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770 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Nelson Escobar
53fa8cc0d5 net/enic: enable link check interrupt
Signed-off-by: Nelson Escobar <neescoba@cisco.com>
Reviewed-by: John Daley <johndale@cisco.com>
2016-09-30 12:27:18 +02:00
Jianbo Liu
7b0cf70135 net/i40e: support ARM platform
And add read memory barrier to avoid status inconsistency
between two Rx descriptors readings.

Signed-off-by: Jianbo Liu <jianbo.liu@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>
2016-09-30 12:27:18 +02:00
Jerin Jacob
b72a77685f net/thunderx: support 81xx SoC
81xx NIC subsystem differs in new PCI subsystem_device_id and
NICVF_CAP_CQE_RX2 capability.

Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
2016-09-30 12:27:18 +02:00
Yaacov Hazan
ade188a516 net/mlx5: fix flow director drop mode
Packet rejection was routed to a polled queue.  This patch route them to a
dummy queue which is not polled.

Fixes: 76f5c99e68 ("mlx5: support flow director")

Signed-off-by: Yaacov Hazan <yaacovh@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>
2016-09-30 12:27:18 +02:00
Rami Rosen
3702a284e0 doc: fix typo in VF guide
This patch fixes a typo in doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst.

Fixes: fc1f2750a3 ("doc: programmers guide")

Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <rami.rosen@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
2016-09-30 12:27:18 +02:00
Yong Wang
a6cebea95c net/vmxnet3: enable LRO
This change enables device LRO if requested.

The current implementation of jumbo frame Rx can be used for LRO
directly without changes.

Note that since jumbo frame uses both ring0 and ring1, it cannot
be enabled in UPT (VMDirectPath) mode.

Signed-off-by: Yong Wang <yongwang@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
2016-09-30 12:27:18 +02:00
Yong Wang
89ba919505 net/vmxnet3: update NIC documentation
Signed-off-by: Yong Wang <yongwang@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
2016-09-30 12:27:18 +02:00
Yong Wang
2459504193 net/vmxnet3: update feature doc
Signed-off-by: Yong Wang <yongwang@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
2016-09-30 12:27:18 +02:00
Zhiyong Yang
4d6cf2ac93 net/vhost: add extended statistics
This feature adds vhost pmd extended statistics from per port perspective
in order to meet the requirements of the applications such as OVS etc.
RX/TX xstats count the bytes without CRC. This is different from physical
NIC stats with CRC.

The statistics counters are based on RFC 2819 and RFC 2863 as follows:

rx/tx_good_packets
rx/tx_total_bytes
rx/tx_missed_pkts
rx/tx_broadcast_packets
rx/tx_multicast_packets
rx/tx_unicast_packets
rx/tx_undersize_errors
rx/tx_size_64_packets
rx/tx_size_65_to_127_packets;
rx/tx_size_128_to_255_packets;
rx/tx_size_256_to_511_packets;
rx/tx_size_512_to_1023_packets;
rx/tx_size_1024_to_1522_packets;
rx/tx_1523_to_max_packets;
rx/tx_errors
rx_fragmented_errors
rx_jabber_errors
rx_unknown_protos_packets;

No API is changed or added.
rte_eth_xstats_get_names() to retrieve what kinds of vhost xstats are
supported,
rte_eth_xstats_get() to retrieve vhost extended statistics,
rte_eth_xstats_reset() to reset vhost extended statistics.

The usage of vhost pmd xstats is the same as virtio pmd xstats.
for example, when test-pmd application is running in interactive mode
vhost pmd xstats will support the two following commands:

show port xstats all | port_id will show vhost xstats
clear port xstats all | port_id will reset vhost xstats

net/virtio pmd xstats(the function virtio_update_packet_stats) is used
as reference when implementing the feature.

Tested-by: Ciara Loftus <ciara.loftus@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhiyong Yang <zhiyong.yang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
2016-09-29 15:08:08 +02:00
Jerin Jacob
2d7c37194e net/virtio: add NEON based Rx handler
Added neon based Rx vector implementation.
Selection of the new handler based neon availability at runtime.
Updated the release notes and MAINTAINERS file.

Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jianbo Liu <jianbo.liu@linaro.org>
2016-09-28 02:18:39 +02:00
Maxime Coquelin
2304dd73d2 vhost: support indirect Tx descriptors
Indirect descriptors are usually supported by virtio-net devices,
allowing to dispatch a larger number of requests.

When the virtio device sends a packet using indirect descriptors,
only one slot is used in the ring, even for large packets.

The main effect is to improve the 0% packet loss benchmark.
A PVP benchmark using Moongen (64 bytes) on the TE, and testpmd
(fwd io for host, macswap for VM) on DUT shows a +50% gain for
zero loss.

On the downside, micro-benchmark using testpmd txonly in VM and
rxonly on host shows a loss between 1 and 4%. But depending on
the needs, feature can be disabled at VM boot time by passing
indirect_desc=off argument to vhost-user device in Qemu.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
2016-09-28 02:18:33 +02:00
Yuanhan Liu
466d914b01 vhost: remove vhost-cuse
remove vhost-cuse code, including the eventfd_link kernel module that
is for vhost-cuse only.

The lib/virt/qemu-wrap.py is also removed, as it's mainly for vhost-cuse
usage.

As we have one vhost implementation now, one vhost config option is
needed only. Thus, CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_VHOST_USER is removed.

Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
2016-09-13 05:25:08 +02:00
Jianfeng Tan
6545392887 examples/vhost: remove VLAN strip option
When VMDQ is enabled, different NICs have different behaviors for
disabling VLAN strip. In detail, i40e only enables/disables it of
PF's main vsi; fm10k cannot disable VLAN strip, etc. We now remove
this option, --vlan-strip, to reduce any confusion. And now, VLAN
strip will be enabled and cannot be disabled.

Reported-by: Qian Xu <qian.q.xu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
2016-09-13 05:25:08 +02:00
David Marchand
c830cb2954 drivers: use PCI registration macro
Simplify crypto and ethdev pci drivers init by using newly introduced
init macros and helpers.
Those drivers then don't need to register as "rte_driver"s anymore.

Exceptions:
- virtio and mlx* use RTE_INIT directly as they have custom initialization
  steps.
- VDEV devices are not modified - they continue to use PMD_REGISTER_DRIVER.

Update documentation for replacing an example referring to
PMD_REGISTER_DRIVER.

Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>
2016-10-03 16:33:23 +02:00
Pablo de Lara
2f45703c17 drivers: make driver names consistent
As discussed in the past release, driver names are modified
to be more consistent, and the future driver should follow
this new convention.

Driver names consist of:
"driver category"_"driver folder name"_"optional extra name".

For example:
- Crypto null driver       -> "crypto_null"
- Network IXGBE VF driver  -> "net_ixgbe_vf"

Signed-off-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
2016-09-16 11:55:59 +02:00
Mauricio Vasquez B
27746740d0 doc: fix versioning example
The example only had as return type struct, it is actually
struct rte_acl_ctx *

Signed-off-by: Mauricio Vasquez B <mauricio.vasquez@polito.it>
2016-08-24 17:35:52 +02:00
Deirdre O'Connor
28d8abaf25 doc: fix patchwork link
Fixes: 58abf6e77c ("doc: add contributors guide")

Reported-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@netgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Deirdre O'Connor <deirdre.o.connor@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2016-08-23 18:52:18 +02:00
Thomas Monjalon
562ad630f4 doc: remove useless file listings
Lists of DPDK files are hard to maintain up to date and does not bring
much information.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
2016-08-23 15:16:29 +02:00
David Marchand
c711ccb309 ivshmem: remove library and its EAL integration
Following discussions on the mailing list [1] and since nobody stood up to
implement the necessary cleanups, here is the ivshmem integration removal.

There is not much to say about this patch, a lot of code is being removed.
The default configuration file for packet_ordering example is replaced with
the "native" x86 file.
The only tricky part is in eal_memory with the memseg index stuff.

More cleanups can be done after this but will come in subsequent patchsets.

[1]: http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-June/040844.html

Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
2016-08-23 12:23:58 +02:00
Pablo de Lara
5d75454c61 doc: fix references to old binding script
dpdk-nic-bind.py script has been renamed to dpdk-devbind.py,
but some references to the old script have remained.
This commit completes the renaming.

Fixes: a5d7a3f77d ("unify tools naming")

Signed-off-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
Acked-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
2016-08-22 23:03:00 +02:00
Thomas Monjalon
d7e61ad3ae log: remove deprecated history dump
The log history feature was deprecated in 16.07.
The remaining empty functions are removed in 16.11.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>
2016-08-03 18:48:54 +02:00
Thomas Monjalon
5358152fa2 doc: postpone mempool ABI breakage
It was planned to remove some mempool functions which are deprecated
since 16.07.
As no other mempool ABI change is planned in 16.11, it is better
to postpone and group every mempool ABI changes in 17.02.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
2016-08-03 18:42:17 +02:00
John McNamara
9db3f52126 doc: generate NIC overview table from ini files
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>
2016-08-03 18:42:17 +02:00
John McNamara
b0a1419a88 doc: add template release notes for 16.11
Add template release notes for DPDK 16.11 with inline
comments and explanations of the various sections.

Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2016-07-29 13:56:07 +02:00
Fan Zhang
5e2a686cd4 doc: announce API change in port library
The API changes are planned for rte_port_source_params and
rte_port_sink_params, which will be supported from release 16.11.

Signed-off-by: Fan Zhang <roy.fan.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Cristian Dumitrescu <cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
2016-07-28 20:27:13 +02:00
Yuanhan Liu
8a3433af84 doc: announce vhost-cuse removal
Vhost-cuse was invented before vhost-user exist. The both are actually
doing the same thing: a vhost-net implementation in user space. But they
are not exactly the same thing.

Firstly, vhost-cuse is harder for use; no one seems to care it, either.
Furthermore, since v2.1, a large majority of development effort has gone
to vhost-user. For example, we extended the vhost-user spec to add the
multiple queue support. We also added the vhost-user live migration at
v16.04 and the latest one, vhost-user reconnect that allows vhost app
restart without restarting the guest. Both of them are very important
features for product usage and none of them works for vhost-cuse.

You now see that the difference between vhost-user and vhost-cuse is
big (and will be bigger and bigger as time moves forward), that you
should never use vhost-cuse, that we should drop it completely.

The remove would also result to a much cleaner code base, allowing us
to do all kinds of extending easier.

So here to mark vhost-cuse as deprecated in this release and will be
removed in the next release (v16.11).

Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Ciara Loftus <ciara.loftus@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Rich Lane <rich.lane@bigswitch.com>
Acked-by: Jan Viktorin <viktorin@rehivetech.com>
Acked-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
2016-07-28 20:12:18 +02:00
Thomas Monjalon
8acc3ce088 doc: announce ivshmem support removal
There was a prior call with an explanation of what needs to be done:
	http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-June/040844.html
- Qemu patch upstreamed
- IVSHMEM PCI device managed by a PCI driver
- No DPDK objects (ring/mempool) allocated by EAL

As nobody seems interested, it is time to remove this code which
makes EAL improvements harder.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jan Viktorin <viktorin@rehivetech.com>
Acked-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
2016-07-28 20:09:09 +02:00
Olivier Matz
2666b9e601 doc: announce ABI change for mbuf structure
For 16.11, the mbuf structure will be modified implying ABI breakage.
Some discussions already took place here:
http://www.dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/12878/

Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>
Acked-by: John Daley <johndale@cisco.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
2016-07-28 20:03:25 +02:00
Tomasz Kulasek
ad5fd43ba1 doc: announce ABI change for Tx preparation
This is an ABI deprecation notice for DPDK 16.11 in librte_ether about
changes in rte_eth_dev and rte_eth_desc_lim structures.

As discussed in that thread:

http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2015-September/023603.html

Different NIC models depending on HW offload requested might impose
different requirements on packets to be TX-ed in terms of:

 - Max number of fragments per packet allowed
 - Max number of fragments per TSO segments
 - The way pseudo-header checksum should be pre-calculated
 - L3/L4 header fields filling
 - etc.

MOTIVATION:
-----------

1) Some work cannot (and didn't should) be done in rte_eth_tx_burst.
   However, this work is sometimes required, and now, it's an
   application issue.

2) Different hardware may have different requirements for TX offloads,
   other subset can be supported and so on.

3) Some parameters (eg. number of segments in ixgbe driver) may hung
   device. These parameters may be vary for different devices.

   For example i40e HW allows 8 fragments per packet, but that is after
   TSO segmentation. While ixgbe has a 38-fragment pre-TSO limit.

4) Fields in packet may require different initialization (like eg. will
   require pseudo-header checksum precalculation, sometimes in a
   different way depending on packet type, and so on). Now application
   needs to care about it.

5) Using additional API (rte_eth_tx_prep) before rte_eth_tx_burst let to
   prepare packet burst in acceptable form for specific device.

6) Some additional checks may be done in debug mode keeping tx_burst
   implementation clean.

PROPOSAL:
---------

To help user to deal with all these varieties we propose to:

1. Introduce rte_eth_tx_prep() function to do necessary preparations of
   packet burst to be safely transmitted on device for desired HW
   offloads (set/reset checksum field according to the hardware
   requirements) and check HW constraints (number of segments per
   packet, etc).

   While the limitations and requirements may differ for devices, it
   requires to extend rte_eth_dev structure with new function pointer
   "tx_pkt_prep" which can be implemented in the driver to prepare and
   verify packets, in devices specific way, before burst, what should to
   prevent application to send malformed packets.

2. Also new fields will be introduced in rte_eth_desc_lim:
   nb_seg_max and nb_mtu_seg_max, providing an information about max
   segments in TSO and non-TSO packets acceptable by device.

   This information is useful for application to not create/limit
   malicious packet.

APPLICATION (CASE OF USE):
--------------------------

1) Application should to initialize burst of packets to send, set
   required tx offload flags and required fields, like l2_len, l3_len,
   l4_len, and tso_segsz

2) Application passes burst to the rte_eth_tx_prep to check conditions
   required to send packets through the NIC.

3) The result of rte_eth_tx_prep can be used to send valid packets
   and/or restore invalid if function fails.

eg.

	for (i = 0; i < nb_pkts; i++) {

		/* initialize or process packet */

		bufs[i]->tso_segsz = 800;
		bufs[i]->ol_flags = PKT_TX_TCP_SEG | PKT_TX_IPV4
				| PKT_TX_IP_CKSUM;
		bufs[i]->l2_len = sizeof(struct ether_hdr);
		bufs[i]->l3_len = sizeof(struct ipv4_hdr);
		bufs[i]->l4_len = sizeof(struct tcp_hdr);
	}

	/* Prepare burst of TX packets */
	nb_prep = rte_eth_tx_prep(port, 0, bufs, nb_pkts);

	if (nb_prep < nb_pkts) {
		printf("tx_prep failed\n");

		/* drop or restore invalid packets */

	}

	/* Send burst of TX packets */
	nb_tx = rte_eth_tx_burst(port, 0, bufs, nb_prep);

	/* Free any unsent packets. */

Signed-off-by: Tomasz Kulasek <tomaszx.kulasek@intel.com>
Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
2016-07-28 19:58:51 +02:00
Thomas Monjalon
6403420372 doc: announce renaming of ethdev library
The right name of ethdev should be dpdk_netdev. However:
1/ We are using rte_ prefix in the code and library names.
2/ The API uses rte_ethdev
That's why 16.11 will just have the rte_ prefix prepended to
the library filename as every other libraries.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Jan Viktorin <viktorin@rehivetech.com>
Acked-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>
2016-07-28 19:54:13 +02:00
Pablo de Lara
9013c56c64 doc: announce driver name changes
Driver names for all the supported devices in DPDK do not have
a naming convention. Some are using a prefix, some are not
and some have long names. Driver names are used when creating
virtual devices, so it is useful to have consistency in the names.

Signed-off-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
2016-07-28 19:53:23 +02:00
Rahul Lakkireddy
16695af340 doc: remove deprecation notice related to new flow types
Remove deprecation notice pertaining to introduction of new flow
types in favor of a more generic filtering infrastructure proposal.

Signed-off-by: Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Sanghvi <kumaras@chelsio.com>
2016-07-28 18:14:41 +02:00
Yulong Pei
65cc5a0397 doc: add tested hardware and systems for 16.07
Add new section on tested platforms and nics and OSes to the release notes.

Signed-off-by: Yulong Pei <yulong.pei@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2016-07-28 18:11:56 +02:00
John McNamara
676afde103 doc: improve wording of new features in 16.07
Improve the wording of some text in the "new features" section of
the release notes.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2016-07-28 18:11:56 +02:00
Olga Shern
13726648ea doc: update guide and release notes for mlx5
Signed-off-by: Olga Shern <olgas@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2016-07-28 18:11:56 +02:00
Shreyansh Jain
28de2f81cd doc: fix path to testpmd app
Signed-off-by: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2016-07-28 18:11:56 +02:00
Jeff Guo
a4045ab377 doc: add known issue for promiscuous mode in i40e VF
When use i40e linux kernel driver as host driver and DPDK handler the i40e
VF, the promiscuous mode doesn't work in i40e VF. It is not supported by
DPDK i40e VF driver right now.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Guo <jia.guo@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2016-07-28 18:11:56 +02:00
Thomas Monjalon
a5d7a3f77d unify tools naming
The following tools may be installed system-wide.
It may be cleaner and more convenient to find them with the same
dpdk- prefix (especially for autocompletion).
Moreover, the script dpdk_nic_bind.py deserves a new name because it is
not restricted to NICs and can be used for e.g. crypto.

These files are renamed:
pmdinfogen       -> dpdk-pmdinfogen
pmdinfo.py       -> dpdk-pmdinfo.py
dpdk_pdump       -> dpdk-pdump
dpdk_proc_info   -> dpdk-procinfo
dpdk_nic_bind.py -> dpdk-devbind.py
setup.sh         -> dpdk-setup.sh

The tools pmdinfogen, pmdinfo.py and dpdk_pdump are new in 16.07.

The scripts dpdk_nic_bind.py and setup.sh may have been used with
previous releases by end users. That's why a symbolic link still
provide the old name in the installed tools directory.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
2016-07-22 22:31:02 +02:00
John McNamara
4b677a3b60 doc: update sphinx installation instructions
Update the Sphinx installation instructions in the documentation
contributors guide to reflect the fact that in the 1.4+ versions
of Sphinx the ReadTheDocs theme must also be installed. Previously,
in version 1.3.x, it was installed by default.

Also change 'yum' to 'dnf' for package installations.

Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2016-07-22 19:59:54 +02:00
John McNamara
3ec02f9ce7 doc: fix sphinx highlighting warnings
Fix warnings raised by Python Sphinx 1.4.5:

    guides/sample_app_ug/ip_pipeline.rst:334:
    WARNING: Could not lex literal_block as "ini". Highlighting skipped.

    guides/sample_app_ug/l2_forward_real_virtual.rst:467:
    WARNING: Could not lex literal_block as "c". Highlighting skipped.

    guides/sample_app_ug/l3_forward.rst:293:
    WARNING: Could not lex literal_block as "c". Highlighting skipped.

    guides/sample_app_ug/vm_power_management.rst:162:
    WARNING: Could not lex literal_block as "xml". Highlighting skipped.

These warnings arise from invalid syntax in code-block directives.

Fixes: f1e779ec5b ("doc: update ip pipeline app guide")
Fixes: d0dff9ba44 ("doc: sample application user guide")
Fixes: c75f4e6a7a ("doc: add vm power mgmt app")

Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2016-07-22 19:59:54 +02:00
John McNamara
471797c061 doc: fix release notes for 16.07
Fix grammar, spelling and formatting of DPDK 16.07 release notes.

Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2016-07-22 19:59:49 +02:00
Pablo de Lara
6324e2b546 doc: add cryptodev shared library version to release notes
Signed-off-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
2016-07-22 19:58:10 +02:00
Jingjing Wu
7123fa5ae7 doc: add flow bifurcation howto on Linux
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>
2016-07-22 19:58:10 +02:00
Bernard Iremonger
931f3ca3fd doc: add VM live migration image
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>
2016-07-22 19:58:10 +02:00
Bernard Iremonger
6993fe1375 doc: add VM live migration howto with vhost-user
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>
2016-07-22 19:58:10 +02:00
Bernard Iremonger
155ec29933 doc: add VF live migration image
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>
2016-07-22 19:58:10 +02:00
Bernard Iremonger
206b6ba882 doc: add VF live migration howto with bonded virtio
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>
2016-07-22 19:58:10 +02:00
Mark Kavanagh
b428254342 doc: fix vhost setup in tep_termination guide
- Fix vhost setup flags
- Add minor edits to improve readability and consistency

Signed-off-by: Mark Kavanagh <mark.b.kavanagh@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2016-07-22 19:58:10 +02:00
Yuanhan Liu
f6ee75b542 doc: note a pitfall on vhost reconnect feature
The vhost feature negotiation only happens at virtio reset stage, say
when a virtio-net device is firstly initiated, or when DPDK virtio PMD
initiates. That means, if vhost APP restarts after the negotiation and
reconnects, the feature negotiation process will not be triggered again,
meaning the info is lost. To make reconnect work, QEMU simply saves
the negotiated features before the restart and restores it afterwards.

Therefore, the vhost supported features must be exactly the same before
and after the restart. For example, if TSO is disabled and then enabled,
nothing will work and undefined issues might happen.

Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2016-07-22 19:58:10 +02:00
John Daley
f079630304 doc: update release notes and guide for enic
Signed-off-by: John Daley <johndale@cisco.com>
2016-07-22 19:58:03 +02:00