8 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Wenzhuo Lu
a83d9f26a0 doc: add how to use VF daemon
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>
2017-04-06 22:32:56 +02:00
Jianfeng Tan
0ba3870e75 doc: add guide to use virtio-user as exceptional path
Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
2017-02-10 11:49:16 +01:00
Jianfeng Tan
50665deebd doc: add guide to use virtio-user for container networking
Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
2017-02-10 11:49:16 +01:00
Maxime Coquelin
58a2551a16 doc: introduce PVP reference benchmark
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>
2016-12-20 11:03:46 +01:00
John McNamara
8ccc927962 doc: rearrange the high level index
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>
2016-11-13 15:25:12 +01:00
Jingjing Wu
7123fa5ae7 doc: add flow bifurcation howto on Linux
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>
2016-07-22 19:58:10 +02:00
Bernard Iremonger
6993fe1375 doc: add VM live migration howto with vhost-user
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>
2016-07-22 19:58:10 +02:00
Bernard Iremonger
206b6ba882 doc: add VF live migration howto with bonded virtio
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>
2016-07-22 19:58:10 +02:00