The i40evf PMD will be deprecated, iavf will be the only VF driver for
Intel 700 serial (i40e) NIC family.
To reach this, there will be 2 steps:
Step 1: iavf will be the default VF driver, while i40evf still can be
selected by devarg: "driver=i40evf".
This is covered by this patch, which include:
1) add all 700 serial NIC VF device ID into iavf PMD
2) skip probe if devargs contain "driver=i40evf" in iavf
3) continue probe if devargs contain "driver=i40evf" in i40evf
Step 2: i40evf and related devarg are removed, this will happen at DPDK
21.11
Between step 1 and step 2, no new feature will be added into i40evf
except bug fix.
Signed-off-by: Robin Zhang <robinx.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Beilei Xing <beilei.xing@intel.com>
Enable metadata extraction for flexible descriptors in AVF, that would
allow network function directly get metadata without additional parsing
which would reduce the CPU cost for VFs. The enabling metadata
extractions involve the metadata of VLAN/IPv4/IPv6/IPv6-FLOW/TCP/MPLS
flexible descriptors, and the VF could negotiate the capability of
the flexible descriptor with PF and correspondingly configure the
specific offload at receiving queues.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Guo <jia.guo@intel.com>
Acked-by: Haiyue Wang <haiyue.wang@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>
Reviewed-by: Igor Russkikh <irusskikh@marvell.com>
Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Harman Kalra <hkalra@marvell.com>
Acked-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
Acked-by: Hyong Youb Kim <hyonkim@cisco.com>
Rather than using linuxapp and bsdapp everywhere, we can change things to
use the, more readable, terms "linux" and "freebsd" in our build configs.
Rather than renaming the configs we can just duplicate the existing ones
with the new names using symlinks, and use the new names exclusively
internally. ["make showconfigs" also only shows the new names to keep the
list short] The result is that backward compatibility is kept fully but any
new builds or development can be done using the newer names, i.e. both
"make config T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc" and "T=x86_64-native-linux-gcc"
work.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
This is the main patch which renames the macros, functions,
structs and any remaining strings in the iavf code.
Signed-off-by: Leyi Rong <leyi.rong@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
This patch corrects the description on Physical and Virtual Function
Infrastructure of Intel NICs. The RSS part description should belong
to ixgbe but not i40e.
This patch also add more notes to describe the queue number on Intel
X710/XL710 NICs.
Fixes: b9fcaeec5fc0 ("doc: add ixgbe VF RSS guide")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Jingjing Wu <jingjing.wu@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
The coremask option in DPDK is difficult to use and we should be
promoting the use of the corelist (-l) option. The patch
adjusts the docs to use -l EAL option instead of the -c option.
The patch only changes the docs and not the code as the -c option
will continue to exist unless it is removed in the future. The -c
option should be kept to maintain backward compatibility.
Signed-off-by: Keith Wiles <keith.wiles@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
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>
It was requested by Intel, more than one year ago, to replace the name
"Intel DPDK" by "DPDK".
Some references to the old name were still in some docs and code comments,
leading to confusion.
Fixes: ac8ada004c12 ("doc: remove Intel references from release notes")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
This change adds automatic figure references to the docs. The
figure numbers in the generated Html and PDF docs are now
automatically numbered based on section.
Requires Sphinx >= 1.3.1.
The patch makes the following changes.
* Changes image:: tag to figure:: and moves image caption
to the figure.
* Adds captions to figures that didn't previously have any.
* Un-templates the |image-name| substitution definitions
into explicit figure:: tags. They weren't used more
than once anyway and Sphinx doesn't support them
for figure.
* Adds a target to each image that didn't previously
have one so that they can be cross-referenced.
* Renamed existing image target to match the image
name for consistency.
* Replaces the Figures lists with automatic :numref:
:ref: entries to generate automatic numbering
and captions.
* Replaces "Figure" references with automatic :numref:
references.
Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Create nics guide by moving chapters about Intel and Mellanox NICs.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Siobhan Butler <siobhan.a.butler@intel.com>
