Network Interface Controller Drivers¶
- 1. Overview of Networking Drivers
- 2. AVP Poll Mode Driver
- 3. BNX2X Poll Mode Driver
- 4. BNXT Poll Mode Driver
- 5. CXGBE Poll Mode Driver
- 6. Driver for VM Emulated Devices
- 7. ENA Poll Mode Driver
- 8. ENIC Poll Mode Driver
- 8.1. How to obtain ENIC PMD integrated DPDK
- 8.2. Configuration information
- 8.3. Flow director support
- 8.4. Limitations
- 8.5. How to build the suite?
- 8.6. Supported Cisco VIC adapters
- 8.7. Supported Operating Systems
- 8.8. Supported features
- 8.9. Known bugs and Unsupported features in this release
- 8.10. Prerequisites
- 8.11. Additional Reference
- 8.12. Contact Information
- 9. FM10K Poll Mode Driver
- 10. I40E Poll Mode Driver
- 10.1. Features
- 10.2. Prerequisites
- 10.3. Pre-Installation Configuration
- 10.4. Linux
- 10.5. Sample Application Notes
- 10.6. Limitations or Known issues
- 10.6.1. MPLS packet classification on X710/XL710
- 10.6.2. 16 Byte Descriptor cannot be used on DPDK VF
- 10.6.3. Link down with i40e kernel driver after DPDK application exit
- 10.6.4. Receive packets with Ethertype 0x88A8
- 10.6.5. Incorrect Rx statistics when packet is oversize
- 10.6.6. VF & TC max bandwidth setting
- 10.6.7. TC TX scheduling mode setting
- 11. IXGBE Driver
- 12. I40E/IXGBE/IGB Virtual Function Driver
- 13. KNI Poll Mode Driver
- 14. LiquidIO VF Poll Mode Driver
- 15. MLX4 poll mode driver library
- 16. MLX5 poll mode driver
- 17. NFP poll mode driver library
- 18. QEDE Poll Mode Driver
- 19. Solarflare libefx-based Poll Mode Driver
- 20. SZEDATA2 poll mode driver library
- 21. Tun/Tap Poll Mode Driver
- 22. ThunderX NICVF Poll Mode Driver
- 23. Poll Mode Driver for Emulated Virtio NIC
- 24. Poll Mode Driver that wraps vhost library
- 25. Poll Mode Driver for Paravirtual VMXNET3 NIC
- 26. Libpcap and Ring Based Poll Mode Drivers
Figures
Fig. 12.1 Virtualization for a Single Port NIC in SR-IOV Mode
Fig. 12.2 Performance Benchmark Setup
Fig. 12.3 Fast Host-based Packet Processing
Fig. 12.4 Inter-VM Communication
Fig. 23.13 Host2VM Communication Example Using kni vhost Back End
Fig. 23.15 Host2VM Communication Example Using qemu vhost Back End
Fig. 25.1 Assigning a VMXNET3 interface to a VM using VMware vSphere Client