20. HINIC Poll Mode Driver
The hinic PMD (librte_pmd_hinic) provides poll mode driver support
for 25Gbps Huawei Intelligent PCIE Network Adapters based on the
Huawei Ethernet Controller Hi1822.
20.1. Features
- Multi arch support: x86_64, ARMv8.
- Multiple queues for TX and RX
- Receiver Side Scaling (RSS)
- MAC/VLAN filtering
- Checksum offload
- TSO offload
- Promiscuous mode
- Port hardware statistics
- Link state information
- Link flow control
- Scattered and gather for TX and RX
- SR-IOV - Partially supported at this point, VFIO only
- VLAN filter and VLAN offload
- Allmulticast mode
- MTU update
- Unicast MAC filter
- Multicast MAC filter
- Flow API
- Set Link down or up
- FW version
- LRO
20.3. Pre-Installation Configuration
20.3.1. Config File Options
The following options can be modified in the config file.
- CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_HINIC_PMD (default y)
20.5. Limitations or Known issues
Build with ICC is not supported yet.
X86-32, Power8, ARMv7 and BSD are not supported yet.