Add user guide on debugging and troubleshooting for common
issues and bottleneck found in the sample application model.
Signed-off-by: Vipin Varghese <vipin.varghese@intel.com>
Acked-by: Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
This patch adds all documentation for telemetry.
A description on how to use the Telemetry API with a DPDK
application is given in this document.
It also adds a release notes update for telemetry.
Signed-off-by: Ciara Power <ciara.power@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Archbold <brian.archbold@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Laatz <kevin.laatz@intel.com>
Acked-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
Acked-by: Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>
As the rte_flow is a new complex module in the DPDK.
In order to ease developers in to using this feature
it was suggested to supply a simple howto doc.
Signed-off-by: Ori Kam <orika@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Add How-To doc to describe the use of the pdump library
and the dpdk-pdump tool to capture traffic on DPDK
ports.
Signed-off-by: Reshma Pattan <reshma.pattan@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
