filters is also fixed:
- Locations 0 - 15 for VLAN ID filters
- Locations 16 - 31 for L2 EtherType filters
- Locations 32 - 39 for L3/L4 5-tuple filters (locations 32, 36 for IPv6)
The L3/L4 5-tuple (protocol, source and destination IP address, source and
destination TCP/UDP/SCTP port) is compared against 8 filters. For IPv4, up to
8 source and destination addresses can be matched. For IPv6, up to 2 pairs of
addresses can be supported. Source and destination ports are only compared for
TCP/UDP/SCTP packets.
To add a filter that directs packet to queue 5, use
``<-N|-U|--config-nfc|--config-ntuple>`` switch::
ethtool -N <ethX> flow-type udp4 src-ip 10.0.0.1 dst-ip 10.0.0.2 src-port 2000 dst-port 2001 action 5 <loc 32>
- action is the queue number.
- loc is the rule number.
For ``flow-type ip4|udp4|tcp4|sctp4|ip6|udp6|tcp6|sctp6`` you must set the loc
number within 32 - 39.
For ``flow-type ip4|udp4|tcp4|sctp4|ip6|udp6|tcp6|sctp6`` you can set 8 rules
for traffic IPv4 or you can set 2 rules for traffic IPv6. Loc number traffic
IPv6 is 32 and 36.
At the moment you can not use IPv4 and IPv6 filters at the same time.
Example filter for IPv6 filter traffic::
sudo ethtool -N <ethX> flow-type tcp6 src-ip 2001:db8:0:f101::1 dst-ip 2001:db8:0:f101::2 action 1 loc 32
sudo ethtool -N <ethX> flow-type ip6 src-ip 2001:db8:0:f101::2 dst-ip 2001:db8:0:f101::5 action -1 loc 36
Example filter for IPv4 filter traffic::
sudo ethtool -N <ethX> flow-type udp4 src-ip 10.0.0.4 dst-ip 10.0.0.7 src-port 2000 dst-port 2001 loc 32
sudo ethtool -N <ethX> flow-type tcp4 src-ip 10.0.0.3 dst-ip 10.0.0.9 src-port 2000 dst-port 2001 loc 33
sudo ethtool -N <ethX> flow-type ip4 src-ip 10.0.0.6 dst-ip 10.0.0.4 loc 34
If you set action -1, then all traffic corresponding to the filter will be discarded.
The maximum value action is 31.
The VLAN filter (VLAN id) is compared against 16 filters.
VLAN id must be accompanied by mask 0xF000. That is to distinguish VLAN filter
from L2 Ethertype filter with UserPriority since both User Priority and VLAN ID
are passed in the same 'vlan' parameter.
To add a filter that directs packets from VLAN 2001 to queue 5::
ethtool -N <ethX> flow-type ip4 vlan 2001 m 0xF000 action 1 loc 0
L2 EtherType filters allows filter packet by EtherType field or both EtherType
and User Priority (PCP) field of 802.1Q.
UserPriority (vlan) parameter must be accompanied by mask 0x1FFF. That is to
distinguish VLAN filter from L2 Ethertype filter with UserPriority since both
User Priority and VLAN ID are passed in the same 'vlan' parameter.
To add a filter that directs IP4 packess of priority 3 to queue 3::
ethtool -N <ethX> flow-type ether proto 0x800 vlan 0x600 m 0x1FFF action 3 loc 16
To see the list of filters currently present::
ethtool <-u|-n|--show-nfc|--show-ntuple> <ethX>
Rules may be deleted from the table itself. This is done using::
sudo ethtool <-N|-U|--config-nfc|--config-ntuple> <ethX> delete <loc>
- loc is the rule number to be deleted.
Rx filters is an interface to load the filter table that funnels all flow
into queue 0 unless an alternative queue is specified using "action". In that
case, any flow that matches the filter criteria will be directed to the
appropriate queue. RX filters is supported on all kernels 2.6.30 and later.
RSS for UDP
-----------
Currently, NIC does not support RSS for fragmented IP packets, which leads to
incorrect working of RSS for fragmented UDP traffic. To disable RSS for UDP the
RX Flow L3/L4 rule may be used.
Example::
ethtool -N eth0 flow-type udp4 action 0 loc 32
UDP GSO hardware offload
------------------------
UDP GSO allows to boost UDP tx rates by offloading UDP headers allocation
into hardware. A special userspace socket option is required for this,
could be validated with /kernel/tools/testing/selftests/net/::
udpgso_bench_tx -u -4 -D 10.0.1.1 -s 6300 -S 100
Will cause sending out of 100 byte sized UDP packets formed from single
6300 bytes user buffer.
UDP GSO is configured by::
ethtool -K eth0 tx-udp-segmentation on
Private flags (testing)
-----------------------
Atlantic driver supports private flags for hardware custom features::
$ ethtool --show-priv-flags ethX
Private flags for ethX:
DMASystemLoopback : off
PKTSystemLoopback : off
DMANetworkLoopback : off
PHYInternalLoopback: off
PHYExternalLoopback: off
Example::
$ ethtool --set-priv-flags ethX DMASystemLoopback on
DMASystemLoopback: DMA Host loopback.
PKTSystemLoopback: Packet buffer host loopback.
DMANetworkLoopback: Network side loopback on DMA block.
PHYInternalLoopback: Internal loopback on Phy.
PHYExternalLoopback: External loopback on Phy (with loopback ethernet cable).
Command Line Parameters
=======================
The following command line parameters are available on atlantic driver:
aq_itr -Interrupt throttling mode
---------------------------------
Accepted values: 0, 1, 0xFFFF
Default value: 0xFFFF
====== ==============================================================
0 Disable interrupt throttling.
1 Enable interrupt throttling and use specified tx and rx rates.
0xFFFF Auto throttling mode. Driver will choose the best RX and TX
interrupt throttling settings based on link speed.
====== ==============================================================
aq_itr_tx - TX interrupt throttle rate
--------------------------------------
Accepted values: 0 - 0x1FF
Default value: 0
TX side throttling in microseconds. Adapter will setup maximum interrupt delay
to this value. Minimum interrupt delay will be a half of this value
aq_itr_rx - RX interrupt throttle rate
--------------------------------------
Accepted values: 0 - 0x1FF
Default value: 0
RX side throttling in microseconds. Adapter will setup maximum interrupt delay
to this value. Minimum interrupt delay will be a half of this value
.. note::
ITR settings could be changed in runtime by ethtool -c means (see below)
Config file parameters
======================
For some fine tuning and performance optimizations,
some parameters can be changed in the {source_dir}/aq_cfg.h file.
AQ_CFG_RX_PAGEORDER
-------------------
Default value: 0
RX page order override. That's a power of 2 number of RX pages allocated for
each descriptor. Received descriptor size is still limited by
AQ_CFG_RX_FRAME_MAX.
Increasing pageorder makes page reuse better (actual on iommu enabled systems).
AQ_CFG_RX_REFILL_THRES
----------------------
Default value: 32
RX refill threshold. RX path will not refill freed descriptors until the
specified number of free descriptors is observed. Larger values may help
better page reuse but may lead to packet drops as well.
AQ_CFG_VECS_DEF
---------------
Number of queues
Valid Range: 0 - 8 (up to AQ_CFG_VECS_MAX)
Default value: 8
Notice this value will be capped by the number of cores available on the system.
AQ_CFG_IS_RSS_DEF
-----------------
Enable/disable Receive Side Scaling
This feature allows the adapter to distribute receive processing
across multiple CPU-cores and to prevent from overloading a single CPU core.
Valid values
== ========
0 disabled
1 enabled
== ========
Default value: 1
AQ_CFG_NUM_RSS_QUEUES_DEF
-------------------------
Number of queues for Receive Side Scaling
Valid Range: 0 - 8 (up to AQ_CFG_VECS_DEF)
Default value: AQ_CFG_VECS_DEF
AQ_CFG_IS_LRO_DEF
-----------------
Enable/disable Large Receive Offload
This offload enables the adapter to coalesce multiple TCP segments and indicate
them as a single coalesced unit to the OS networking subsystem.
The system consumes less energy but it also introduces more latency in packets
processing.
Valid values
== ========
0 disabled
1 enabled
== ========
Default value: 1
AQ_CFG_TX_CLEAN_BUDGET
----------------------
Maximum descriptors to cleanup on TX at once.
Default value: 256
After the aq_cfg.h file changed the driver must be rebuilt to take effect.
Support
=======
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 aqn_support@marvell.com
License
=======
aQuantia Corporation Network Driver
Copyright |copy| 2014 - 2019 aQuantia Corporation.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License,
version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.