Crate mlx5

A mlx5 driver for a ConnectX-5 100GbE Network Interface Card.

Currently the following steps are completed

• reading the device PCI space and mapping the initialization segment
• setting up a command queue to pass commands to the NIC
• setting up a single send and receive queue
• functions to send packets

All information is taken from the Mellanox Adapters Programmer’s Reference Manual (PRM) Rev 0.54, unless otherwise specified.

Structs

• ConnectX5Nic
  Struct representing a ConnectX-5 network interface card.

Constants

• CONNECTX5_DEV
  Device ID for the ConnectX-5 NIC
• CONNECTX5_EX_DEV
  Device ID for the ConnectX-5-EX NIC
• MLX_VEND
  Vendor ID for Mellanox

Functions

• get_mlx5_nic
  Returns a reference to the NIC wrapped in a IrqSafeMutex, if it exists and has been initialized.