Documentation: igb: Add a section about CBS
Add some pointers to the definition of the CBS algorithm, and some notes about the limits of its implementation in the i210 family of controllers. Signed-off-by: Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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@ -177,6 +177,25 @@ rate limit using the IProute2 tool. Download the latest version of the
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IProute2 tool from Sourceforge if your version does not have all the features
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you require.
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Credit Based Shaper (Qav Mode)
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When enabling the CBS qdisc in the hardware offload mode, traffic shaping using
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the CBS (described in the IEEE 802.1Q-2018 Section 8.6.8.2 and discussed in the
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Annex L) algorithm will run in the i210 controller, so it's more accurate and
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uses less CPU.
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When using offloaded CBS, and the traffic rate obeys the configured rate
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(doesn't go above it), CBS should have little to no effect in the latency.
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The offloaded version of the algorithm has some limits, caused by how the idle
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slope is expressed in the adapter's registers. It can only represent idle slopes
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in 16.38431 kbps units, which means that if a idle slope of 2576kbps is
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requested, the controller will be configured to use a idle slope of ~2589 kbps,
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because the driver rounds the value up. For more details, see the comments on
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:c:func:`igb_config_tx_modes()`.
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NOTE: This feature is exclusive to i210 models.
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