doc: update building and running FreeBSD apps

Update the documentation on building and running apps on FreeBSD, taking
account of having used meson for building. We can also update the section
on the command-line parameters, rather than claiming to be a complete list
of parameters, it should describe how to get the complete list and only
cover a few important ones.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
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Bruce Richardson 2020-01-03 15:32:56 +00:00 committed by Thomas Monjalon
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@ -12,68 +12,37 @@ environment. It also provides a pointer to where sample applications are stored.
Compiling a Sample Application
------------------------------
Once a DPDK target environment directory has been created (such as
``x86_64-native-freebsd-clang``), it contains all libraries and header files required
to build an application.
When compiling an application in the FreeBSD environment on the DPDK,
the following variables must be exported:
* ``RTE_SDK`` - Points to the DPDK installation directory.
* ``RTE_TARGET`` - Points to the DPDK target environment directory.
For FreeBSD, this is the ``x86_64-native-freebsd-clang`` or
``x86_64-native-freebsd-gcc`` directory.
The following is an example of creating the ``helloworld`` application, which runs
in the DPDK FreeBSD environment. While the example demonstrates compiling
using gcc version 4.9, compiling with clang will be similar, except that the ``CC=``
parameter can probably be omitted. The ``helloworld`` example may be found in the
``${RTE_SDK}/examples`` directory.
The directory contains the ``main.c`` file. This file, when combined with the
libraries in the DPDK target environment, calls the various functions to
initialize the DPDK environment, then launches an entry point (dispatch
application) for each core to be utilized. By default, the binary is generated
in the build directory.
.. code-block:: console
setenv RTE_SDK /home/user/DPDK
cd $(RTE_SDK)
cd examples/helloworld/
setenv RTE_SDK $HOME/DPDK
setenv RTE_TARGET x86_64-native-freebsd-gcc
gmake CC=gcc49
CC main.o
LD helloworld
INSTALL-APP helloworld
INSTALL-MAP helloworld.map
ls build/app
helloworld helloworld.map
The DPDK example applications make use of the pkg-config file installed on
the system when DPDK is installed, and so can be built using GNU make.
.. note::
In the above example, ``helloworld`` was in the directory structure of the
DPDK. However, it could have been located outside the directory
structure to keep the DPDK structure intact. In the following case,
the ``helloworld`` application is copied to a new directory as a new starting
point.
BSD make cannot be used to compile the DPDK example applications. GNU
make can be installed using `pkg install gmake` if not already installed
on the FreeBSD system.
.. code-block:: console
The following shows how to compile the helloworld example app, following
the installation of DPDK using `ninja install` as described previously::
setenv RTE_SDK /home/user/DPDK
cp -r $(RTE_SDK)/examples/helloworld my_rte_app
cd my_rte_app/
setenv RTE_TARGET x86_64-native-freebsd-gcc
$ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
$ cd examples/helloworld/
$ gmake
cc -O3 -I/usr/local/include -include rte_config.h -march=native
-D__BSD_VISIBLE main.c -o build/helloworld-shared
-L/usr/local/lib -lrte_telemetry -lrte_bpf -lrte_flow_classify
-lrte_pipeline -lrte_table -lrte_port -lrte_fib -lrte_ipsec
-lrte_stack -lrte_security -lrte_sched -lrte_reorder -lrte_rib
-lrte_rcu -lrte_rawdev -lrte_pdump -lrte_member -lrte_lpm
-lrte_latencystats -lrte_jobstats -lrte_ip_frag -lrte_gso -lrte_gro
-lrte_eventdev -lrte_efd -lrte_distributor -lrte_cryptodev
-lrte_compressdev -lrte_cfgfile -lrte_bitratestats -lrte_bbdev
-lrte_acl -lrte_timer -lrte_hash -lrte_metrics -lrte_cmdline
-lrte_pci -lrte_ethdev -lrte_meter -lrte_net -lrte_mbuf
-lrte_mempool -lrte_ring -lrte_eal -lrte_kvargs
ln -sf helloworld-shared build/helloworld
gmake CC=gcc49
CC main.o
LD helloworld
INSTALL-APP helloworld
INSTALL-MAP helloworld.map
.. _running_sample_app:
@ -88,29 +57,15 @@ Running a Sample Application
Abstraction Layer (EAL) library, which provides some options that are generic
to every DPDK application.
The following is the list of options that can be given to the EAL:
.. code-block:: console
./rte-app -l CORELIST [-n NUM] [-b <domain:bus:devid.func>] \
[-r NUM] [-v] [--proc-type <primary|secondary|auto>]
.. note::
EAL has a common interface between all operating systems and is based on the
Linux notation for PCI devices. For example, a FreeBSD device selector of
``pci0:2:0:1`` is referred to as ``02:00.1`` in EAL.
The EAL options for FreeBSD are as follows:
A large number of options can be given to the EAL when running an
application. A full list of options can be got by passing `--help` to a
DPDK application. Some of the EAL options for FreeBSD are as follows:
* ``-c COREMASK`` or ``-l CORELIST``:
A hexadecimal bit mask of the cores to run on. Note that core numbering
can change between platforms and should be determined beforehand. The corelist
is a list of cores to use instead of a core mask.
* ``-n NUM``:
Number of memory channels per processor socket.
* ``-b <domain:bus:devid.func>``:
Blacklisting of ports; prevent EAL from using specified PCI device
(multiple ``-b`` options are allowed).
@ -119,15 +74,9 @@ The EAL options for FreeBSD are as follows:
Use the specified Ethernet device(s) only. Use comma-separate
``[domain:]bus:devid.func`` values. Cannot be used with ``-b`` option.
* ``-r NUM``:
Number of memory ranks.
* ``-v``:
Display version information on startup.
* ``--proc-type``:
The type of process instance.
* ``-m MB``:
Memory to allocate from hugepages, regardless of processor socket.
@ -147,19 +96,6 @@ Other options, specific to Linux and are not supported under FreeBSD are as foll
The ``-c`` or ``-l`` option is mandatory; the others are optional.
Copy the DPDK application binary to your target, then run the application
as follows (assuming the platform has four memory channels, and that cores 0-3
are present and are to be used for running the application)::
./helloworld -l 0-3 -n 4
.. note::
The ``--proc-type`` and ``--file-prefix`` EAL options are used for running multiple
DPDK processes. See the "Multi-process Sample Application" chapter
in the *DPDK Sample Applications User Guide and the DPDK
Programmers Guide* for more details.
.. _running_non_root:
Running DPDK Applications Without Root Privileges