svn commit: r47559 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Thu Oct 15 03:15:40 UTC 2015

Author: bjk
Date: Thu Oct 15 03:15:39 2015
New Revision: 47559
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47559

Log:
  Add LiquidIO report from Stanislaw Kardach

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml	Wed Oct 14 19:47:02 2015	(r47558)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml	Thu Oct 15 03:15:39 2015	(r47559)
@@ -280,4 +280,82 @@
     </body>
   </project>
 
+  <project cat='kern'>
+    <title>Cavium LiquidIO Smart NIC driver</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Stanislaw</given>
+	  <common>Kardach</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>kda at semihalf.com</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Zyta</given>
+	  <common>Racia</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>zr at semihalf.com</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="http://www.cavium.com/LiquidIO_Application_Acceleration_Adapters.html">LiquidIO
+	product page</url>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>This project aims to add support for the LiquidIO family
+	of high-performance programmable accellerator 10/40-gigabit
+	Ethernet network adapters.  The currently developed kernel driver
+	supports CN6640- and CN6880-based PCIe cards, enabling the
+	following features:</p>
+
+      <ul>
+	<li>A CNNIC API for controlling/interacting with the smart NIC
+	  from user and kernel space including:
+	  <ul>
+	    <li>Handling multiple concurrent applications running on the
+	      same device</li>
+	    <li>Request/reply mechanism for (a)synchronous
+	      ordered/unordered communication</li>
+	    <li>Remote memory operations</li>
+	    <li>Device shutdown/reset</li>
+	  </ul>
+	</li>
+	<li>A basic NIC module utilizing the CNNIC API and a
+	  Cavium-provided NIC firmware.  This module provides:
+	  <ul>
+	    <li>Single/multi-queue TX</li>
+	    <li>Hardware TCP/UDP checksum offloading</li>
+	    <li>Large Receive Offload</li>
+	    <li>Promiscous mode</li>
+	  </ul>
+	</li>
+	<li>Sysctl-based device statistics and configuration view</li>
+	<li>Custom firmware loading via user-built modules and
+	  &os;'s firmware(9) mechanism.</li>
+      </ul>
+
+      <p>The project is currently being developed in house and is
+	currently being prepared for upstream.  We plan on making it
+	available in &os; 11.</p>
+
+    </body>
+
+    <sponsor>
+      Cavium
+    </sponsor>
+
+    <sponsor>
+      Semihalf
+    </sponsor>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>Upstream the code to &os; HEAD.</task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
+
 </report>
