18/03/2024 22:26, Damodharam Ammepalli: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 7:56 AM Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> wrote: > > > > 12/03/2024 08:52, Dengdui Huang: > > > Some speeds can be achieved with different number of lanes. For example, > > > 100Gbps can be achieved using two lanes of 50Gbps or four lanes of 25Gbps. > > > When use different lanes, the port cannot be up. > > > > I'm not sure what you are referring to. > > I suppose it is not PCI lanes. > > Please could you link to an explanation of how a port is split in lanes? > > Which hardware does this? > > This is a snapshot of 100Gb that the latest BCM576xx supports. > 100Gb (NRZ: 25G per lane, 4 lanes) link speed > 100Gb (PAM4-56: 50G per lane, 2 lanes) link speed > 100Gb (PAM4-112: 100G per lane, 1 lane) link speed > > Let the user feed in lanes=< integer value> and the NIC driver decides > the matching combination speed x lanes that works. In future if a new speed > is implemented with more than 8 lanes, there wouldn't be a need > to touch this speed command. Using separate lane command would > be a better alternative to support already shipped products and only new > drivers would consider this lanes configuration, if applicable.
Sorry it does not provide enough explanations. What is a lane? How does it work? Is it only for Broadcom devices? Do you know other devices?
