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BNX(4) DragonFly Kernel Interfaces Manual BNX(4)
NAME
bnx -- Broadcom BCM57785/BCM5718 families 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet device
SYNOPSIS
device miibus
device bnx
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the
following line in /boot/loader.conf:
if_bnx_load="YES"
DESCRIPTION
The bnx driver supports the PCIe Ethernet adapters based on Broadcom
BCM57785/BCM5718 families chips.
The following features are supported in the bnx driver:
IP/TCP/UDP checksum offloading
TCP segmentation offloading (TSO)
VLAN tag stripping and inserting
Interrupt coalescing
Receive Side Scaling (RSS), up to 4 reception queues
Multiple vector MSI-X
Multiple transmission queues (BCM5717C, BCM5719 and BCM5720 only),
up to 4 transmission queues
By default, the bnx driver will try enabling as many reception queues as
are allowed by the number of CPUs in the system. For BCM5717C, BCM5719
and BCM5720, in addition to the reception queues, by default, the bnx
driver will try enabling as many transmission queues as are allowed by
the number of CPUs in the system and the number of enabled reception
queues. If multiple transmission queues are enabled, the round-robin
arbitration is performed among the transmission queues. It should be
noted that if both TSO and multiple transmission queues are enabled, the
round-robin arbitration between transmission queues is done at the TSO
packet boundary.
The bnx driver supports the following media types:
autoselect Enable autoselection of the media types and options
10baseT/UTP Set 10Mbps operation. The mediaopt option can also be used
to select either full-duplex or half-duplex modes.
100baseTX Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation. The mediaopt option
can also be used to select either full-duplex or half-duplex
modes.
1000baseT Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation. The mediaopt
option can only be set full-duplex mode.
The bnx driver supports the following media options:
full-duplex Force full duplex operation.
half-duplex Force half duplex operation.
Note that the 1000baseT media type is only available if it is supported
by the adapter. For more information on configuring this device, see
ifconfig(8). The bnx driver supports polling(4).
HARDWARE
The bnx driver supports Gigabit Ethernet adapters and Fast Ethernet
adapters based on the Broadcom BCM57785/BCM5718 families chips:
o Broadcom BCM5717 Gigabit Ethernet
o Broadcom BCM5717C Gigabit Ethernet
o Broadcom BCM5718 Gigabit Ethernet
o Broadcom BCM5719 Gigabit Ethernet
o Broadcom BCM5720 Gigabit Ethernet
o Broadcom BCM5725 Gigabit Ethernet
o Broadcom BCM5727 Gigabit Ethernet
o Broadcom BCM5762 Gigabit Ethernet
o Broadcom BCM57761 Gigabit Ethernet
o Broadcom BCM57762 Gigabit Ethernet
o Broadcom BCM57765 Gigabit Ethernet
o Broadcom BCM57766 Gigabit Ethernet
o Broadcom BCM57781 Gigabit Ethernet
o Broadcom BCM57782 Gigabit Ethernet
o Broadcom BCM57785 Gigabit Ethernet
o Broadcom BCM57786 Gigabit Ethernet
o Broadcom BCM57791 Fast Ethernet
o Broadcom BCM57795 Fast Ethernet
TUNABLES
X is the device unit number.
hw.bnx.rx_rings hw.bnxX.rx_rings
If MSI-X is used, this tunable specifies the number
of reception queues to be enabled. Maximum allowed
value for these tunables is 4 and it must be power
of 2 aligned. Setting these tunables to 0 allows
the driver to enable as many reception queues as
allowed by the number of CPUs.
hw.bnx.tx_rings hw.bnxX.tx_rings
For BCM5717C, BCM5719 and BCM5720, if MSI-X is
used, this tunable specifies the number of
transmission queues to be enabled. Maximum allowed
value for these tunables is 4, it must be power of
2 aligned and it must be less than or equal to the
number of reception queues enabled. Setting these
tunables to 0 allows the driver to enable as many
transmission queues as allowed by the number of
CPUs and number reception queues enabled.
hw.bnx.msix.enable hw.bnxX.msix.enable
By default, the driver will use MSI-X if it is
supported. This behaviour can be turned off by
setting this tunable to 0.
hw.bnx.msi.enable hw.bnxX.msi.enable
If MSI-X is disabled and MSI is supported, the
driver will use MSI. This behavior can be turned
off by setting this tunable to 0.
hw.bnxX.msi.cpu If MSI is used, it specifies the MSI's target CPU.
MIB Variables
A number of per-interface variables are implemented in the dev.bnx.X
branch of the sysctl(3) MIB.
rx_rings Number of reception queues enabled (read-only). Use
the tunable hw.bnx.rx_rings or hw.bnxX.rx_rings to
configure it.
tx_rings Number of transmission queues enabled (read-only). Use
the tunable hw.bnx.tx_rings or hw.bnxX.tx_rings to
configure it.
rx_coal_ticks How often status block should be updated and interrupt
should be generated by the device, due to receiving
packets. It is used together with rx_coal_bds to
achieve RX interrupt moderation. Default value is 150
(microseconds).
tx_coal_ticks How often status block should be updated and interrupt
should be generated by the device, due to sending
packets. It is used together with tx_coal_bds to
achieve TX interrupt moderation. Default value is 1023
(microseconds).
rx_coal_bds Maximum number of BDs which must be received by the
device before the device updates the status block and
generates interrupt. It is used together with
rx_coal_ticks to achieve RX interrupt moderation.
Default value is 0 (disabled).
rx_coal_bds_poll Maximum number of BDs which must be received by the
device before the device updates the status block
during polling(4). It is used together with
rx_coal_ticks to reduce the frequency of status block
updating due to RX. Default value is 32.
tx_coal_bds Maximum number of sending BDs which must be processed
by the device before the device updates the status
block and generates interrupt. It is used together
with tx_coal_ticks to achieve TX interrupt moderation.
Default value is 128.
tx_coal_bds_poll Maximum number of sending BDs which must be processed
by the device before the device updates the status
block during polling(4). It is used together with
tx_coal_ticks to reduce the frequency of status block
updating due to TX. Default value is 64.
force_defrag Force defragment the sending mbuf chains, if the mbuf
chain is not a TSO segment and contains more than 1
mbufs. This improves transmission performance on
certain low end chips, however, this also increases CPU
load. Default value is 0 (disabled).
tx_wreg The number of transmission descriptors should be setup
before the hardware register is written. Setting this
value too high will have negative effect on
transmission timeliness. Setting this value too low
will hurt overall transmission performance due to the
frequent hardware register writing. Default value is
8.
std_refill Number of packets should be received before the
standard reception producer ring is refilled. Setting
this value too low will cause extra thread scheduling
cost. Setting this value too high will make chip drop
incoming packets. Default value is 128 / number of
reception queues.
rx_coal_bds_int Maximum number of BDs which must be received by the
device before the device updates the status block
during host interrupt processing. Default value is 80.
tx_coal_bds_int Maximum number of sending BDs which must be processed
by the device before the device updates the status
block during host interrupt processing. Default value
is 64.
norxbds Number of times the standard reception producer ring is
short of reception BDs. If this value grows fast, it
is usually an indication that std_refill is set too
high.
errors Number of errors, both critical and non-critical,
happened.
SEE ALSO
arp(4), bge(4), ifmedia(4), miibus(4), netintro(4), ng_ether(4),
polling(4), vlan(4), ifconfig(8)
HISTORY
The bnx device driver first appeared in DragonFly 3.1.
AUTHORS
The bnx driver was based on bge(4) written by Bill Paul
<wpaul@windriver.com>. Sepherosa Ziehau added receive side scaling,
multiple transmission queues and multiple MSI-X support to DragonFly.
DragonFly 5.5 May 13, 2017 DragonFly 5.5