Onload User Guide SF 104474 CD 22

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Table of Contents
1 What’s New
- 1.1 New features in OpenOnload 201601-u1
- 1.2 New features in OpenOnload 201606
- 1.3 Change history
2 Low Latency Quickstart Guide
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Software Installation
- 2.3 Test Setup
  - Pre-Test Configuration
  - Reference System Specification
- 2.4 Latency
- 2.5 Testing Without Onload
- 2.6 Further Information
3 Background
- 3.1 Introduction
4 Installation
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Onload Distributions
  - Onload Licenses
- 4.3 Hardware and Software Supported Platforms
- 4.4 Onload and the Network Adapter Driver
- 4.5 Removing Previously Installed Drivers
- 4.6 Migrating Between Onload Versions - Upgrade/Downgrade
  - Remove RPM
- 4.7 EnterpriseOnload - Build and Install from SRPM
- 4.8 EnterpriseOnload - Debian Source Packages
- 4.9 OpenOnload DKMS Installation
- 4.10 Build OpenOnload Source RPM
- 4.11 OpenOnload - Installation
- 4.12 Onload Kernel Modules
- 4.13 Configuring the Network Interfaces
- 4.14 Installing Netperf
- 4.15 How to run Onload
- 4.16 Testing the Onload Installation
- 4.17 Apply an Onload Patch
5 Tuning Onload
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 System Tuning
- 5.3 Standard Tuning
- 5.4 Onload Deployment on NUMA Systems
- 5.5 Interrupt Handling - Kernel Driver
- 5.6 Performance Jitter
  - Using Onload Tuning Profiles
  - Benchmark Testing
- 5.7 Advanced Tuning
  - Monitoring Using onload_stackdump
  - Worked Examples
6 Onload Functionality
- 6.1 Onload Transparency
- 6.2 Onload Stacks
- 6.3 Virtual Network Interface (VNIC)
- 6.4 Functional Overview
- 6.5 Onload with Mixed Network Adapters
- 6.6 Maximum Number of Network Interfaces
- 6.7 Whitelist and Blacklist Interfaces
- 6.8 Onloaded PIDs
- 6.9 Onload and File Descriptors, Stacks and Sockets
- 6.10 System calls intercepted by Onload
- 6.11 Linux Sysctls
- 6.12 Changing Onload Control Plane Table Sizes
- 6.13 SO_BINDTODEVICE
- 6.14 Multiplexed I/O
  - Poll, ppoll
  - Select, pselect
  - Epoll
- 6.15 Wire Order Delivery
  - Wire Order Delivery - Example API:
- 6.16 Stack Sharing
- 6.17 Application Clustering
- 6.18 Bonding, Link aggregation and Failover
- 6.19 Teaming
- 6.20 VLANS
- 6.21 Accelerated pipe()
- 6.22 Zero-Copy API
- 6.23 Debug and Logging
7 TimeStamps
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Software Timestamps
- 7.3 Hardware Timestamps
- 7.4 Timestamping - Example Applications
8 Onload - TCP
- 8.1 TCP Operation
- 8.2 TCP Handshake - SYN, SYNACK
- 8.3 TCP SYN Cookies
- 8.4 TCP Socket Options
- 8.5 TCP Level Options
- 8.6 TCP File Descriptor Control
- 8.7 TCP Congestion Control
- 8.8 TCP SACK
- 8.9 TCP QUICKACK
- 8.10 TCP Delayed ACK
- 8.11 TCP Dynamic ACK
- 8.12 TCP Loopback Acceleration
- 8.13 TCP Striping
- 8.14 TCP Connection Reset on RTO
- 8.15 ONLOAD_MSG_WARM
- 8.16 Listen/Accept Sockets
- 8.17 Socket Caching
  - TCP Passive Socket Caching
  - TCP Active Socket Caching
  - Caching Stackdump
  - Caching - Requirements
- 8.18 Scalable Filters
  - Scalable Filters - Restrictions
  - Scalable Filters - Configuration
  - Partition the NIC
  - Scalable Filters and Bonding
- 8.19 Transparent Reverse Proxy Modes
  - Restrictions
  - Config (example) Settings
- 8.20 Transparent Reverse Proxy on Multiple CPUs
9 Onload - UDP
- 9.1 UDP Operation
- 9.2 Socket Options
- 9.3 Source Specific Socket Options
- 9.4 Onload Sockets vs. Kernel Sockets
- 9.5 UDP Sockets - Send and Receive Paths
- 9.6 Fragmented UDP
- 9.7 User Level recvmmsg for UDP
- 9.8 User-Level sendmmsg for UDP
- 9.9 UDP sendfile
- 9.10 Multicast Replication
- 9.11 Multicast Operation and Stack Sharing
- 9.12 Multicast Loopback
- 9.13 Hardware Multicast Loopback
- 9.14 IP_MULTICAST_ALL
10 Packet Buffers
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Network Adapter Buffer Table Mode
- 10.3 Large Buffer Table Support
- 10.4 Scalable Packet Buffer Mode
- 10.5 Allocating Huge Pages
- 10.6 How Packet Buffers Are Used by Onload
- 10.7 Configuring Scalable Packet Buffers
  - Procedure:
- 10.8 Physical Addressing Mode
- 10.9 Programmed I/O
11 Onload and Virtualization
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Overview
- 11.3 Onload and Linux KVM
- 11.4 Onload and NIC Partitioning
- 11.5 Onload in a Docker Container
- 11.6 Pre-Installation
- 11.7 Installation
- 11.8 Create Onload Docker Image
- 11.9 Migration
  - Onload Docker Images
- 11.10 Copying Files Between Host and Container
12 Limitations
- 12.1 Introduction
  - Resources
- 12.2 Changes to Behavior
- 12.3 Limits to Acceleration
- 12.4 epoll - Known Issues
  - Spinning - Timing Issues
- 12.5 Configuration Issues
13 Change History
- 13.1 Mapping EnterpriseOnload/OpenOnload
- 13.2 Onload - Adapter Net Drivers
- 13.3 Features
- 13.4 Environment Variables
- 13.5 Module Options
- 13.6 Onload - Adapter Net Drivers
A Parameter Reference
- A.1 Parameter List
B Meta Options
- B.1 Environment variables
  - EF_POLL_USEC
  - EF_BUZZ_USEC
C Build Dependencies
- C.1 General
D Onload Extensions API
- D.1 Source Code
- D.2 Java Native Interface - Wrapper
- D.3 Common Components
- D.4 Stacks API
- D.5 Stacks API Usage
  - onload_stack_opt_set_int
  - onload_stack_opt_reset
- D.6 Stacks API - Examples
  - onload_ordered_epoll_wait
- D.7 Zero-Copy API
- D.8 Templated Sends
- D.9 Delegated Sends API
E onload_stackdump
- E.1 Introduction
- E.2 General Use
F Solarflare sfnettest
- F.1 Introduction
G onload_tcpdump
- G.1 Introduction
- G.2 Building onload_tcpdump
- G.3 Using onload_tcpdump
H ef_vi
- H.1 Components
- H.2 Compiling and Linking
- H.3 Documentation
I onload_iptables
- I.1 Description
- I.2 How it works
  - Files
- I.3 Features
  - To get help
- I.4 Rules
- I.5 Preview firewall rules
- I.6 Error Messages
J Solarflare eflatency Test Application
- J.1 eflatency
  - To run eflatency

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