Linux Base Driver for 10 Gigabit PCI Express Intel(R) Network Connection
========================================================================
-March 10, 2009
-
+Intel Gigabit Linux driver.
+Copyright(c) 1999 - 2010 Intel Corporation.
Contents
========
-- In This Release
- Identifying Your Adapter
-- Building and Installation
- Additional Configurations
+- Performance Tuning
+- Known Issues
- Support
+Identifying Your Adapter
+========================
+The driver in this release is compatible with 82598 and 82599-based Intel
+Network Connections.
-In This Release
-===============
+For more information on how to identify your adapter, go to the Adapter &
+Driver ID Guide at:
-This file describes the ixgbe Linux Base Driver for the 10 Gigabit PCI
-Express Intel(R) Network Connection. This driver includes support for
-Itanium(R)2-based systems.
+ http://support.intel.com/support/network/sb/CS-012904.htm
-For questions related to hardware requirements, refer to the documentation
-supplied with your 10 Gigabit adapter. All hardware requirements listed apply
-to use with Linux.
+SFP+ Devices with Pluggable Optics
+----------------------------------
-The following features are available in this kernel:
- - Native VLANs
- - Channel Bonding (teaming)
- - SNMP
- - Generic Receive Offload
- - Data Center Bridging
+82599-BASED ADAPTERS
-Channel Bonding documentation can be found in the Linux kernel source:
-/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
+NOTES: If your 82599-based Intel(R) Network Adapter came with Intel optics, or
+is an Intel(R) Ethernet Server Adapter X520-2, then it only supports Intel
+optics and/or the direct attach cables listed below.
-Ethtool, lspci, and ifconfig can be used to display device and driver
-specific information.
+When 82599-based SFP+ devices are connected back to back, they should be set to
+the same Speed setting via Ethtool. Results may vary if you mix speed settings.
+82598-based adapters support all passive direct attach cables that comply
+with SFF-8431 v4.1 and SFF-8472 v10.4 specifications. Active direct attach
+cables are not supported.
+Supplier Type Part Numbers
-Identifying Your Adapter
-========================
+SR Modules
+Intel DUAL RATE 1G/10G SFP+ SR (bailed) FTLX8571D3BCV-IT
+Intel DUAL RATE 1G/10G SFP+ SR (bailed) AFBR-703SDDZ-IN1
+Intel DUAL RATE 1G/10G SFP+ SR (bailed) AFBR-703SDZ-IN2
+LR Modules
+Intel DUAL RATE 1G/10G SFP+ LR (bailed) FTLX1471D3BCV-IT
+Intel DUAL RATE 1G/10G SFP+ LR (bailed) AFCT-701SDDZ-IN1
+Intel DUAL RATE 1G/10G SFP+ LR (bailed) AFCT-701SDZ-IN2
-This driver supports devices based on the 82598 controller and the 82599
-controller.
+The following is a list of 3rd party SFP+ modules and direct attach cables that
+have received some testing. Not all modules are applicable to all devices.
-For specific information on identifying which adapter you have, please visit:
+Supplier Type Part Numbers
- http://support.intel.com/support/network/sb/CS-008441.htm
+Finisar SFP+ SR bailed, 10g single rate FTLX8571D3BCL
+Avago SFP+ SR bailed, 10g single rate AFBR-700SDZ
+Finisar SFP+ LR bailed, 10g single rate FTLX1471D3BCL
+Finisar DUAL RATE 1G/10G SFP+ SR (No Bail) FTLX8571D3QCV-IT
+Avago DUAL RATE 1G/10G SFP+ SR (No Bail) AFBR-703SDZ-IN1
+Finisar DUAL RATE 1G/10G SFP+ LR (No Bail) FTLX1471D3QCV-IT
+Avago DUAL RATE 1G/10G SFP+ LR (No Bail) AFCT-701SDZ-IN1
+Finistar 1000BASE-T SFP FCLF8522P2BTL
+Avago 1000BASE-T SFP ABCU-5710RZ
-Building and Installation
-=========================
+82599-based adapters support all passive and active limiting direct attach
+cables that comply with SFF-8431 v4.1 and SFF-8472 v10.4 specifications.
-select m for "Intel(R) 10GbE PCI Express adapters support" located at:
- Location:
- -> Device Drivers
- -> Network device support (NETDEVICES [=y])
- -> Ethernet (10000 Mbit) (NETDEV_10000 [=y])
+Laser turns off for SFP+ when ifconfig down
+-------------------------------------------
+"ifconfig down" turns off the laser for 82599-based SFP+ fiber adapters.
+"ifconfig up" turns on the later.
-1. make modules & make modules_install
-2. Load the module:
+82598-BASED ADAPTERS
-# modprobe ixgbe
+NOTES for 82598-Based Adapters:
+- Intel(R) Network Adapters that support removable optical modules only support
+ their original module type (i.e., the Intel(R) 10 Gigabit SR Dual Port
+ Express Module only supports SR optical modules). If you plug in a different
+ type of module, the driver will not load.
+- Hot Swapping/hot plugging optical modules is not supported.
+- Only single speed, 10 gigabit modules are supported.
+- LAN on Motherboard (LOMs) may support DA, SR, or LR modules. Other module
+ types are not supported. Please see your system documentation for details.
- The insmod command can be used if the full
- path to the driver module is specified. For example:
+The following is a list of 3rd party SFP+ modules and direct attach cables that
+have received some testing. Not all modules are applicable to all devices.
- insmod /lib/modules/<KERNEL VERSION>/kernel/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe.ko
+Supplier Type Part Numbers
- With 2.6 based kernels also make sure that older ixgbe drivers are
- removed from the kernel, before loading the new module:
+Finisar SFP+ SR bailed, 10g single rate FTLX8571D3BCL
+Avago SFP+ SR bailed, 10g single rate AFBR-700SDZ
+Finisar SFP+ LR bailed, 10g single rate FTLX1471D3BCL
- rmmod ixgbe; modprobe ixgbe
+82598-based adapters support all passive direct attach cables that comply
+with SFF-8431 v4.1 and SFF-8472 v10.4 specifications. Active direct attach
+cables are not supported.
-3. Assign an IP address to the interface by entering the following, where
- x is the interface number:
- ifconfig ethx <IP_address>
+Flow Control
+------------
+Ethernet Flow Control (IEEE 802.3x) can be configured with ethtool to enable
+receiving and transmitting pause frames for ixgbe. When TX is enabled, PAUSE
+frames are generated when the receive packet buffer crosses a predefined
+threshold. When rx is enabled, the transmit unit will halt for the time delay
+specified when a PAUSE frame is received.
-4. Verify that the interface works. Enter the following, where <IP_address>
- is the IP address for another machine on the same subnet as the interface
- that is being tested:
+Flow Control is enabled by default. If you want to disable a flow control
+capable link partner, use Ethtool:
- ping <IP_address>
+ ethtool -A eth? autoneg off RX off TX off
+NOTE: For 82598 backplane cards entering 1 gig mode, flow control default
+behavior is changed to off. Flow control in 1 gig mode on these devices can
+lead to Tx hangs.
Additional Configurations
=========================
- 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
other protocols besides TCP. It's also safe to use with configurations that
are problematic for LRO, namely bridging and iSCSI.
- GRO is enabled by default in the driver. Future versions of ethtool will
- support disabling and re-enabling GRO on the fly.
-
-
Data Center Bridging, aka DCB
-----------------------------
-
DCB is a configuration Quality of Service implementation in hardware.
It uses the VLAN priority tag (802.1p) to filter traffic. That means
that there are 8 different priorities that traffic can be filtered into.
http://e1000.sf.net
-
Ethtool
-------
The driver utilizes the ethtool interface for driver configuration and
- diagnostics, as well as displaying statistical information. Ethtool
- version 3.0 or later is required for this functionality.
+ diagnostics, as well as displaying statistical information. The latest
+ Ethtool version is required for this functionality.
The latest release of ethtool can be found from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel.
-
- NAPI
+ FCoE
----
+ This release of the ixgbe driver contains new code to enable users to use
+ Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and Data Center Bridging (DCB)
+ functionality that is supported by the 82598-based hardware. This code has
+ no default effect on the regular driver operation, and configuring DCB and
+ FCoE is outside the scope of this driver README. Refer to
+ http://www.open-fcoe.org/ for FCoE project information and contact
+ e1000-eedc@lists.sourceforge.net for DCB information.
+
+ MAC and VLAN anti-spoofing feature
+ ----------------------------------
+ When a malicious driver attempts to send a spoofed packet, it is dropped by
+ the hardware and not transmitted. An interrupt is sent to the PF driver
+ notifying it of the spoof attempt.
+
+ When a spoofed packet is detected the PF driver will send the following
+ message to the system log (displayed by the "dmesg" command):
+
+ Spoof event(s) detected on VF (n)
+
+ Where n=the VF that attempted to do the spoofing.
+
+
+Performance Tuning
+==================
+
+An excellent article on performance tuning can be found at:
+
+http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/2008/downloads/pdf/Thursday/Mark_Wagner.pdf
+
+
+Known Issues
+============
+
+ Enabling SR-IOV in a 32-bit Microsoft* Windows* Server 2008 Guest OS using
+ Intel (R) 82576-based GbE or Intel (R) 82599-based 10GbE controller under KVM
+ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ KVM Hypervisor/VMM supports direct assignment of a PCIe device to a VM. This
+ includes traditional PCIe devices, as well as SR-IOV-capable devices using
+ Intel 82576-based and 82599-based controllers.
+
+ While direct assignment of a PCIe device or an SR-IOV Virtual Function (VF)
+ to a Linux-based VM running 2.6.32 or later kernel works fine, there is a
+ known issue with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 VM that results in a "yellow
+ bang" error. This problem is within the KVM VMM itself, not the Intel driver,
+ or the SR-IOV logic of the VMM, but rather that KVM emulates an older CPU
+ model for the guests, and this older CPU model does not support MSI-X
+ interrupts, which is a requirement for Intel SR-IOV.
- NAPI (Rx polling mode) is supported in the ixgbe driver. NAPI is enabled
- by default in the driver.
+ If you wish to use the Intel 82576 or 82599-based controllers in SR-IOV mode
+ with KVM and a Microsoft Windows Server 2008 guest try the following
+ workaround. The workaround is to tell KVM to emulate a different model of CPU
+ when using qemu to create the KVM guest:
- See www.cyberus.ca/~hadi/usenix-paper.tgz for more information on NAPI.
+ "-cpu qemu64,model=13"
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