The ipn3ke PMD (librte_pmd_ipn3ke) provides poll mode driver support for IntelĀ® FPGA PAC(Programmable Acceleration Card) N3000 based on the Intel Ethernet Controller X710/XXV710 and Intel Arria 10 FPGA.
In this card, FPGA is an acceleration bridge between network interface and the Intel Ethernet Controller. Although both FPGA and Ethernet Controllers are connected to CPU with PCIe Gen3x16 Switch, all the packet RX/TX is handled by Intel Ethernet Controller. So from application point of view the data path is still the legacy Intel Ethernet Controller X710/XXV710 PMD. Besides this, users can enable more acceleration features by FPGA IP.
The following options can be modified in the config file.
CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_IPN3KE_PMD (default y)
Toggle compilation of the librte_pmd_ipn3ke driver.
AFU name
AFU name identifies which AFU is used by IPN3KE. The AFU name format is “Port|BDF”, Each FPGA can be divided into four blocks at most. “Port” identifies which FPGA block the AFU bitstream belongs to, but currently only 0 IPN3KE support. “BDF” means FPGA PCIe BDF. For example:
--vdev 'ipn3ke_cfg0,afu=0|b3:00.0'
FPGA Acceleration list
For IPN3KE FPGA can provide different bitstream, different bitstream includes different Acceleration, so users need to identify which Acceleration is used. Current IPN3KE can support TM and Flow Acceleration, for example:
--vdev 'ipn3ke_cfg0,afu=0|b3:00.0,fpga_acc={tm|flow}'
I40e PF name list
Users need to bind FPGA LineSidePort to FVL PF. So I40e PF name list should be involved in startup command. For example:
--vdev 'ipn3ke_cfg0,afu=0|b3:00.0,fpga_acc={tm|flow},i40e_pf={0000:b1:00.0|0000:b1:00.1|0000:b1:00.2|0000:b1:00.3|0000:b5:00.0|0000:b5:00.1|0000:b5:00.2|0000:b5:00.3}'
Refer to the document compiling and testing a PMD for a NIC for details.
FPGA Pass-through bitstream is original FPGA Image.
To start testpmd, and add I40e PF to FPGA network port:
./app/testpmd -l 0-15 -n 4 --vdev 'ifpga_rawdev_cfg0,ifpga=b3:00.0,port=0' --vdev 'ipn3ke_cfg0,afu=0|b3:00.0,i40e_pf={0000:b1:00.0|0000:b1:00.1|0000:b1:00.2|0000:b1:00.3|0000:b5:00.0|0000:b5:00.1|0000:b5:00.2|0000:b5:00.3}' -- -i --no-numa --port-topology=loop
HQoS and flow acceleration bitstream is used to offloading HQoS and flow classifier.
To start testpmd, and add I40e PF to FPGA network port, enable FPGA HQoS and Flow Acceleration:
./app/testpmd -l 0-15 -n 4 --vdev 'ifpga_rawdev_cfg0,ifpga=b3:00.0,port=0' --vdev 'ipn3ke_cfg0,afu=0|b3:00.0,fpga_acc={tm|flow},i40e_pf={0000:b1:00.0|0000:b1:00.1|0000:b1:00.2|0000:b1:00.3|0000:b5:00.0|0000:b5:00.1|0000:b5:00.2|0000:b5:00.3}' -- -i --no-numa --forward-mode=macswap
Ipn3ke code released in 19.05 is for evaluation only.