Till vmxnet3 version 6, om field of transmit descriptor was used
to indicate encapsulated offload packet and msscof was used to
indirectly indicate TSO/CSO. From version 7 and later, ext1 field
will be used to indicate whether packet is encapsulated or not and
om fields will continue to indicate if the packet is TSO or CSO.
Signed-off-by: Ronak Doshi <doshir@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Guolin Yang <gyang@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Currently, vmxnet3 does not have a limit on number of descriptors
used for a TSO packet. However, with UPT, for hardware performance
reasons, this patch limits the number of transmit descriptors to 24
for a TSO packet.
Signed-off-by: Ronak Doshi <doshir@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Guolin Yang <gyang@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
This patch adds a new command to set ring buffer sizes. This is
required to pass the buffer size information to passthrough devices.
For performance reasons, with version7 and later, ring1 will contain
only mtu size buffers (bound to 3K). Packets > 3K will use both ring1
and ring2.
Also, ring sizes are round down to power of 2 and ring2 default
size is increased to 512.
Signed-off-by: Ronak Doshi <doshir@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Guolin Yang <gyang@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
For vmxnet3 to work in UPT mode, the BAR sizes have been increased.
The PT page has been extended to 2 pages and also includes OOB pages
as a part of PT BAR. This patch enhances vmxnet3 to use appropriate
BAR offsets based on the capability registered. To use new offsets,
VMXNET3_CAP_LARGE_BAR needs to be set by the device. If it is not set
then the device will use legacy PT page layout.
Signed-off-by: Ronak Doshi <doshir@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Guolin Yang <gyang@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
This patch enhances vmxnet3 to suuport capability registers which
allows it to enable features selectively. The DCR register tracks
the capabilities vmxnet3 device supports. The PTCR register states
the capabilities that the passthrough device supports.
With the help of these registers, vmxnet3 can enable only those
features which the passthrough device supoprts. This allows
smooth trasition to Uniform-Passthrough (UPT) mode if the virtual
nic requests it. If PTCR register returns nothing or error it means
UPT is not being requested and vnic will continue in emulation mode.
Signed-off-by: Ronak Doshi <doshir@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Guolin Yang <gyang@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
vmxnet3 is currently at version 6 and this patch initiates the
preparation to accommodate changes for upto version 7. Introduced
utility macros for vmxnet3 version 7 comparison and update Copyright
information.
Signed-off-by: Ronak Doshi <doshir@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Guolin Yang <gyang@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
This patch increases the maximum configurable mtu to 9190
to accommodate jumbo packets of overlay traffic.
Signed-off-by: Ronak Doshi <doshir@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Guolin Yang <gyang@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
As vmxnet3 supports IP/TCP/UDP RSS, this patch sets appropriate
hash type based on the type of RSS performed.
Signed-off-by: Ronak Doshi <doshir@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Guolin Yang <gyang@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Currently, vmxnet3 supports maximum of 8 Tx/Rx queues. With increase
in number of vcpus on a VM, to achieve better performance and utilize
idle vcpus, we need to increase the max number of queues supported.
This patch enhances vmxnet3 to support maximum of 32 Tx/Rx queues.
Increasing the Rx queues also increases the probability of distrubuting
the traffic from different flows to different queues with RSS.
Signed-off-by: Ronak Doshi <doshir@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Guolin Yang <gyang@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
vmxnet3 is currently at version 4 and this patch initiates the
preparation to accommodate changes for upto version 6. Introduced
utility macros for vmxnet3 version 6 comparison and update Copyright
information.
Signed-off-by: Ronak Doshi <doshir@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Guolin Yang <gyang@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Vmxnet3 version 3 device supports checksum/TSO offload. Thus, vNIC to
pNIC traffic can leverage hardware checksum/TSO offloads. However,
vmxnet3 does not support checksum/TSO offload for Geneve/VXLAN
encapsulated packets. Thus, for a vNIC configured with an overlay, the
guest stack must first segment the inner packet, compute the inner
checksum for each segment and encapsulate each segment before
transmitting the packet via the vNIC. This results in significant
performance penalty.
This patch will enhance vmxnet3 to support Geneve/VXLAN TSO as well as
checksum offload.
Signed-off-by: Ronak Doshi <doshir@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
With vmxnet3 version 4, the emulation supports multiqueue(RSS) for
UDP and ESP traffic. A guest can enable/disable RSS for UDP/ESP over
IPv4/IPv6 by issuing commands introduced in this patch. ESP ipv6 is
not yet supported in this patch.
This patch implements get_rss_hash_opts and set_rss_hash_opts
methods to allow querying and configuring different Rx flow hash
configurations.
Signed-off-by: Ronak Doshi <doshir@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
vmxnet3 is currently at version 3 and this patch initiates the
preparation to accommodate changes for version 4. Introduced utility
macros for vmxnet3 version 4 comparison and update Copyright
information.
Signed-off-by: Ronak Doshi <doshir@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In vmxnet3 version 3, the emulation added support for the vmxnet3 driver
to communicate information about the memory regions the driver will use
for rx/tx buffers. The driver can also indicate which rx/tx queue the
memory region is applicable for. If this information is communicated
to the emulation, the emulation will always keep these memory regions
mapped, thereby avoiding the mapping/unmapping overhead for every packet.
Currently, Linux vmxnet3 driver does not leverage this capability. The
feasibility of using this approach for the Linux vmxnet3 driver will be
investigated independently and if possible, will be part of a different
patch. This patch only exposes the emulation capability to the driver
(vmxnet3_defs.h is identical between the driver and the emulation).
Signed-off-by: Guolin Yang <gyang@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Shrikrishna Khare <skhare@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The emulation supports a variety of coalescing modes viz. disabled
(no coalescing), adaptive, static (number of packets to batch before
raising an interrupt), rate based (number of interrupts per second).
This patch implements get_coalesce and set_coalesce methods to allow
querying and configuring different coalescing modes.
Signed-off-by: Keyong Sun <sunk@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Manoj Tammali <tammalim@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Shrikrishna Khare <skhare@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
vmxnet3 driver preallocates buffers for receiving packets and posts the
buffers to the emulation. In order to deliver a received packet to the
guest, the emulation must map buffer(s) and copy the packet into it.
To avoid this memory mapping overhead, this patch introduces the receive
data ring - a set of small sized buffers that are always mapped by
the emulation. If a packet fits into the receive data ring buffer, the
emulation delivers the packet via the receive data ring (which must be
copied by the guest driver), or else the usual receive path is used.
Receive Data Ring buffer length is configurable via ethtool -G ethX rx-mini
Signed-off-by: Shrikrishna Khare <skhare@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
vmxnet3 driver supports transmit data ring viz. a set of fixed size
buffers used by the driver to copy packet headers. Small packets that
fit these buffers are copied into these buffers entirely.
Currently this buffer size of fixed at 128 bytes. This patch extends
transmit data ring implementation to allow variable length transmit
data ring buffers. The length of the buffer is read from the emulation
during initialization.
Signed-off-by: Sriram Rangarajan <rangarajans@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Shrikrishna Khare <skhare@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Shared memory is used to exchange information between the vmxnet3 driver
and the emulation. In order to request emulation to perform a task, the
driver first populates specific fields in this shared memory and then
issues corresponding command by writing to the command register(CMD). The
layout of the shared memory was defined by vmxnet3 version 1 and cannot
be extended for every new command without breaking backward compatibility.
To address this problem, in vmxnet3 version 3, the emulation repurposed
a reserved field in the shared memory to represent command information
instead. For new commands, the driver first populates the command
information field in the shared memory and then issues the command. The
emulation interprets the data written to the command information depending
on the type of the command. This patch exposes this capability to the driver.
Signed-off-by: Guolin Yang <gyang@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Shrikrishna Khare <skhare@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
vmxnet3 is currently at version 2, but some command definitions from
previous vmxnet3 versions are missing. Add those definitions before
moving to version 3.
Also, introduce utility macros for vmxnet3 version comparison and update
Copyright information and Maintained by.
Signed-off-by: Shrikrishna Khare <skhare@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Device emulation supports max size of 4096.
Signed-off-by: Shrikrishna Khare <skhare@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Bhavesh Davda <bhavesh@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Make the driver understand adapter version 2.
Cc: Rachel Lunnon <rachel_lunnon@stormagic.com>
Signed-off-by: Guolin Yang <gyang@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Shreyas N Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The hex constant chosen for VMXNET3_REV1_MAGIC is offensive,
replace it with its decimal equivalent.
Signed-off-by: Shrikrishna Khare <skhare@vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Rx ring 2 size can be configured by adjusting rx-jumbo parameter
of ethtool -G.
Signed-off-by: Ramya Bolla <bollar@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Shrikrishna Khare <skhare@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
It's easier to just annotate the constants as little endian types and set/clear
the flags directly.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
A new bit map 'intrCtrl' is introduced in the DriverShared area. The
driver should update VMXNET3_IC_DISABLE_ALL bit before writing IMR.
Signed-off-by: Ronghua Zang <ronghua@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch removes config dependency on x86 to build vmxnet3 driver. Thus
the driver can be built on big endian architectures now. Although vmxnet3
is not supported on VMs other than x86 architecture, all this code goes in
to ensure correctness. If the code is not dependent on x86, it should not
assume little endian architecture in any of its operations.
Signed-off-by: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Ethernet NIC driver for VMware's vmxnet3
From: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>
This patch adds driver support for VMware's virtual Ethernet NIC: vmxnet3
Guests running on VMware hypervisors supporting vmxnet3 device will thus have
access to improved network functionalities and performance.
Signed-off-by: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Bhavesh Davda <bhavesh@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Ronghua Zhang <ronghua@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
