Make sure that we always prioritize VFIO over UIO. Also, minor wording
corrections and improvements.
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
The current instructions are slightly out of date when it comes to
providing information about setting up the system for using DPDK as
non-root, so update them.
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
This patch corrects a grammatical error by changing 'an DPDK' to 'a DPDK',
so that the sentences can become grammatically accurate.
Fixes: 2e486e26328c ("doc: remove Intel references from linux guide")
Fixes: 48624fd96e7c ("doc: remove Intel references from prog guide")
Fixes: e0c7c4731957 ("doc: remove Intel references from sample apps guide")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Sarosh Arif <sarosh.arif@emumba.com>
Reviewed-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
As decided in the Technical Board in November 2019,
the kernel module igb_uio is moved to the dpdk-kmods repository
in the /linux/igb_uio/ directory.
Minutes of Technical Board meeting:
https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-November/151763.html
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>
Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Make is no longer supported for compiling DPDK, references are now
removed in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ciara Power <ciara.power@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Since modern kernels don't allow unprivileged processes to read the
pagemaps file, the instructions on running as non-root are out-of-date. Add
a note clarifying that they will only work with earlier kernel versions.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
The Linux Getting Started Guide contains
parts which are specific for i40e PMD. This results
in confusion for users which read the guide at their
first try with DPDK.
Moving those parts to the i40e NIC manual.
Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Update the 'High Performance of Small Packets on 40G NIC' section of the
Getting Started Guide (GSG) as the firmware version referenced for a NIC
using the i40e driver was version 4.2.5 which is no longer validated.
Instruct users to consult release notes for current validated firmware
versions.
Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
The driver i40e was using a specific PCI config before the release 16.04.
Since 16.04, it is always enabled in i40e (commit 56465cfaf).
The API has been deprecated in the commit 68f77593823cab.
The igb_uio implementation has been deprecated in commit b7cf8e155.
The config helper - through igb_uio sysfs entries - is now removed.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Helin Zhang <helin.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>
It deprecates sys files of 'extended_tag' and
'max_read_request_size' which was not documented.
Signed-off-by: Helin Zhang <helin.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jingjing Wu <jingjing.wu@intel.com>
PCIe feature of 'Extended Tag' is important for 40G performance.
It adds its enabling during each port initialization, to ensure
the high performance.
Signed-off-by: Helin Zhang <helin.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jingjing Wu <jingjing.wu@intel.com>
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>
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>
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>
