NAME

sfxge — Solarflare Ethernet device driver

SYNOPSIS

/dev/sfxge

DESCRIPTION

The sfxge driver provides support for 10 and 40 Gbps Ethernet adapters based on the Solarflare SFC9000 family of controllers.

These devices generally support the standard Ethernet features, including autonegotiation, etc. They also support full size MTUs (1500 bytes), even when used with VLANs, and hardware based flow control.

The device driver supports the ieee802.3(5) properties, which can be configured with dladm(1M).

FILES

/dev/sfxge

Special character device.

SEE ALSO

dladm(1M), ifconfig(1M), pci(4), ieee802.3(5), dlpi(7P)

IEEE 802.3: Ethernet, IEEE Standards Association.

BUGS

The hardware has support for multiple hardware rings, providing for receive side scaling (RSS) and improved virtualization. This driver currently lacks support for exposing this functionality to the operating system.