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authorGlenn Elliott <gelliott@cs.unc.edu>2012-03-04 19:47:13 -0500
committerGlenn Elliott <gelliott@cs.unc.edu>2012-03-04 19:47:13 -0500
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Merge branch 'mpi-master' into wip-k-fmlpwip-k-fmlp
Conflicts: litmus/sched_cedf.c
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@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ Default Value: 0
36This parameter adds support for SR-IOV. It causes the driver to spawn up to 36This parameter adds support for SR-IOV. It causes the driver to spawn up to
37max_vfs worth of virtual function. 37max_vfs worth of virtual function.
38 38
39
39Additional Configurations 40Additional Configurations
40========================= 41=========================
41 42
@@ -60,15 +61,16 @@ Additional Configurations
60 Ethtool 61 Ethtool
61 ------- 62 -------
62 The driver utilizes the ethtool interface for driver configuration and 63 The driver utilizes the ethtool interface for driver configuration and
63 diagnostics, as well as displaying statistical information. 64 diagnostics, as well as displaying statistical information. The latest
65 version of ethtool can be found at:
64 66
65 http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel. 67 http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool/
66 68
67 Enabling Wake on LAN* (WoL) 69 Enabling Wake on LAN* (WoL)
68 --------------------------- 70 ---------------------------
69 WoL is configured through the Ethtool* utility. 71 WoL is configured through the ethtool* utility.
70 72
71 For instructions on enabling WoL with Ethtool, refer to the Ethtool man page. 73 For instructions on enabling WoL with ethtool, refer to the ethtool man page.
72 74
73 WoL will be enabled on the system during the next shut down or reboot. 75 WoL will be enabled on the system during the next shut down or reboot.
74 For this driver version, in order to enable WoL, the igb driver must be 76 For this driver version, in order to enable WoL, the igb driver must be
@@ -91,30 +93,18 @@ Additional Configurations
91 REQUIREMENTS: MSI-X support is required for Multiqueue. If MSI-X is not 93 REQUIREMENTS: MSI-X support is required for Multiqueue. If MSI-X is not
92 found, the system will fallback to MSI or to Legacy interrupts. 94 found, the system will fallback to MSI or to Legacy interrupts.
93 95
94 LRO 96 MAC and VLAN anti-spoofing feature
95 --- 97 ----------------------------------
96 Large Receive Offload (LRO) is a technique for increasing inbound throughput 98 When a malicious driver attempts to send a spoofed packet, it is dropped by
97 of high-bandwidth network connections by reducing CPU overhead. It works by 99 the hardware and not transmitted. An interrupt is sent to the PF driver
98 aggregating multiple incoming packets from a single stream into a larger 100 notifying it of the spoof attempt.
99 buffer before they are passed higher up the networking stack, thus reducing 101
100 the number of packets that have to be processed. LRO combines multiple 102 When a spoofed packet is detected the PF driver will send the following
101 Ethernet frames into a single receive in the stack, thereby potentially 103 message to the system log (displayed by the "dmesg" command):
102 decreasing CPU utilization for receives. 104
103 105 Spoof event(s) detected on VF(n)
104 NOTE: You need to have inet_lro enabled via either the CONFIG_INET_LRO or 106
105 CONFIG_INET_LRO_MODULE kernel config option. Additionally, if 107 Where n=the VF that attempted to do the spoofing.
106 CONFIG_INET_LRO_MODULE is used, the inet_lro module needs to be loaded
107 before the igb driver.
108
109 You can verify that the driver is using LRO by looking at these counters in
110 Ethtool:
111
112 lro_aggregated - count of total packets that were combined
113 lro_flushed - counts the number of packets flushed out of LRO
114 lro_no_desc - counts the number of times an LRO descriptor was not available
115 for the LRO packet
116
117 NOTE: IPv6 and UDP are not supported by LRO.
118 108
119Support 109Support
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