Removed the hardcoded preconfigured Rx VLAN offload configuration
from testpmd and changed the Rx offload command line parameters from
disable to enable.
It has been decided by the Technical Board that testers who wish to
use these offloads will now have to explicitly write them in the
command-line when running testpmd.
The agreement is to keep two exceptions enabled by default in 18.02:
Rx CRC strip and Tx fast free.
Motivation:
Some PMDs such at the mlx4 may not implement all the offloads.
After the offload API rework assuming no offload is enabled by default,
commit ce17eddefc ("ethdev: introduce Rx queue offloads API")
commit cba7f53b71 ("ethdev: introduce Tx queue offloads API") trying
to enable a not supported offload is clearly an error which will cause
configuration failing.
Considering that testpmd is an application to test the PMD, it should
not fail on a configuration which was not explicitly requested.
The behavior of this test application is then turned to an opt-in
model.
Signed-off-by: Moti Haimovsky <motih@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
As the rte_flow is a new complex module in the DPDK.
In order to ease developers in to using this feature
it was suggested to supply a simple howto doc.
Signed-off-by: Ori Kam <orika@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Add How-To doc to describe the use of the pdump library
and the dpdk-pdump tool to capture traffic on DPDK
ports.
Signed-off-by: Reshma Pattan <reshma.pattan@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
This patch adds missing backslash in host's testpmd command
line.
Without it the command works, but a single core is used
instead of four, which might create confusion.
Fixes: 58a2551a16 ("doc: introduce PVP reference benchmark")
Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Since VF can not disable/enable HW CRC strip for non-DPDK PF drivers,
and kernel driver almost default enable that feature, if disable it in
app's rxmode, VF driver will report the VF launch failure. So this
patch default to enable HW CRC strip to let VF launch successful.
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Jeff Guo <jia.guo@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jingjing Wu <jingjing.wu@intel.com>
VFd (the VF daemon) is a mechanism which can be used to configure
features on a VF without direct access to the PF.
Signed-off-by: Wenzhuo Lu <wenzhuo.lu@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
After we configure QEMU we also need to call 'make' to build the binary.
This step is currently missing in the description and this patch fixes
it.
Signed-off-by: Jens Freimann <jfreiman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Update the "Virtio_user for Container Networking" doc, add the
"--file-prefix" option to testpmd in host and container to avoid
hugepage config file conflict.
Fixes: 50665deebd ("doc: add guide to use virtio-user for container networking")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Yong Wang <wang.yong19@zte.com.cn>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Acked-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Fixes: 0ba3870e75 ("doc: add guide to use virtio-user as exceptional path")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Yong Wang <wang.yong19@zte.com.cn>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
The coremask option in DPDK is difficult to use and we should be
promoting the use of the corelist (-l) option. The patch
adjusts the docs to use -l EAL option instead of the -c option.
The patch only changes the docs and not the code as the -c option
will continue to exist unless it is removed in the future. The -c
option should be kept to maintain backward compatibility.
Signed-off-by: Keith Wiles <keith.wiles@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
The images by below two commits are very unclear. Fix it.
Fixes: 50665deebd ("doc: add guide to use virtio-user for container networking")
Fixes: 0ba3870e75 ("doc: add guide to use virtio-user as exceptional path")
Suggested-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Rename tools/ into usertools/ to differentiate from buildtools/
and devtools/ while making clear these scripts are part of
DPDK runtime.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Tested-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Having reference benchmarks is important in order to obtain
reproducible performance figures.
This patch describes required steps to configure a PVP setup
using testpmd in both host and guest.
Not relying on external vSwitch ease integration in a CI loop by
not being impacted by DPDK API changes.
Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Rearrange the order of the high level documenation index into
a more logical sequence for a new user.
Also, improve some of the high-level document names.
Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
The vdev eth_bond has been renamed to net_bond.
testpmd is creating a bonding device with the old prefix.
It is changed for consistency.
The script test-null.sh was failing because using the old name
for the null vdev.
Fixes also the bonding and testpmd doc.
Fixes: 2f45703c17 ("drivers: make driver names consistent")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
dpdk-nic-bind.py script has been renamed to dpdk-devbind.py,
but some references to the old script have remained.
This commit completes the renaming.
Fixes: a5d7a3f77d ("unify tools naming")
Signed-off-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
Acked-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
Flow Bifurcation is a mechanism which uses features of advanced
Ethernet devices to split traffic between queues. It provides
the capability to let the kernel driver and DPDK driver co-exist
and take advantage of both.
It is achieved by using SR-IOV and the NIC's advanced filtering. This
patch describes Flow Bifurcation and adds the user guide for ixgbe
and i40e NICs.
Signed-off-by: Jingjing Wu <jingjing.wu@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
This patch adds an image of the Live Migration of a VM using vhost_user
on the host, test configuration.
Signed-off-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
This patch describes the procedure to be be followed to perform
Live Migration of a VM with Virtio PMD running on a host which
is running the vhost_user sample application (vhost-switch).
It includes sample host and VM scripts used in the procedure.
Signed-off-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
This patch adds an image of the Live Migration for
virtio and sriov test configuration.
Signed-off-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
This patch describes the procedure to be be followed
to perform Live Migration of a VM with Virtio and VF PMD's
using the bonding PMD.
It includes sample host and VM scripts used in the procedure,
and a sample switch configuration.
Signed-off-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
