This patch extensively reworks the howto guide on using virtio-user for
exception packets. Changes include:
* rename "exceptional path" to "exception path"
* remove references to uio and just reference vfio-pci
* simplify testpmd command-lines, giving a basic usage example first
before adding on detail about checksum or TSO parameters
* give a complete working example showing traffic flowing through the
whole system from a testpmd loopback using the created TAP netdev
* replace use of "ifconfig" with Linux standard "ip" command
* other general rewording.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Chenbo Xia <chenbo.xia@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
This is a new packet capture application to replace existing pdump.
The new application works like Wireshark dumpcap program and supports
the pdump API features.
It is not complete yet some features such as filtering are not implemented.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Now this feature is no longer supported by kernel side, (i40e kernel
driver doesn't support it from v2.3.2 and ixgbe kernel driver isn't
guaranteed to support this feature as well in the future), so remove the
Intel PMD examples to avoid confusion.
Signed-off-by: Xiaolong Ye <xiaolong.ye@intel.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Add svg images for debug and troubleshoot guide.
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>
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>
The images by below two commits are very unclear. Fix it.
Fixes: 50665deebda ("doc: add guide to use virtio-user for container networking")
Fixes: 0ba3870e755 ("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>
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>
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 adds an image of the Live Migration of a VM using vhost_user
on the host, test configuration.
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 adds an image of the Live Migration for
virtio and sriov test configuration.
Signed-off-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
