| 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 |
| ======================== |
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| The driver in this release is compatible with AQC-100, AQC-107, AQC-108 based ethernet adapters. |
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| |
| SFP+ Devices (for AQC-100 based adapters) |
| ---------------------------------- |
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| This release tested with passive Direct Attach Cables (DAC) and SFP+/LC Optical Transceiver. |
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| 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: |
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| dmesg -n 8 |
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| 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: |
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| ip link set mtu 16000 dev enp1s0 |
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| 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: |
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| 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 |
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| |
| 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> |
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| and changed with: |
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| ethtool -C <ethX> tx-usecs <usecs> rx-usecs <usecs> |
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| To disable coalescing: |
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| ethtool -C <ethX> tx-usecs 0 rx-usecs 0 tx-max-frames 1 tx-max-frames 1 |
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| Wake on LAN support |
| --------------------------------- |
| |
| WOL support by magic packet: |
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| ethtool -s <ethX> wol g |
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| To disable WOL: |
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| ethtool -s <ethX> wol d |
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| Set and check the driver message level |
| --------------------------------- |
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| Set message level |
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| ethtool -s <ethX> msglvl <level> |
| |
| Level values: |
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| 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). |
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| Check message level |
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| ethtool <ethX> | grep "Current message level" |
| |
| If you want to disable the output of messages |
| |
| ethtool -s <ethX> msglvl 0 |
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| 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: |
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| ethtool -K ethX ntuple <on|off> |
| |
| When disabling ntuple filters, all the user programed 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. |
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| |
| 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 |
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| |
| 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 |
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| |
| To see the list of filters currently present: |
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| ethtool <-u|-n|--show-nfc|--show-ntuple> <ethX> |
| |
| Rules may be deleted from the table itself. This is done using: |
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| 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 |
| |
| 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 throtting 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. Thats 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 support@aquantia.com |
| |
| License |
| ======= |
| |
| aQuantia Corporation Network Driver |
| Copyright(c) 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. |
