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MXGE(4)			 BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual		       MXGE(4)

NAME
     mxge — Myricom Myri10GE 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter driver

SYNOPSIS
     To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your
     kernel configuration file:

	   device firmware
	   device mxge

     Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the
     following lines in loader.conf(5):

	   if_mxge_load="YES"
	   mxge_ethp_z8e_load="YES"
	   mxge_eth_z8e_load="YES"
	   mxge_rss_ethp_z8e_load="YES"
	   mxge_rss_eth_z8e_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION
     The mxge driver provides support for PCI Express 10 Gigabit Ethernet
     adapters based on the Myricom LANai Z8E chip.  The driver supports Trans‐
     mit/Receive checksum offload, Jumbo Frames, TCP segmentation offload
     (TSO) as well as Large Receive Offload (LRO).  For further hardware
     information, see http://www.myri.com/.

     For questions related to hardware requirements, refer to the documenta‐
     tion supplied with your Myri10GE adapter.	All hardware requirements
     listed apply to use with FreeBSD.

     Support for Jumbo Frames is provided via the interface MTU setting.
     Selecting an MTU larger than 1500 bytes with the ifconfig(8) utility con‐
     figures the adapter to receive and transmit Jumbo Frames.	The maximum
     MTU size for Jumbo Frames is 9000.

     For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8).

HARDWARE
     The mxge driver supports 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters based on the Myri‐
     com LANai Z8E chips:

     ·	 Myricom 10GBase-CX4 (10G-PCIE-8A-C, 10G-PCIE-8AL-C)
     ·	 Myricom 10GBase-R (10G-PCIE-8A-R, 10G-PCIE-8AL-R)
     ·	 Myricom 10G XAUI over ribbon fiber (10G-PCIE-8A-Q, 10G-PCIE-8AL-Q)

LOADER TUNABLES
     Tunables can be set at the loader(8) prompt before booting the kernel or
     stored in loader.conf(5).

     hw.mxge.flow_control_enabled
	     Whether or not hardware flow control is enabled on the adapter.
	     The default value is 1.

     hw.mxge.intr_coal_delay
	     This value delays the generation of all interrupts in units of 1
	     microsecond.  The default value is 30.

     hw.mxge.skip_pio_read
	     This value determines whether or not the driver may omit doing a
	     PIO read in the interrupt handler which ensures that the inter‐
	     rupt line has been deasserted when using xPIC interrupts.	A non-
	     zero value may result in lower CPU overhead, however it may also
	     result in spurious interrupts.  The default value is 0.  This
	     tunable has no effect when the device is using MSI or MSI-X
	     interrupts.

     hw.mxge.max_slices
	     This value determines the maximum number of slices the driver
	     will attempt to use.  The default value is 1.  A slice is com‐
	     prised of a set of receive queues and an associated interrupt
	     thread.  When using multiple slices, the NIC hashes traffic to
	     different slices based on the value of hw.mxge.rss_hashtype.
	     Using multiple slices requires that your motherboard and Myri10GE
	     NIC both be capable of MSI-X.  Older Myri10GE NICs can be field
	     upgraded to add MSI-X using the "10G NIC Tool Kit" for FreeBSD
	     which is available from
	     http://www.myri.com/scs/download-10g-tools.html.

     hw.mxge.rss_hashtype
	     This value determines how incoming traffic is steered to differ‐
	     ent slices.  This tunable is ignored when using just a single
	     slice.  The legal values for this tunable are:

	     1	   Hash on the source and destination IPv4 addresses.

	     2	   Hash on source and destination IPv4 addresses and if the
		   packet is TCP, then also hash on the TCP source and desti‐
		   nation ports.

	     4	   Hash on the TCP or UDP source ports.	 This is the default
		   value.

DIAGNOSTICS
     mxge%d: Unable to allocate bus resource: memory  A fatal initialization
     error has occurred.

     mxge%d: Unable to allocate bus resource: interrupt	 A fatal initializa‐
     tion error has occurred.

     mxge%d: Could not find firmware image %s  The appropriate firmware kld
     module was not installed.	This is a non-fatal initialization error, but
     will result in running in a reduced performance mode.

SUPPORT
     For general information and support, go to the Myricom support website
     at: http://www.myri.com/scs/.

     If an issue is identified with the released source code on the supported
     kernel with a supported adapter, email the specific information related
     to the issue to ⟨help@myri.com⟩.

SEE ALSO
     altq(4), arp(4), netintro(4), ng_ether(4), ifconfig(8)

HISTORY
     The mxge device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 6.3.

AUTHORS
     The mxge driver was written by Andrew Gallatin ⟨gallatin@FreeBSD.org⟩.

BSD			       February 13, 2008			   BSD
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