19 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Rich Lane
4fce65a6be eal: default to using all cores
This is a useful default for simple applications where the assignment
of lcores to CPUs doesn't matter. It's also useful for more complex
applications that automatically assign tasks to cores based on the
NUMA topology.

Signed-off-by: Rich Lane <rich.lane@bigswitch.com>
2015-10-26 20:36:26 +01:00
John McNamara
f9d7ffec4a doc: move FAQ
The FAQ section have been moved to a standalone document.

Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2015-08-11 17:28:13 +02:00
Bruce Richardson
980ed498eb drivers: create new directory
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>
2015-05-22 15:51:38 +02:00
John McNamara
fea1d908d3 doc: fix spellings and typos
Fixed several typos and spelling errors in guide docs.

Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2015-04-29 18:34:58 +02:00
Helin Zhang
72960594d3 doc: comment i40e firmware version
Added notes for i40e firmware version. As base driver to support the
latest version of firmware (FVL3E) hasn't been integrated, currently
the validated version of firmware is 4.2.6.

Signed-off-by: Helin Zhang <helin.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Siobhan Butler <siobhan.a.butler@intel.com>
2015-04-03 15:53:54 +02:00
Bruce Richardson
5af3be004b doc: add note on needing igb_uio for VF devices
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>
2015-03-31 02:55:07 +02:00
Thomas Monjalon
efa2084a84 scripts: remove useless build tools
test-framework.sh is an old script to check building of some dependencies.
testhost is an old app used to check HOSTCC.

Let's clean the scripts directory.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
2015-03-10 17:55:25 +01:00
Bruce Richardson
974438fb34 doc: update linux guide for uio_pci_generic use
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>
2015-02-24 22:37:34 +01:00
Daniel Mrzyglod
d3aa5274ca doc: add requirements for x32 ABI
Add requirements about compiler and distribution support.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Mrzyglod <danielx.t.mrzyglod@intel.com>
Acked-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
2015-02-18 20:28:36 +01:00
Reshma Pattan
d5af8bafd7 doc: fix setup menu options in linux guide
fixed setup menu options in linux gsg to
keep in synch with setup.sh

Signed-off-by: Reshma Pattan <reshma.pattan@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
2014-12-20 00:38:38 +01:00
Siobhan Butler
5d176c3ed4 doc: update i40e tuning in linux guide
Updated the i40e Enabling Additional Functionality
section (5.7) of DPDK Getting Started Guide.

Signed-off-by: Siobhan Butler <siobhan.a.butler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Helin Zhang <helin.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
2014-12-20 00:38:38 +01:00
Chao Zhu
df6aaab37f doc: add IBM Power description to linux guide
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>
2014-12-20 00:38:38 +01:00
Pablo de Lara
caeec811da doc: remove Intel legal info from linux guide
Removed redundant Intel legal info from linux gsg.

Signed-off-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
2014-12-20 00:38:29 +01:00
Siobhan Butler
2e486e2632 doc: remove Intel references from linux guide
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>
2014-12-19 23:30:26 +01:00
Thomas Monjalon
4ba1c8b163 doc: precise title for linux guide
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
2014-12-17 01:04:07 +01:00
Bruce Richardson
a9bc351cd4 doc: auto-generate date in guides
The index.html file for each of the "guide" docs had a hard-coded
date value in them of June 2014. Rather than update each of these
for each revision, just use the |today| directive to insert the date
at which the document was generated.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
2014-12-05 17:28:23 +01:00
Bernard Iremonger
aae5e11e84 doc: fix file attributes of guides
The file attributes of the rst files have been changed to 644

Signed-off-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
2014-11-13 01:36:44 +01:00
Jincheng Miao
e8d6f51ab3 doc: fix a typo
Signed-off-by: Jincheng Miao <jmiao@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
2014-11-03 18:05:07 +01:00
Bernard Iremonger
1ab07743b2 doc: getting started guide for linux
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>
2014-10-23 14:36:42 +02:00