+1. Which should be no real surprise since I was originally working on
this project. :-)
- Garrett
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 11:59 -0700, Phi Tran wrote:
> I'm sponsoring this case for Kerry Shu with a requested patch release binding.
>
> Phi
>
> Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.70 03/30/10 SMI
> This information is Copyright (c) 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All
> rights reserved.
> 1. Introduction
> 1.1. Project/Component Working Name:
> Mellanox ConnectX-2 10 Gigabit Ethernet Driver: mcxnex/mcxe
> 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier:
> Author: Kerry Shu
> 1.3 Date of This Document:
> 22 July, 2010
> 4. Technical Description
>
> 4.1. Details:
>
> This project is to integrate a new NIC driver for the 10GbE
> functionality of Mellanox ConnectX-2 controller(its IB functionality
> is already supported by hermon driver: PSARC/2008/497). This is
> required by releasing Vayu+(Sun Blade X6275 M2) 10GbE Module.
>
> Mellanox ConnectX-2 controller has two ports which can be independently
> configured as either Ethernet or IB port. We propose below driver
> stack:
>
> . Initial integration(phase-I) driver stack will look like this:
>
> [mcxe]
> ^
> |
> [mcxnex]
> ............................. Hardware Boundary
> ConnectX-2 chip
>
> . In the future, we'll have stack like this when IB support is added.
>
> [mcxe] [mcxib]
> ^ ^
> | |
> [mcxnex]
> ............................. Hardware Boundary
> ConnectX-2 chip
>
> 4.1.1 mcxnex: Mellanox ConnectX-2 nexus driver
> mcxnex souce code is mainly derived from current hermon driver. It
> provides common FMA support, fwflash support, low level objects(QP,
> CQ etc) handling and chip-related functions to mcxe(10GbE driver)
> and future mcxib(IB driver, which will replace existing hermon IB
> driver). Since there is just one PCI device ID per chip instead of
> per port, mcxnex is also responsible for creating the device node
> for each port so that we can present mcxe 10GbE driver instance per
> port in Solaris.
>
> 4.1.2 mcxe: Mellanox ConnectX-2 10GbE driver
> The mcxe driver is GLDv3-based. It provides:
> - basic GLDv3 driver features including frame transmit and receive,
> multicast and promiscuous, vlan, trunking, VNIC support etc;
> - 9K Jumbo support; TCP/UDP/IP checksum offloading; LSO support;
> - Brussels support;
> - Fast reboot support.
>
> 4.1.3 mcxib: Mellanox ConnectX-2 IB driver
> mcxib provides same IB functionality as existing hermon driver.
>
> 4.2. Bug/RFE Number(s):
>
> CR 6883788 P2 need 10Gb Ethernet support for Mellanox ConnectX-2
> chipset
>
>
> 4.5. Interfaces:
>
> 4.5.1 Exported Interfaces:
>
> Interface Level Comments
> ===================================================================
> mcxe Committed Driver name
>
> mcxnex Committed Nexus driver name
>
> driver/network/mcx Committed Package name
>
> mcxnex exported Consolidation Private mcxnex exported
> interface interface
>
>
> 4.5.2 Imported Interfaces:
>
> Interface Level Comments
> ===================================================================
> Public GLDv3 Interfaces Committed PSARC 2009/638
>
> Brussels Consolidation Private PSARC 2007/429
>
> Fast Reboot Committed PSARC/2008/382
>
>
> 6. Resources and Schedule
> 6.4. Steering Committee requested information
> 6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name:
> ON
> 6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack
> 6.6. ARC Exposure: open
>
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