Software Information
SharpSwitch™ PCIE-9205 Installation and Use (6806800U18D)
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The PCIE-9205 card uses 15 ports of the fm10k switch.
Four PCIe endpoints (PEP0 .. PEP3) towards the MaxCore baseboard via the PCIe edge
connector.
Two PCIe endpoints (PEP4 and PEP8) towards the local Xeon-D CPU.
Two QSFP interfaces with one or four network ports each (depending on whether an
interface is configured to independent or grouped mode).
One 1000-BaseX cross connection between slot 1 and slot 15 via the MaxCore baseboard.
Each PEP is seen as an Ethernet device (NIC) from the CPU from which it is being accessed. The
vendor/device ID of these devices is 0x8086/0x15a4, the subsystem vendor/sysbsystem ID is
0x1223/0x2020.
When booting PCIE-9205, the following two fm10k network instances are visible:
The PCIe Gen3 x 8 connection of PEP4 with a maximum bandwidth of 64GBit/sec. It can be
used as regular network interface.
The PCIe Gen2 x 1 connection of PEP8. It is used by the switch management software (IES)
to operate the switch itself and cannot be used for network traffic.
6.2.2.1
Identifying Resources
In the MaxCore environment, PEP0 to PEP3 are visible as NICs from the active management
CPU (mCPU). The naming of the network interfaces depends on various circumstances. To
identify to which slot/PEP a specific fm10k instance seen by the mCPU corresponds to it is
possible to use the information provided by
lspci
and
mccs_tool.py
.
The following table provides a list of mCPU commands useful for identifying PCIE-9205
resources within the chassis.
Table 6-1 mCPU Commands
Command Name
Usage
mccs_tool.py
To list PCIe endpoints found in MaxCore slot 11. Here, four fm10k
physical endpoints are found.
lspci
To identify the PEP number of a fm10k PF. This information is encoded in
the VP field of the PCIe Vital Product Data.
dpdk-devbind.py
To check which driver instance is bound to a specific PCIe endpoint.
Summary of Contents for SharpSwitch PCIE-9205
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