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diff --git a/share/man/man4/if_ntb.4 b/share/man/man4/if_ntb.4 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2f363dc --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man4/if_ntb.4 @@ -0,0 +1,86 @@ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2016 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org> +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" +.Dd July 10, 2016 +.Dt IF_NTB 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm if_ntb +.Nd Virtual Ethernet interface for Non-Transparent Bridges +.Sh SYNOPSIS +To compile this driver into your kernel, +place the following lines in your kernel configuration file: +.Bd -ragged -offset indent +.Cd "device if_ntb" +.Ed +.Pp +Or, to load the driver as a module at boot, place the following line in +.Xr loader.conf 5 : +.Bd -literal -offset indent +if_ntb_load="YES" +.Ed +.Pp +The following tunables are settable from the +.Xr loader 8 : +.Bl -ohang +.It Va hw.if_ntb.num_queues +Number of transport queues to use per interface. +Default is 1. +.El +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver attaches on top of the +.Xr ntb_transport 4 +driver to utilize its resources to create virtual Ethernet interface between +the systems. +Interface capabilities depend on the underlying transport. +Typical MTU is about 64KB to reduce overhead. +By default one queue is used, but more may be configured. +The MAC address for interface is randomly generated. +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver does not implement any real hardware offload, but since PCIe link is +protected by CRC32, in some situations it may be possible to save some CPU +cycles by enabling fake checksum offload on both link sides via setting +.Cm rxcsum +and +.Cm txcsum +interface options. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr ntb_transport 4 +.Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit +The +.Nm +driver was developed by Intel and originally written by +.An Carl Delsey Aq Mt carl@FreeBSD.org . +Later improvements were done by +.An Conrad E. Meyer Aq Mt cem@FreeBSD.org +and +.An Alexander Motin Aq Mt mav@FreeBSD.org . |