IPoIB: Document newish features
Update the documentation to include connected mode, stateless offloads and interrupt moderation, and add a reference to the connected mode RFC. Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@voltaire.com> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
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@ -24,6 +24,49 @@ Partitions and P_Keys
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The P_Key for any interface is given by the "pkey" file, and the
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main interface for a subinterface is in "parent."
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Datagram vs Connected modes
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The IPoIB driver supports two modes of operation: datagram and
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connected. The mode is set and read through an interface's
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/sys/class/net/<intf name>/mode file.
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In datagram mode, the IB UD (Unreliable Datagram) transport is used
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and so the interface MTU has is equal to the IB L2 MTU minus the
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IPoIB encapsulation header (4 bytes). For example, in a typical IB
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fabric with a 2K MTU, the IPoIB MTU will be 2048 - 4 = 2044 bytes.
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In connected mode, the IB RC (Reliable Connected) transport is used.
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Connected mode is to takes advantage of the connected nature of the
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IB transport and allows an MTU up to the maximal IP packet size of
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64K, which reduces the number of IP packets needed for handling
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large UDP datagrams, TCP segments, etc and increases the performance
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for large messages.
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In connected mode, the interface's UD QP is still used for multicast
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and communication with peers that don't support connected mode. In
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this case, RX emulation of ICMP PMTU packets is used to cause the
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networking stack to use the smaller UD MTU for these neighbours.
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Stateless offloads
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If the IB HW supports IPoIB stateless offloads, IPoIB advertises
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TCP/IP checksum and/or Large Send (LSO) offloading capability to the
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network stack.
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Large Receive (LRO) offloading is also implemented and may be turned
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on/off using ethtool calls. Currently LRO is supported only for
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checksum offload capable devices.
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Stateless offloads are supported only in datagram mode.
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Interrupt moderation
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If the underlying IB device supports CQ event moderation, one can
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use ethtool to set interrupt mitigation parameters and thus reduce
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the overhead incurred by handling interrupts. The main code path of
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IPoIB doesn't use events for TX completion signaling so only RX
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moderation is supported.
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Debugging Information
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By compiling the IPoIB driver with CONFIG_INFINIBAND_IPOIB_DEBUG set
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@ -55,3 +98,5 @@ References
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http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc4391.txt
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IP over InfiniBand (IPoIB) Architecture (RFC 4392)
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http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc4392.txt
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IP over InfiniBand: Connected Mode (RFC 4755)
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http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc4755.txt
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