Document NIC features, add more information about them and add more
implementation related support.
Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
Acked-by: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>
There were several tables in NIC and crypto guides with the same
copy-pasted CSS addition.
It is moved into one unique place: conf.py.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
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>
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>
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>
Convert the NIC feature table in the overview doc into a set of ini
files and add functions into the Sphinx conf.py file to auto-generate
them back into an RST table.
The reason for doing this is to make it easier for PMD maintainers to
update the feature matrix that makes up the table and to avoid
frequent and hard to resolve conflicts in doc/guides/nics/overview.rst.
A NIC/PMD feature matrix is now an ini file like the following:
$ head doc/guides/nics/nic_features/i40e.ini
;
; Features of the i40e network driver.
;
[Features]
Link status = Y
Link status event = Y
Rx interrupt = Y
Queue start/stop = Y
...
The output RST table matches the existing table with the column
headers sorted.
Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Tested-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
This patch adds support for extended statistics for BNX2X PMD.
Signed-off-by: Rasesh Mody <rasesh.mody@qlogic.com>
Acked-by: Remy Horton <remy.horton@intel.com>
This patch adds support for extended statistics for QEDE PMD.
Signed-off-by: Rasesh Mody <rasesh.mody@qlogic.com>
Acked-by: Remy Horton <remy.horton@intel.com>
Provide an update MTU callback. The function returns -ENOTSUP
if Rx scatter is enabled. Updating the MTU to be greater than
the value configured via the Cisco CIMC/UCSM management interface
is allowed provided it is still less than the maximum egress packet
size allowed by the NIC minus the size of the L2 header.
Signed-off-by: John Daley <johndale@cisco.com>
For performance reasons, this patch uses 2 VIC RQs per RQ presented to
DPDK.
The VIC requires that each descriptor be marked as either a start of
packet (SOP) descriptor or a non-SOP descriptor. A one RQ solution
requires skipping descriptors when receiving small packets and results
in bad performance when receiving many small packets.
The 2 RQ solution makes use of the VIC feature that allows a receive
on primary queue to 'spill over' into another queue if the receive is
too large to fit in the buffer assigned to the descriptor on the
primary queue. This means that there is no skipping of descriptors
when receiving small packets and results in much better performance.
Signed-off-by: Nelson Escobar <neescoba@cisco.com>
Reviewed-by: John Daley <johndale@cisco.com>
Add support for setting hash configuration based on adapter capability
and update corresponding NIC documentation.
Signed-off-by: Sony Chacko <sony.chacko@qlogic.com>
Updated doc/guides/nics/overview.rst, doc/guides/nics/thunderx.rst
and release notes
Changed "*" to "P" in overview.rst to capture the partially supported
feature as "*" creating alignment issues with Sphinx table
Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Slawomir Rosek <slawomir.rosek@semihalf.com>
Signed-off-by: Maciej Czekaj <maciej.czekaj@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
This patch adds the initial skeleton for bnxt driver along with the
nic guide, and ties the driver into the build system.
At this point, the driver simply fails init.
Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hurd <stephen.hurd@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: David Christensen <david.christensen@broadcom.com>
[Release Note Addition]
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Use ARM NEON intrinsic to implement ixgbe vPMD
Signed-off-by: Jianbo Liu <jianbo.liu@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
[style fixes as highlighted by checkpatch.pl]
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
The Qlogic Everest Driver for Ethernet(QEDE) Poll Mode Driver(PMD) is
the DPDK specific module for QLogic FastLinQ QL4xxxx 25G/40G CNA family
of adapters as well as their virtual functions (VF) in SR-IOV context.
This patch adds QEDE PMD, which interacts with base driver and
initialises the HW.
This patch content also includes:
- eth_dev_ops callbacks
- Rx/Tx support for the driver
- link default configuration
- change link property
- link up/down/update notifications
- vlan offload and filtering capability
- device/function/port statistics
- qede nic guide and updated overview.rst
Note that the follow on commits contain the code for the features mentioned
in documents but not implemented in this patch.
Signed-off-by: Harish Patil <harish.patil@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Rasesh Mody <rasesh.mody@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Sony Chacko <sony.chacko@qlogic.com>
Changed symbol on NIC overview table from X to Y to help
clarify the indicated features are supported. The X caused
confusion for some readers.
Also, added * character to indicate partially supported
features. This can be used in the future to direct the reader
to more specific details in the individual NIC guides.
Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Enable "other kdrv" because both NICs require kernel support to work.
Unicast and multicast MAC filters are also enabled as both address types can
be filtered on through the MAC add/remove/set callbacks.
Fixes: e86b85ca75 ("doc: fill nics features matrix for mlx")
Signed-off-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
Fixes: 83a4a15404 ("doc: fill nics features matrix for e1000/igb and ixgbe")
Reported-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: Wenzhuo Lu <wenzhuo.lu@intel.com>
Note: virtio is a para-virtualization device, which indicates that its
features depend on not only front end but also back end. Here by X, we
just mean the feature is supported in front end.
Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
The speed capabilities of a device can be retrieved with
rte_eth_dev_info_get().
The new field speed_capa is initialized in the drivers without
taking care of device characteristics in this patch.
When the capabilities of a driver are accurate, the table in
overview.rst must be filled.
Signed-off-by: Marc Sune <marcdevel@gmail.com>
The patch introduces a new PMD. This PMD is implemented as thin wrapper
of librte_vhost. It means librte_vhost is also needed to compile the PMD.
The vhost messages will be handled only when a port is started. So start
a port first, then invoke QEMU.
The PMD has 2 parameters.
- iface: The parameter is used to specify a path to connect to a
virtio-net device.
- queues: The parameter is used to specify the number of the queues
virtio-net device has.
(Default: 1)
Here is an example.
$ ./testpmd -c f -n 4 --vdev 'eth_vhost0,iface=/tmp/sock0,queues=1' -- -i
To connect above testpmd, here is qemu command example.
$ qemu-system-x86_64 \
<snip>
-chardev socket,id=chr0,path=/tmp/sock0 \
-netdev vhost-user,id=net0,chardev=chr0,vhostforce,queues=1 \
-device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0,mq=on
Signed-off-by: Tetsuya Mukawa <mukawa@igel.co.jp>
Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Rich Lane <rich.lane@bigswitch.com>
Tested-by: Rich Lane <rich.lane@bigswitch.com>
Update for queue state event name:
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Fill in the supported features matrix for CXGBE PMD.
Signed-off-by: Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Sanghvi <kumaras@chelsio.com>
In order to better compare the drivers and check what is missing
for a common baseline, we need to fill a matrix.
A CSS trick is used to fit the HTML page.
The PDF output needs some LaTeX wizardry.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
