Linux* Base Driver for the Intel(R) Ethernet 10 Gigabit PCI Express Family of
  Adapters
  =============================================================================

  Intel 10 Gigabit Linux driver.
  Copyright(c) 1999 - 2013 Intel Corporation.

  
  Contents
  ========

  - Identifying Your Adapter

  - Additional Configurations

  - Performance Tuning
  - Known Issues

  - Support

  Identifying Your Adapter
  ========================

  The driver in this release is compatible with 82598, 82599 and X540-based
  Intel Network Connections.

  For more information on how to identify your adapter, go to the Adapter &
  Driver ID Guide at:

      http://support.intel.com/support/network/sb/CS-012904.htm

  SFP+ Devices with Pluggable Optics
  ----------------------------------

  82599-BASED ADAPTERS

  NOTES: If your 82599-based Intel(R) Network Adapter came with Intel optics, or
  is an Intel(R) Ethernet Server Adapter X520-2, then it only supports Intel
  optics and/or the direct attach cables listed below.

  When 82599-based SFP+ devices are connected back to back, they should be set to

  the same Speed setting via ethtool. Results may vary if you mix speed settings.

  82598-based adapters support all passive direct attach cables that comply
  with SFF-8431 v4.1 and SFF-8472 v10.4 specifications. Active direct attach
  cables are not supported.

  Supplier    Type                                             Part Numbers

  SR Modules
  Intel       DUAL RATE 1G/10G SFP+ SR (bailed)                FTLX8571D3BCV-IT
  Intel       DUAL RATE 1G/10G SFP+ SR (bailed)                AFBR-703SDDZ-IN1
  Intel       DUAL RATE 1G/10G SFP+ SR (bailed)                AFBR-703SDZ-IN2
  LR Modules
  Intel       DUAL RATE 1G/10G SFP+ LR (bailed)                FTLX1471D3BCV-IT
  Intel       DUAL RATE 1G/10G SFP+ LR (bailed)                AFCT-701SDDZ-IN1
  Intel       DUAL RATE 1G/10G SFP+ LR (bailed)                AFCT-701SDZ-IN2

  The following is a list of 3rd party SFP+ modules and direct attach cables that
  have received some testing. Not all modules are applicable to all devices.

  Supplier   Type                                              Part Numbers

  Finisar    SFP+ SR bailed, 10g single rate                   FTLX8571D3BCL
  Avago      SFP+ SR bailed, 10g single rate                   AFBR-700SDZ
  Finisar    SFP+ LR bailed, 10g single rate                   FTLX1471D3BCL

  Finisar    DUAL RATE 1G/10G SFP+ SR (No Bail)                FTLX8571D3QCV-IT
  Avago      DUAL RATE 1G/10G SFP+ SR (No Bail)                AFBR-703SDZ-IN1
  Finisar    DUAL RATE 1G/10G SFP+ LR (No Bail)                FTLX1471D3QCV-IT
  Avago      DUAL RATE 1G/10G SFP+ LR (No Bail)                AFCT-701SDZ-IN1
  Finistar   1000BASE-T SFP                                    FCLF8522P2BTL
  Avago      1000BASE-T SFP                                    ABCU-5710RZ

  82599-based adapters support all passive and active limiting direct attach
  cables that comply with SFF-8431 v4.1 and SFF-8472 v10.4 specifications.

  Laser turns off for SFP+ when device is down

  -------------------------------------------

  "ip link set down" turns off the laser for 82599-based SFP+ fiber adapters.
  "ip link set up" turns on the laser.

  82598-BASED ADAPTERS

  NOTES for 82598-Based Adapters:
  - Intel(R) Network Adapters that support removable optical modules only support
    their original module type (i.e., the Intel(R) 10 Gigabit SR Dual Port
    Express Module only supports SR optical modules). If you plug in a different
    type of module, the driver will not load.
  - Hot Swapping/hot plugging optical modules is not supported.
  - Only single speed, 10 gigabit modules are supported.
  - LAN on Motherboard (LOMs) may support DA, SR, or LR modules. Other module
    types are not supported. Please see your system documentation for details.

  The following is a list of 3rd party SFP+ modules and direct attach cables that
  have received some testing. Not all modules are applicable to all devices.

  Supplier   Type                                              Part Numbers

  Finisar    SFP+ SR bailed, 10g single rate                   FTLX8571D3BCL
  Avago      SFP+ SR bailed, 10g single rate                   AFBR-700SDZ
  Finisar    SFP+ LR bailed, 10g single rate                   FTLX1471D3BCL

  82598-based adapters support all passive direct attach cables that comply
  with SFF-8431 v4.1 and SFF-8472 v10.4 specifications. Active direct attach
  cables are not supported.

  Flow Control
  ------------
  Ethernet Flow Control (IEEE 802.3x) can be configured with ethtool to enable
  receiving and transmitting pause frames for ixgbe. When TX is enabled, PAUSE
  frames are generated when the receive packet buffer crosses a predefined
  threshold.  When rx is enabled, the transmit unit will halt for the time delay
  specified when a PAUSE frame is received.

  Flow Control is enabled by default. If you want to disable a flow control

  capable link partner, use ethtool:

       ethtool -A eth? autoneg off RX off TX off

  NOTE: For 82598 backplane cards entering 1 gig mode, flow control default
  behavior is changed to off.  Flow control in 1 gig mode on these devices can
  lead to Tx hangs.

  Intel(R) Ethernet Flow Director
  -------------------------------
  Supports advanced filters that direct receive packets by their flows to
  different queues. Enables tight control on routing a flow in the platform.
  Matches flows and CPU cores for flow affinity. Supports multiple parameters
  for flexible flow classification and load balancing.
  
  Flow director is enabled only if the kernel is multiple TX queue capable.
  
  An included script (set_irq_affinity.sh) automates setting the IRQ to CPU
  affinity.
  
  You can verify that the driver is using Flow Director by looking at the counter
  in ethtool: fdir_miss and fdir_match.
  
  Other ethtool Commands:
  To enable Flow Director
  	ethtool -K ethX ntuple on
  To add a filter

  	Use -U switch. e.g., ethtool -U ethX flow-type tcp4 src-ip 10.0.128.23

          action 1
  To see the list of filters currently present:
  	ethtool -u ethX
  
  Perfect Filter: Perfect filter is an interface to load the filter table that
  funnels all flow into queue_0 unless an alternative queue is specified using
  "action". In that case, any flow that matches the filter criteria will be
  directed to the appropriate queue.
  
  If the queue is defined as -1, filter will drop matching packets.
  
  To account for filter matches and misses, there are two stats in ethtool:
  fdir_match and fdir_miss. In addition, rx_queue_N_packets shows the number of
  packets processed by the Nth queue.
  
  NOTE: Receive Packet Steering (RPS) and Receive Flow Steering (RFS) are not
  compatible with Flow Director. IF Flow Director is enabled, these will be
  disabled.
  
  The following three parameters impact Flow Director.
  
  FdirMode
  --------
  Valid Range: 0-2 (0=off, 1=ATR, 2=Perfect filter mode)
  Default Value: 1
  
    Flow Director filtering modes.
  
  FdirPballoc
  -----------
  Valid Range: 0-2 (0=64k, 1=128k, 2=256k)
  Default Value: 0
  
    Flow Director allocated packet buffer size.
  
  AtrSampleRate
  --------------
  Valid Range: 1-100
  Default Value: 20
  
    Software ATR Tx packet sample rate. For example, when set to 20, every 20th
    packet, looks to see if the packet will create a new flow.
  
  Node
  ----
  Valid Range:   0-n
  Default Value: 1 (off)
  
    0 - n: where n is the number of NUMA nodes (i.e. 0 - 3) currently online in
    your system
    1: turns this option off
  
    The Node parameter will allow you to pick which NUMA node you want to have
    the adapter allocate memory on.
  
  max_vfs
  -------
  Valid Range:   1-63
  Default Value: 0
  
    If the value is greater than 0 it will also force the VMDq parameter to be 1
    or more.
  
    This parameter adds support for SR-IOV.  It causes the driver to spawn up to
    max_vfs worth of virtual function.

  Additional Configurations
  =========================

    Jumbo Frames
    ------------
    The driver supports Jumbo Frames for all adapters. Jumbo Frames support is
    enabled by changing the MTU to a value larger than the default of 1500.

    The maximum value for the MTU is 16110.  Use the ip command to

    increase the MTU size.  For example:

          ip link set dev ethx mtu 9000

    The maximum MTU setting for Jumbo Frames is 9710.  This value coincides
    with the maximum Jumbo Frames size of 9728.

  
    Generic Receive Offload, aka GRO
    --------------------------------
    The driver supports the in-kernel software implementation of GRO.  GRO has
    shown that by coalescing Rx traffic into larger chunks of data, CPU
    utilization can be significantly reduced when under large Rx load.  GRO is an
    evolution of the previously-used LRO interface.  GRO is able to coalesce
    other protocols besides TCP.  It's also safe to use with configurations that
    are problematic for LRO, namely bridging and iSCSI.

    Data Center Bridging, aka DCB
    -----------------------------

    DCB is a configuration Quality of Service implementation in hardware.
    It uses the VLAN priority tag (802.1p) to filter traffic.  That means
    that there are 8 different priorities that traffic can be filtered into.
    It also enables priority flow control which can limit or eliminate the
    number of dropped packets during network stress.  Bandwidth can be
    allocated to each of these priorities, which is enforced at the hardware
    level.
  
    To enable DCB support in ixgbe, you must enable the DCB netlink layer to
    allow the userspace tools (see below) to communicate with the driver.
    This can be found in the kernel configuration here:
  
          -> Networking support
            -> Networking options
              -> Data Center Bridging support
  
    Once this is selected, DCB support must be selected for ixgbe.  This can
    be found here:
  
          -> Device Drivers
            -> Network device support (NETDEVICES [=y])
              -> Ethernet (10000 Mbit) (NETDEV_10000 [=y])
                -> Intel(R) 10GbE PCI Express adapters support
                  -> Data Center Bridging (DCB) Support
  
    After these options are selected, you must rebuild your kernel and your
    modules.
  
    In order to use DCB, userspace tools must be downloaded and installed.
    The dcbd tools can be found at:
  
          http://e1000.sf.net

    Ethtool
    -------
    The driver utilizes the ethtool interface for driver configuration and

    diagnostics, as well as displaying statistical information. The latest

    ethtool version is required for this functionality.

  
    The latest release of ethtool can be found from

    http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool/

    FCoE

    ----

    This release of the ixgbe driver contains new code to enable users to use
    Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and Data Center Bridging (DCB)
    functionality that is supported by the 82598-based hardware.  This code has
    no default effect on the regular driver operation, and configuring DCB and
    FCoE is outside the scope of this driver README. Refer to
    http://www.open-fcoe.org/ for FCoE project information and contact
    e1000-eedc@lists.sourceforge.net for DCB information.
  
    MAC and VLAN anti-spoofing feature
    ----------------------------------
    When a malicious driver attempts to send a spoofed packet, it is dropped by
    the hardware and not transmitted.  An interrupt is sent to the PF driver
    notifying it of the spoof attempt.
  
    When a spoofed packet is detected the PF driver will send the following
    message to the system log (displayed by  the "dmesg" command):
  
    Spoof event(s) detected on VF (n)
  
    Where n=the VF that attempted to do the spoofing.
  
  
  Performance Tuning
  ==================
  
  An excellent article on performance tuning can be found at:
  
  http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/2008/downloads/pdf/Thursday/Mark_Wagner.pdf
  
  
  Known Issues
  ============

    Enabling SR-IOV in a 32-bit or 64-bit Microsoft* Windows* Server 2008/R2
    Guest OS using Intel (R) 82576-based GbE or Intel (R) 82599-based 10GbE
    controller under KVM
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------

    KVM Hypervisor/VMM supports direct assignment of a PCIe device to a VM.  This
    includes traditional PCIe devices, as well as SR-IOV-capable devices using
    Intel 82576-based and 82599-based controllers.
  
    While direct assignment of a PCIe device or an SR-IOV Virtual Function (VF)
    to a Linux-based VM running 2.6.32 or later kernel works fine, there is a
    known issue with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 VM that results in a "yellow
    bang" error. This problem is within the KVM VMM itself, not the Intel driver,
    or the SR-IOV logic of the VMM, but rather that KVM emulates an older CPU
    model for the guests, and this older CPU model does not support MSI-X
    interrupts, which is a requirement for Intel SR-IOV.

    If you wish to use the Intel 82576 or 82599-based controllers in SR-IOV mode
    with KVM and a Microsoft Windows Server 2008 guest try the following
    workaround. The workaround is to tell KVM to emulate a different model of CPU
    when using qemu to create the KVM guest:

         "-cpu qemu64,model=13"

  
  
  Support
  =======
  
  For general information, go to the Intel support website at:
  
      http://support.intel.com
  
  or the Intel Wired Networking project hosted by Sourceforge at:
  
      http://e1000.sourceforge.net
  
  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 e1000-devel@lists.sf.net