27. HINIC3 Poll Mode Driver

The hinic3 PMD (librte_net_hinic3) provides poll mode driver support for 25Gbps/100Gbps/200Gbps Huawei SPx series Network Adapters.

27.1. Features

• Multi arch support: x86_64, ARMv8.
• Multiple queues for TX and RX
• Receiver Side Scaling (RSS)
• Flow filtering
• Checksum offload
• VLAN/QinQ stripping and inserting
• TSO offload
• Promiscuous mode
• Port hardware statistics
• Jumbo frames
• Link state information
• Link flow control
• Scattered and gather for TX and RX
• Allmulticast mode
• MTU update
• Multicast MAC filter
• NUMA support
• Generic Flow API
• Set Link down or up
• VLAN filter and VLAN offload
• SR-IOV - Partially supported at this point, VFIO only
• FW version
• LRO

27.2. Prerequisites

• Follow the DPDK Getting Started Guide for Linux to setup the basic DPDK environment.

27.3. Driver compilation and testing

Refer to the document Compiling and testing a PMD for a NIC for details.

27.4. Limitations or Known issues

x86-32, Windows, and BSD are not supported yet.