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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/meta/fbnic.rst b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/meta/fbnic.rst index 04e0595bb0a7..f8592dec8851 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/meta/fbnic.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/meta/fbnic.rst @@ -28,9 +28,60 @@ devlink dev info provides version information for all three components. In addition to the version the hg commit hash of the build is included as a separate entry. +Upgrading Firmware +------------------ + +fbnic supports updating firmware using signed PLDM images with devlink dev +flash. PLDM images are written into the flash. Flashing does not interrupt +the operation of the device. + +On host boot the latest UEFI driver is always used, no explicit activation +is required. Firmware activation is required to run new control firmware. cmrt +firmware can only be activated by power cycling the NIC. + Statistics ---------- +TX MAC Interface +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + + - ``ptp_illegal_req``: packets sent to the NIC with PTP request bit set but routed to BMC/FW + - ``ptp_good_ts``: packets successfully routed to MAC with PTP request bit set + - ``ptp_bad_ts``: packets destined for MAC with PTP request bit set but aborted because of some error (e.g., DMA read error) + +TX Extension (TEI) Interface (TTI) +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + + - ``tti_cm_drop``: control messages dropped at the TX Extension (TEI) Interface because of credit starvation + - ``tti_frame_drop``: packets dropped at the TX Extension (TEI) Interface because of credit starvation + - ``tti_tbi_drop``: packets dropped at the TX BMC Interface (TBI) because of credit starvation + +RXB (RX Buffer) Enqueue +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + + - ``rxb_integrity_err[i]``: frames enqueued with integrity errors (e.g., multi-bit ECC errors) on RXB input i + - ``rxb_mac_err[i]``: frames enqueued with MAC end-of-frame errors (e.g., bad FCS) on RXB input i + - ``rxb_parser_err[i]``: frames experienced RPC parser errors + - ``rxb_frm_err[i]``: frames experienced signaling errors (e.g., missing end-of-packet/start-of-packet) on RXB input i + - ``rxb_drbo[i]_frames``: frames received at RXB input i + - ``rxb_drbo[i]_bytes``: bytes received at RXB input i + +RXB (RX Buffer) FIFO +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + + - ``rxb_fifo[i]_drop``: transitions into the drop state on RXB pool i + - ``rxb_fifo[i]_dropped_frames``: frames dropped on RXB pool i + - ``rxb_fifo[i]_ecn``: transitions into the ECN mark state on RXB pool i + - ``rxb_fifo[i]_level``: current occupancy of RXB pool i + +RXB (RX Buffer) Dequeue +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + + - ``rxb_intf[i]_frames``: frames sent to the output i + - ``rxb_intf[i]_bytes``: bytes sent to the output i + - ``rxb_pbuf[i]_frames``: frames sent to output i from the perspective of internal packet buffer + - ``rxb_pbuf[i]_bytes``: bytes sent to output i from the perspective of internal packet buffer + RPC (Rx parser) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -44,6 +95,15 @@ RPC (Rx parser) - ``rpc_out_of_hdr_err``: frames where header was larger than parsable region - ``ovr_size_err``: oversized frames +Hardware Queues +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +1. RX DMA Engine: + + - ``rde_[i]_pkt_err``: packets with MAC EOP, RPC parser, RXB truncation, or RDE frame truncation errors. These error are flagged in the packet metadata because of cut-through support but the actual drop happens once PCIE/RDE is reached. + - ``rde_[i]_pkt_cq_drop``: packets dropped because RCQ is full + - ``rde_[i]_pkt_bdq_drop``: packets dropped because HPQ or PPQ ran out of host buffer + PCIe ~~~~ |