Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- 1 Regulatory and Safety Approvals
- 2 Functional Description
- 3 Network Link and Activity Indication
- 4 Features
- 4.1 Software and Hardware Features
- 4.2 Virtualization Features
- 4.3 VXLAN
- 4.4 NVGRE/GRE/IP-in-IP/Geneve
- 4.5 Stateless Offloads
- 4.6 Priority Flow Control
- 4.7 Virtualization Offload
- 4.8 SR-IOV
- 4.9 Network Partitioning (NPAR)
- 4.10 Security
- 4.11 RDMA over Converged Ethernet – RoCE
- 4.12 VMWare Enhanced Networking Stack (ENS)
- 4.13 Supported Combinations
- 4.14 Unsupported Combinations
- 5 Installing the Hardware
- 6 Software Packages and Installation
- 7 Updating the Firmware
- 8 Link Aggregation
- 9 System-Level Configuration
- 10 PXE Boot
- 11 SR-IOV – Configuration and Use Case Examples
- 12 NPAR – Configuration and Use Case Example
- 13 Tunneling Configuration Examples
- 14 RoCE – Configuration and Use Case Examples
- 15 DCBX – Data Center Bridging
- 16 DPDK – Configuration and Use Case Examples
- Revision History
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4.2 Virtualization Features
Table 17 lists the virtualization features of the NetXtreme-E.
MSI-X Interrupt vector per queue 1 per RSS queue, 1 per NetQueue, 1 per Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ).
IP Checksum Offload Support for transmit and receive side.
TCP Checksum Offload Support for transmit and receive side.
UDP Checksum Offload Support for transmit and receive side.
NDIS TCP Large Send Offload Support for LSOV1 and LSOV2.
NDIS Receive Segment Coalescing (RSC) Support for Windows environments.
TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO) Hardware acceleration support for Linux and VMware environments.
Large Receive Offload (LRO) Hardware acceleration support for Linux and VMware environments.
Generic Receive Offload (GRO) Hardware acceleration support for Linux and VMware environments.
Receive Side Scaling (RSS) Support for Windows, Linux, and VMware environments. Up to eight queues/port supported
for RSS.
Header-Payload Split Enables the software TCP/IP stack to receive TCP/IP packets with header and payload data
split into separate buffers. Supports Windows, Linux, and VMware environments.
Accelerated Receive Flow Steering (aRFS) Hardware acceleration support for Linux.
Jumbo Frames Supported.
NIC Partitioning (NPAR) Supports up to eight Physical Functions (PFs) per port, or up to 16 PFs per silicon. This
option is configurable in NVRAM.
RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) BCM9575XX and BCM9574XX support RoCE v1/v2 for Windows, Linux, and VMware.
Data Center Bridging (DCB) BCM9575XX and BCM9574XX support DCBX (IEEE and CEE specification), PFC, and
AVB.
NCSI (Network Controller Sideband
Interface)
Supported.
Wake on LAN (WOL) Supported.
PXE boot Supported.
UEFI boot Supported.
Pause Flow Control (IEEE 802.3x) Supported.
Priority Flow Control (IEEE 802.1Qbb) Supported.
Auto negotiation Supported.
IEEE 802.1q VLAN Supported.
Interrupt Aggregation Supported.
MAC/VLAN filters Supported.
PTP Supported.
Table 17: Virtualization Features
Feature Details
Linux KVM Multiqueue Supported.
VMware NetQueue Supported.
NDIS Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ) Supported.
Table 16: Host Interface Features (Continued)
Feature Details