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Christian Ehrhardt
630f6ec11e mk: provide option to set major ABI version
Downstreams might want to provide different DPDK releases at the same
time to support multiple consumers of DPDK linked against older and newer
sonames.

Also due to the interdependencies that DPDK libraries can have applications
might end up with an executable space in which multiple versions of a
library are mapped by ld.so.

Think of LibA that got an ABI bump and LibB that did not get an ABI bump
but is depending on LibA.

    Application
    \-> LibA.old
    \-> LibB.new -> LibA.new

That is a conflict which can be avoided by setting CONFIG_RTE_MAJOR_ABI.
If set CONFIG_RTE_MAJOR_ABI overwrites any LIBABIVER value.
An example might be ``CONFIG_RTE_MAJOR_ABI=16.11`` which will make all
libraries librte<?>.so.16.11 instead of librte<?>.so.<LIBABIVER>.

We need to cut arbitrary long stings after the .so now and this would work
for any ABI version in LIBABIVER:
  $(Q)ln -s -f $< $(patsubst %.$(LIBABIVER),%,$@)
But using the following instead additionally allows to simplify the Make
File for the CONFIG_RTE_NEXT_ABI case.
  $(Q)ln -s -f $< $(shell echo $@ | sed 's/\.so.*/.so/')

Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org>
2017-03-16 18:20:01 +01:00
Vladyslav Buslov
d89a5bce1d lpm6: extend next hop field
This patch extend next_hop field from 8-bits to 21-bits in LPM library
for IPv6.

Added versioning symbols to functions and updated
library and applications that have a dependency on LPM library.

Signed-off-by: Vladyslav Buslov <vladyslav.buslov@harmonicinc.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
2017-03-15 18:49:41 +01:00
Pascal Mazon
5852bf6ae1 app/testpmd: add default MAC set command
Signed-off-by: Pascal Mazon <pascal.mazon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Jingjing Wu <jingjing.wu@intel.com>
2017-03-15 18:21:49 +01:00
Hemant Agrawal
5a11168d9b mbuf: use pktmbuf helper to create the pool
When possible, replace the uses of rte_mempool_create() with
the helper provided in librte_mbuf: rte_pktmbuf_pool_create().

This is the preferred way to create a mbuf pool.

This also updates the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
2017-03-15 13:48:02 +01:00
Thomas Monjalon
31123211bd remove unmaintained TILE-Gx architecture
The TILE-Gx architecture and its driver mpipe are not maintained.
The code is removed to avoid confusion.

A last update has been done in 17.05 before removal.
It can be built with the updated toolchain:
	http://www.mellanox.com/repository/solutions/tile-scm/
and libgxio:
	http://www.mellanox.com/repository/solutions/tile-scm/libgxio-1.0.tar.xz

Quote from http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-February/057940.html
"
Mellanox agrees to remove TILE-Gx support from DPDK.org, but will continue
to support customers using DPDK.
Customer that needs support should contact Mellanox directly.
"

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
2017-03-15 11:40:57 +01:00
Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan
0fe9830b53 eal/ppc: support sPAPR IOMMU for vfio-pci
Below changes adds pci probing support for vfio-pci devices in power8.

Signed-off-by: Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan <gowrishankar.m@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Acked-by: Chao Zhu <chaozhu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-03-09 18:39:45 +01:00
Bruce Richardson
7968191b5a doc: add details on requirements for patch ack and merge
Add to the contributors guide the requirements and guidelines for
getting patches acked and merged. It details at what point the review
comments and the ack's need to be received in order to have a given
patch merged into a release.

These guidelines are as agreed by the DPDK technical board at the
meeting held on 2017-02-15.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2017-03-09 14:48:22 +01:00
Julien Castets
b0c958e14d doc: fix renamed bind tool
Fixes: a5d7a3f77d ("unify tools naming")

Signed-off-by: Julien Castets <jcastets@scaleway.com>
2017-03-06 17:53:21 +01:00
Keith Wiles
35b09d76f8 doc: use corelist instead of coremask
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>
2017-03-01 20:39:58 +01:00
Ferruh Yigit
87676d20df doc: add test related rules in make help
Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2017-02-28 16:13:22 +01:00
Thomas Monjalon
9822231572 doc: add default values of install variables
The variables DESTDIR and prefix are used with "make install"
to copy the files in $DESTDIR$prefix.
Their default values will be shown when calling "make help".

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2017-02-27 15:42:22 +01:00
Thomas Monjalon
f229692d23 doc: highlight pointed column in NIC overview table
Every cells of a driver column are painted in yellow.

The trick is to generate some empty content as a big column
above and below the pointed cell.

The position: relative attribute is used for the highlight position
but it makes the border to disappear.

The overflow: hidden attribute is used to mask the generated content
outside of the table.

The class .wy-nav-content has a background which masks the highlighting.
Setting an opacity lower than 1, creates a new stack context and let
the column highlight to be shown.

The background of odd rows was grey and opaque. It is redefined with
a transparent alpha ratio in order to see highlighting on such rows.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2017-02-26 17:20:05 +01:00
Thomas Monjalon
d86c9db708 doc: highlight pointed row in NIC overview table
Every cells of a feature row are painted in yellow.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2017-02-26 17:20:00 +01:00
Thomas Monjalon
38e4ea32e2 doc: set alignments in NIC overview table
Some CSS alignments were not explicitly set.
The pointer is also set to default for the table.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2017-02-26 17:19:44 +01:00
Olivier Matz
93092a5610 mempool: remove deprecated get and put functions
As announced in the deprecation notice, remove the functions for
single/multi producer/consumer enqueue/dequeue.

Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
2017-02-21 12:05:46 +01:00
Olivier Matz
f3bc028909 mempool: remove deprecated count functions
As announced in the deprecation notice, remove these functions.

Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
2017-02-21 12:05:46 +01:00
Ferruh Yigit
aa0d7c2d32 kni: remove KNI vhost support
Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
2017-02-21 11:43:07 +01:00
Ferruh Yigit
b99f4e4b2d doc: add removed items section to release notes
Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2017-02-21 11:43:07 +01:00
John McNamara
c75c6c4bce doc: add template release notes for 17.05
Add template release notes for DPDK 17.05 with inline
comments and explanations of the various sections.

Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.ricahrdson@intel.com>
2017-02-17 11:36:15 +01:00
John McNamara
dbe29a6258 doc: update release notes for 17.02
Fix grammar, spelling and formatting of DPDK 17.02 release notes.

Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2017-02-14 21:58:04 +01:00
Harry van Haaren
4aeedc255e doc: add description of review tags
This commit details what is meant by the various email
tags that the DPDK community use regularly. The descriptions
state what each tag means, drawing from the kernel's understanding[1],
and the discussion on the DPDK mailing list[2].

Signed-off-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>

[1]
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html#when-to-use-acked-by-and-cc

[2] http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-January/thread.html#56300
2017-02-14 21:54:44 +01:00
Pablo de Lara
b09efeb9d5 doc: add thread-safety information about EFD library
Signed-off-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2017-02-14 21:48:36 +01:00
Akhil Goyal
db4b919074 doc: announce API change for cryptodev sessions info
A new parameter is planned to be added in 17.05 release in
rte_cryptodev_info.sym - max_nb_sessions_per_qp.

This will allow applications to know the maximum number of session
which can be attached to queue_pairs of device.

Signed-off-by: Akhil Goyal <akhil.goyal@nxp.com>
Acked-by: Declan Doherty <declan.doherty@intel.com>
Acked-by: Fiona Trahe <fiona.trahe@intel.com>
Acked-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
2017-02-14 21:41:49 +01:00
Fan Zhang
82862986ad doc: announce ABI change for cryptodev configuration
Signed-off-by: Fan Zhang <roy.fan.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Acked-by: Declan Doherty <declan.doherty@intel.com>
Acked-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
2017-02-14 21:39:15 +01:00
Ferruh Yigit
d938931b8f doc: announce KNI vhost removal
Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
2017-02-14 21:30:58 +01:00
Yuanhan Liu
a5c44ed455 doc: announce API changes for vhost
I made a vhost ABI/API refactoring at v16.04, meant to avoid such issue
forever. Well, apparently, I lied.

People are looking for more vhost-user options now days, other than
vhost-user net only. For example, SPDK (Storage Performance Development
Kit) are looking for chance of vhost-user SCSI and vhost-user block.

Apparently, they also need a vhost-user backend, while DPDK already
has a (mature enough) backend, they don't want to implement it again
from scratch. They want to leverage the one DPDK provides.

However, the last refactoring hasn't done that right, at least it's
not friendly for extending vhost-user to add more devices support.
For example, different virtio devices has its own feature set, while
APIs like rte_vhost_feature_disable(feature_mask) have no option to
tell the device type. Thus, a more proper API should look like:

    rte_vhost_feature_disable(device_type, feature_mask);

Besides that, few public files and structures should be renamed, to
not let it bind to virtio-net. Specifically, they are:

- virtio_net_device_ops --> vhost_device_ops
- rte_virtio_net.h      --> rte_vhost.h

Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
2017-02-14 21:28:14 +01:00
Bernard Iremonger
610b7b78e0 doc: announce move of ethdev bypass function to ixgbe API
In 17.05, nine rte_eth_dev_* functions for bypass control,
and implemented only in ixgbe, will be removed from ethdev,
renamed and moved to the ixgbe PMD-specific API.

Signed-off-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
2017-02-14 20:35:53 +01:00
Thomas Monjalon
8b2b62fdcf doc: postpone API change in ethdev
The change of _rte_eth_dev_callback_process has not been done in 17.02.
Let's postpone to 17.05.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
2017-02-14 20:26:45 +01:00
Shreyansh Jain
1c27f182fc doc: announce VFIO symbols renaming for export
Some vfio symbols need to be exported outside librte_eal.
For that, they need to be renamed to rte_* naming convention.

Signed-off-by: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
2017-02-14 20:26:45 +01:00
Thomas Monjalon
c1f07dd16d doc: announce API changes to implement the bus model
The new bus model has been proposed in 17.02 without being used.
The big rework should happen in 17.05.

Suggested-by: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2017-02-14 20:26:45 +01:00
Bruce Richardson
1a80a32cd1 doc: announce ABI change for ring library
Document proposed changes for the rings code in the next release.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
2017-02-14 20:26:45 +01:00
Thomas Monjalon
4c2128edee doc: announce TILE-Gx removal
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
2017-02-14 18:13:48 +01:00
Jianfeng Tan
9375228852 doc: fix images of virtio-user tutorials
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>
2017-02-14 15:23:18 +01:00
Thomas Monjalon
f17ba2b291 doc: introduce tested platforms as combinations
Add some text and rearrange lists to make sure it is clear that the
tested platforms listed in the release notes are some combinations
of the items in each group.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2017-02-14 15:21:14 +01:00
Shreyansh Jain
59fc318ec4 doc: add EAL bus support in release notes
Signed-off-by: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
2017-02-14 15:15:00 +01:00
Yulong Pei
38ca45ce6d doc: add tested Intel platforms in the release notes
Add tested Intel platforms with Intel NICs to the release note.

Signed-off-by: Yulong Pei <yulong.pei@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2017-02-14 14:29:25 +01:00
Nelio Laranjeiro
a114e31059 doc: update release notes for mlx5
Signed-off-by: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2017-02-14 14:29:23 +01:00
Nelio Laranjeiro
3730c188e9 doc: update release notes for mlx4
Signed-off-by: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2017-02-14 14:29:17 +01:00
Nelio Laranjeiro
d4b29993ec doc: merge test sections in release notes
These sections do not provide the exact tests that were done nor whether
specific NICs are supported by all platforms.

Signed-off-by: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2017-02-14 14:28:45 +01:00
David Hunt
7a53028af5 doc: add distributor library API change notice
Given that the packet distributor library improvements (1) will
not be in 17.02, I plan on doing some consolidation of the
API for burst operation for 17.05, merging the two api's into
one, with options for single or burst operation.

(1) http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/19911/

Signed-off-by: David Hunt <david.hunt@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
2017-02-13 17:28:16 +01:00
Shreyansh Jain
b84be21b92 doc: remove deprecation notice for bus abstraction
Signed-off-by: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>
2017-02-13 17:10:33 +01:00
Olivier Matz
e19138a2a2 doc: postpone ABI changes to 17.05
Postpone the ABI changes for mempool and mbuf that were planned
for 17.02 to 17.05.

Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
2017-02-13 15:20:28 +01:00
Thomas Monjalon
587e41a888 doc: remove announce of Tx preparation
The feature is part of 17.02, so the ABI changes notice can be removed.

Fixes: 4fb7e803eb ("ethdev: add Tx preparation")

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
2017-02-13 11:54:34 +01:00
Pablo de Lara
6b72aad61f doc: clarify multi-buffer crypto library version support
AES-NI MB PMD uses external Multi-Buffer library,
which is hosted in github, but the version was not specified
in the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
Acked-by: Deepak Kumar Jain <deepak.k.jain@intel.com>
2017-02-10 16:06:06 +01:00
Fiona Trahe
4fa706bf48 doc: add limitations section to cryptoperf guide
Add limitations to use of the dpdk-test-crypto-perf
tool for hardware accelerator measurements

Signed-off-by: Fiona Trahe <fiona.trahe@intel.com>
Acked-by: Slawomir Mrozowicz <slawomirx.mrozowicz@intel.com>
2017-02-10 16:03:42 +01:00
Jingjing Wu
26dda4604f doc: add known issue for i40e statistics
Rx statistic is incorrect when packet is oversize.

Signed-off-by: Jingjing Wu <jingjing.wu@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2017-02-10 12:25:50 +01:00
Wenzhuo Lu
9aaa9954ee doc: announce ixgbe MTU setting limitation
Signed-off-by: Wenzhuo Lu <wenzhuo.lu@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2017-02-10 12:25:50 +01:00
Wenzhuo Lu
31214d491b doc: fix titles of ixgbe guide
The framework of the ixgbe doc is not appropriate,
adjust it.

Fixes: 972e365bfe ("doc: nics guide")
CC: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Wenzhuo Lu <wenzhuo.lu@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2017-02-10 12:25:50 +01:00
Keith Wiles
0f22423470 net/tap: fix guide for device name
Fixes: 02f96a0a82 ("net/tap: add TUN/TAP device PMD")

Signed-off-by: Keith Wiles <keith.wiles@intel.com>
Acked-by: Pascal Mazon <pascal.mazon@6wind.com>
2017-02-10 12:25:49 +01:00
Jianfeng Tan
18aea6b6f8 doc: postpone ABI changes in igb_uio
This ABI changes to remove iomem and ioport mapping in igb_uio. The
purpose of this changes was to fix a bug: when DPDK app crashes,
those devices by igb_uio are not stopped either DPDK PMD driver or
igb_uio driver.

Then it has been pointed out by Stephen Hemminger that it has
backward compatibility issue: cannot run old version DPDK on
modified igb_uio.

However, we still have not figure out a new way to fix this bug
without this change. Let's postpone this deprecation announcement
in case this change cannot be avoided.

Fixes: 3bac1dbc1e ("doc: announce iomem and ioport removal from igb_uio")

Suggested-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Suggested-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Suggested-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
2017-02-10 11:49:17 +01:00