doc: add instructions to enable qat

Signed-off-by: Eoin Breen <eoin.breen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Deepak Kumar Jain <deepak.k.jain@intel.com>
Acked-by: Fiona Trahe <fiona.trahe@intel.com>
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Eoin Breen 2016-09-13 15:08:58 +01:00 committed by Pablo de Lara
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To use the DPDK QAT PMD an SRIOV-enabled QAT kernel driver is required. The To use the DPDK QAT PMD an SRIOV-enabled QAT kernel driver is required. The
VF devices exposed by this driver will be used by QAT PMD. VF devices exposed by this driver will be used by QAT PMD.
To enable QAT in DPDK, follow the instructions mentioned in
http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/linux_gsg/build_dpdk.html
Quick instructions as follows:
.. code-block:: console
make config T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc
sed -i 's,\(CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_QAT\)=n,\1=y,' build/.config
make
If you are running on kernel 4.4 or greater, see instructions for If you are running on kernel 4.4 or greater, see instructions for
`Installation using kernel.org driver`_ below. If you are on a kernel earlier `Installation using kernel.org driver`_ below. If you are on a kernel earlier
than 4.4, see `Installation using 01.org QAT driver`_. than 4.4, see `Installation using 01.org QAT driver`_.