18 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Jerin Jacob
71f2384328 eventdev: introduce event driven programming model
In a polling model, lcores poll ethdev ports and associated
rx queues directly to look for packet. In an event driven model,
by contrast, lcores call the scheduler that selects packets for
them based on programmer-specified criteria. Eventdev library
adds support for event driven programming model, which offer
applications automatic multicore scaling, dynamic load balancing,
pipelining, packet ingress order maintenance and
synchronization services to simplify application packet processing.

By introducing event driven programming model, DPDK can support
both polling and event driven programming models for packet processing,
and applications are free to choose whatever model
(or combination of the two) that best suits their needs.

This patch adds the eventdev specification header file.

Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
2017-04-04 19:12:00 +02:00
Yuanhan Liu
a798beb47c vhost: rename header file
Rename "rte_virtio_net.h" to "rte_vhost.h", to not let it be virtio
net specific.

Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
2017-04-01 10:42:44 +02:00
Ferruh Yigit
26fb45a328 doc: add device specific API
Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
2017-01-30 23:47:11 +01:00
Pablo de Lara
56b6ef874f efd: new Elastic Flow Distributor library
Elastic Flow Distributor (EFD) is a distributor library that uses
perfect hashing to determine a target/value for a given incoming flow key.
It has the following advantages:

- First, because it uses perfect hashing, it does not store
  the key itself and hence lookup performance is not dependent
  on the key size.

- Second, the target/value can be any arbitrary value hence
  the system designer and/or operator can better optimize service rates
  and inter-cluster network traffic locating.

- Third, since the storage requirement is much smaller than a hash-based
  flow table (i.e. better fit for CPU cache), EFD can scale to
  millions of flow keys.
  Finally, with current optimized library implementation performance
  is fully scalable with number of CPU cores.

Signed-off-by: Byron Marohn <byron.marohn@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Saikrishna Edupuganti <saikrishna.edupuganti@intel.com>
Acked-by: Christian Maciocco <christian.maciocco@intel.com>
2017-01-18 20:53:28 +01:00
Jerin Jacob
69736db1d8 eal: introduce I/O device memory read/write operations
This commit introduces 8-bit, 16-bit, 32bit, 64bit I/O device
memory read/write operations along with the relaxed versions.

The weakly-ordered machine like ARM needs additional I/O barrier for
device memory read/write access over PCI bus.
By introducing the eal abstraction for I/O device memory read/write access,
The drivers can access I/O device memory in architecture agnostic manner.

The relaxed version does not have additional I/O memory barrier, useful in
accessing the device registers of integrated controllers which
implicitly strongly ordered with respect to memory access.

Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
2017-01-18 16:57:11 +01:00
Nelio Laranjeiro
86c743cf91 eal: define generic vector types
Add common vector type definitions to all CPU architectures.

Signed-off-by: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Chao Zhu <chaozhu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-01-04 21:50:19 +01:00
Adrien Mazarguil
b1a4b4cbc0 ethdev: introduce generic flow API
This new API supersedes all the legacy filter types described in
rte_eth_ctrl.h. It is slightly higher level and as a result relies more on
PMDs to process and validate flow rules.

Benefits:

- A unified API is easier to program for, applications do not have to be
  written for a specific filter type which may or may not be supported by
  the underlying device.

- The behavior of a flow rule is the same regardless of the underlying
  device, applications do not need to be aware of hardware quirks.

- Extensible by design, API/ABI breakage should rarely occur if at all.

- Documentation is self-standing, no need to look up elsewhere.

Existing filter types will be deprecated and removed in the near future.

Signed-off-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Olga Shern <olgas@mellanox.com>
2016-12-23 10:11:07 +01:00
Thomas Monjalon
65df6d069d config: remove insecure warnings
There was an option CONFIG_RTE_INSECURE_FUNCTION_WARNING (disabled by
default), which prevents from using some libc functions:
sprintf, snprintf, vsnprintf, strcpy, strncpy, strcat, strncat, sscanf,
strtok, strsep and strlen.

It's all about using them at the right place with the right precautions.
However, it is neither really possible nor a good advice to disable them.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
2016-12-07 18:34:02 +01:00
Reshma Pattan
6d059e9980 doc: add pdump library to API doxygen
Signed-off-by: Reshma Pattan <reshma.pattan@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2016-12-06 15:43:13 +01:00
David Marchand
c711ccb309 ivshmem: remove library and its EAL integration
Following discussions on the mailing list [1] and since nobody stood up to
implement the necessary cleanups, here is the ivshmem integration removal.

There is not much to say about this patch, a lot of code is being removed.
The default configuration file for packet_ordering example is replaced with
the "native" x86 file.
The only tricky part is in eal_memory with the memseg index stuff.

More cleanups can be done after this but will come in subsequent patchsets.

[1]: http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-June/040844.html

Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
2016-08-23 12:23:58 +02:00
David Marchand
e9186770ad eal: remove PCI device ids header from doxygen
This file is going to disappear, remove the doxygen parts that reference
various drivers and remove it from the doxygen index.

Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>
2016-07-11 17:35:48 +02:00
WeiJie Zhuang
9fc37d1c07 port: support KNI
add KNI port type to the packet framework

Signed-off-by: WeiJie Zhuang <zhuangwj@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Cristian Dumitrescu <cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com>
2016-06-21 18:05:45 +02:00
Declan Doherty
67f64f2e12 mbuf_offload: remove library
As cryptodev library does not depend on mbuf_offload library
any longer, this patch removes it.

Signed-off-by: Declan Doherty <declan.doherty@intel.com>
Acked-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
Acked-by: Deepak Kumar Jain <deepak.k.jain@intel.com>
2016-03-10 21:08:28 +01:00
Declan Doherty
78c8709b5d mbuf_offload: introduce library to attach offloads to mbuf
This library add support for adding a chain of offload operations to a
mbuf. It contains the definition of the rte_mbuf_offload structure as
well as helper functions for attaching  offloads to mbufs and a mempool
management functions.

This initial implementation supports attaching multiple offload
operations to a single mbuf, but only a single offload operation of a
specific type can be attach to that mbuf.

Signed-off-by: Declan Doherty <declan.doherty@intel.com>
Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>
2015-11-25 19:18:04 +01:00
Declan Doherty
d11b0f30df cryptodev: introduce API and framework for crypto devices
This patch contains the initial proposed APIs and device framework for
integrating crypto packet processing into DPDK.

features include:
 - Crypto device configuration / management APIs
 - Definitions of supported cipher algorithms and operations.
 - Definitions of supported hash/authentication algorithms and
   operations.
 - Crypto session management APIs
 - Crypto operation data structures and APIs allocation of crypto
   operation structure used to specify the crypto operations to
   be performed  on a particular mbuf.
 - Extension of mbuf to contain crypto operation data pointer and
   extra flags.
 - Burst enqueue / dequeue APIs for processing of crypto operations.

Signed-off-by: Des O Dea <des.j.o.dea@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Griffin <john.griffin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Fiona Trahe <fiona.trahe@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Declan Doherty <declan.doherty@intel.com>
Acked-by: Sergio Gonzalez Monroy <sergio.gonzalez.monroy@intel.com>
2015-11-25 19:18:04 +01:00
Remy Horton
75583b0d1e eal: add keep alive monitoring
Adds functions for detecting and reporting the live-ness of LCores,
the primary requirement of which is minimal overheads for the
core(s) being checked. Core failures are notified via an application
defined callback.

Signed-off-by: Remy Horton <remy.horton@intel.com>
2015-11-19 15:44:51 +01:00
Thomas Monjalon
2b3f27eea1 doc: add missing API headers
Some libraries were not included in doxygen documentation.
Other ones were included but not listed in the index.

The malloc library is now included in EAL.

The libraries compat and jobstats are added but not doxygen compliant.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
2015-08-11 18:28:10 +02:00
Thomas Monjalon
6b919b0f8c doc: move doxygen files in api subdirectory
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
2014-10-15 22:25:00 +02:00