Introduction; Features - Chelsio Communications DPDK Installation And User Manual

Chapter 1. Introduction

1. Introduction

Thank you for choosing Chelsio Unified Wire adapters. These high speed, single chip, single
firmware cards provide enterprises and data centers with high performance solutions for various
Network and Storage related requirements.
The Terminator series is Chelsio's next generation of highly integrated, hyper-virtualized
1/10/25/40/50/100GbE controllers. The adapters are built around a programmable protocol-
processing engine, with full offload of a complete Unified Wire solution comprising NIC, TOE,
iWARP RDMA, iSCSI, FCoE and NAT support. It scales to true 100Gb line rate operation from a
single TCP connection to thousands of connections, and allows simultaneous low latency and
high bandwidth operation thanks to multiple physical channels through the ASIC.
Ideal for all data, storage and high performance clustering applications, the Unified Wire
adapters enable a unified fabric over a single wire by simultaneously running all unmodified IP
sockets, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand applications over Ethernet at line rate.
Designed for deployment in virtualized data centers, cloud service installations and high
performance computing environments, Chelsio adapters bring a new level of performance
metrics and functional capabilities to the computer networking industry.
This document describes the installation, use and maintenance of the DPDK driver and its
various components.
1.1.

Features

Chelsio Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) driver package is a collection of data plane
libraries and NIC drivers optimized for running in the Linux user space to boost packet
processing.
The driver has support for:
Multiple queues for Tx and Rx
Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
VLAN filtering
Checksum offload
Promiscuous mode
All multicast mode
Port hardware statistics
Jumbo frames (only for UIO)
Classification and Filtering (only for UIO)
Chelsio DPDK Driver for Linux
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