The UIO and VFIO sections should not be part of
the "Compiling the DPDK Target from Source" chapter,
as it is PMD specific and not true for all PMDs.
Instead, moving those sections to a new chapter
which include all kernel drivers being used along with
the different PMDs.
Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
This patch adds two note in doc build_dpdk, suggests DPDK user
don't use ``vfio-pci`` and ``uio_pci_generic`` module to create
virtual functions(VFs).
Signed-off-by: Qiming Yang <qiming.yang@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>
DPDK source archives are .tar.xz or .tar.gz, not .zip. Use .tar.xz in the
instructions, since that is what the main download page links to.
Also, correct the archive file and directory name capitalization.
Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Lists of DPDK files are hard to maintain up to date and does not bring
much information.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
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>
The following tools may be installed system-wide.
It may be cleaner and more convenient to find them with the same
dpdk- prefix (especially for autocompletion).
Moreover, the script dpdk_nic_bind.py deserves a new name because it is
not restricted to NICs and can be used for e.g. crypto.
These files are renamed:
pmdinfogen -> dpdk-pmdinfogen
pmdinfo.py -> dpdk-pmdinfo.py
dpdk_pdump -> dpdk-pdump
dpdk_proc_info -> dpdk-procinfo
dpdk_nic_bind.py -> dpdk-devbind.py
setup.sh -> dpdk-setup.sh
The tools pmdinfogen, pmdinfo.py and dpdk_pdump are new in 16.07.
The scripts dpdk_nic_bind.py and setup.sh may have been used with
previous releases by end users. That's why a symbolic link still
provide the old name in the installed tools directory.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
The recipe rte.hostapp.mk does not build in hostapp/ anymore.
Fixes: 98b0fdb0ffc6 ("pmdinfogen: add buildtools and pmdinfogen utility")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Fix missing link in the Linux GSG, accidentally removed
in previous merge:
WARNING: undefined label: linux_gsg_compiling_dpdk
Fixes: 29c673401c4d ("doc: improve Linux guide layout")
Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
Add a new guide doc as part of the Linux Getting Started Guide.
The document is a step-by-step guide on how to get high performance
with DPDK on an Intel platform.
It is designed for users who are not familiar with DPDK but would like
to get the best performance with NICs.
Signed-off-by: Qian Xu <qian.q.xu@intel.com>
The multi-target install create some subdirectories with the target name
which is not standard for a "make install" procedure.
The uninstall procedure cannot be applied properly (without removing
all files in a directory). It would need to pre-compute paths.
As it is a packaging issue, it is removed from the build system capabilities.
The variable BUILD_DIR is also renamed to RTE_OUTPUT used in other files.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com>
Add a new top-level "drivers" directory to which all PMDs will be moved
for easier maintenance of both lib folder and drivers themselves. This
new directory is a dependency of all the apps in the app folder, so
the makefiles for each app are updated.
To the new top-level directory add a "net" subdirectory to classify
more specifically our existing PMDs as ethernet drivers
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
[Thomas: fix dependencies and merge several patches]
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Since the uio_pci_generic module requires that the device to which it is
being bound supports legacy interrupts, there can be problems using it
with VF devices. Add a note to the GSG doc to document this fact, and
provide information on loading igb_uio as a replacement.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
Acked-by: Siobhan Butler <siobhan.a.butler@intel.com>
Since DPDK now has support for the in-tree uio_pci_generic driver,
update the GSG document to reference this module, and to use it
in preference to the igb_uio driver, which is DPDK-specific.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
This patch added IBM ppc_64 descriptions, including architecture
support, compiling requirements on Linux.
Signed-off-by: Chao Zhu <chaozhu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
Removed references to Intel which
are no longer relevant in linux gsg.
Signed-off-by: Siobhan Butler <siobhan.a.butler@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
The 1.7 DPDK_Linux_GSG document in MSWord has been converted to rst format for
use with Sphinx. There is an rst file for each chapter and an index.rst file
which contains the table of contents.
This is the first document from a set of documents.
Signed-off-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
