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Ferruh Yigit
315ee8374e doc: reduce initial offload API rework scope to drivers
Do ethdev new offloading API switch in two steps.

In v18.05 target is implementing the new ethdev-PMD offload interface,
which means converting all PMDs to new offloading API.

Next target is removing the old ethdev offload API.
It will effect applications and will force them to implement new
offloading API.

Fixes: 3004d34541 ("doc: update deprecation of ethdev offload API")

Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>
2018-04-15 15:12:27 +02:00
Jeff Guo
0d0f478d04 eal/linux: add uevent parse and process
In order to handle the uevent which has been detected from the kernel
side, add uevent parse and process function to translate the uevent into
device event, which user has subscribed to monitor.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Guo <jia.guo@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
2018-04-13 12:00:31 +02:00
Jeff Guo
a753e53d51 eal: add device event monitor framework
This patch aims to add a general device event monitor framework at
EAL device layer, for device hotplug awareness and actions adopted
accordingly. It could also expand for all other types of device event
monitor, but not in this scope at the stage.

To get started, users firstly call below new added APIs to enable/disable
the device event monitor mechanism:
  - rte_dev_event_monitor_start
  - rte_dev_event_monitor_stop

Then users shell register or unregister callbacks through the new added
APIs. Callbacks can be some device specific, or for all devices.
  -rte_dev_event_callback_register
  -rte_dev_event_callback_unregister

Use hotplug case for example, when device hotplug insertion or hotplug
removal, we will get notified from kernel, then call user's callbacks
accordingly to handle it, such as detach or attach the device from the
bus, and could benefit further fail-safe or live-migration.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Guo <jia.guo@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
2018-04-13 12:00:31 +02:00
Olivier Matz
d27a626187 mbuf: remove control mbuf
The rte_ctrlmbuf structure is not used by any example application
in dpdk. Remove it, as announced on the mailing list.

Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
2018-04-11 23:40:40 +02:00
Anatoly Burakov
66cc45e293 mem: replace memseg with memseg lists
Before, we were aggregating multiple pages into one memseg, so the
number of memsegs was small. Now, each page gets its own memseg,
so the list of memsegs is huge. To accommodate the new memseg list
size and to keep the under-the-hood workings sane, the memseg list
is now not just a single list, but multiple lists. To be precise,
each hugepage size available on the system gets one or more memseg
lists, per socket.

In order to support dynamic memory allocation, we reserve all
memory in advance (unless we're in 32-bit legacy mode, in which
case we do not preallocate memory). As in, we do an anonymous
mmap() of the entire maximum size of memory per hugepage size, per
socket (which is limited to either RTE_MAX_MEMSEG_PER_TYPE pages or
RTE_MAX_MEM_MB_PER_TYPE megabytes worth of memory, whichever is the
smaller one), split over multiple lists (which are limited to
either RTE_MAX_MEMSEG_PER_LIST memsegs or RTE_MAX_MEM_MB_PER_LIST
megabytes per list, whichever is the smaller one). There is also
a global limit of CONFIG_RTE_MAX_MEM_MB megabytes, which is mainly
used for 32-bit targets to limit amounts of preallocated memory,
but can be used to place an upper limit on total amount of VA
memory that can be allocated by DPDK application.

So, for each hugepage size, we get (by default) up to 128G worth
of memory, per socket, split into chunks of up to 32G in size.
The address space is claimed at the start, in eal_common_memory.c.
The actual page allocation code is in eal_memalloc.c (Linux-only),
and largely consists of copied EAL memory init code.

Pages in the list are also indexed by address. That is, in order
to figure out where the page belongs, one can simply look at base
address for a memseg list. Similarly, figuring out IOVA address
of a memzone is a matter of finding the right memseg list, getting
offset and dividing by page size to get the appropriate memseg.

This commit also removes rte_eal_dump_physmem_layout() call,
according to deprecation notice [1], and removes that deprecation
notice as well.

On 32-bit targets due to limited VA space, DPDK will no longer
spread memory to different sockets like before. Instead, it will
(by default) allocate all of the memory on socket where master
lcore is. To override this behavior, --socket-mem must be used.

The rest of the changes are really ripple effects from the memseg
change - heap changes, compile fixes, and rewrites to support
fbarray-backed memseg lists. Due to earlier switch to _walk()
functions, most of the changes are simple fixes, however some
of the _walk() calls were switched to memseg list walk, where
it made sense to do so.

Additionally, we are also switching locks from flock() to fcntl().
Down the line, we will be introducing single-file segments option,
and we cannot use flock() locks to lock parts of the file. Therefore,
we will use fcntl() locks for legacy mem as well, in case someone is
unfortunate enough to accidentally start legacy mem primary process
alongside an already working non-legacy mem-based primary process.

[1] http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/34002/

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Tested-by: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@caviumnetworks.com>
Tested-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Tested-by: Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan <gowrishankar.m@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-04-11 19:55:39 +02:00
Jasvinder Singh
d218a4d060 doc: add meter API change to release notes
Update the release notes with meter api change to support configuration
profiles.

Signed-off-by: Jasvinder Singh <jasvinder.singh@intel.com>
Acked-by: Cristian Dumitrescu <cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com>
2018-04-06 18:50:43 +02:00
Anatoly Burakov
952b207772 eal: provide API for querying valid socket ids
During lcore scan, find all socket ID's and store them, and
provide public API to query valid socket id's. This will break
the ABI, so bump ABI version.

Also, remove deprecation notice corresponding to this change.

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Acked-by: Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan <gowrishankar.m@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-04-05 00:27:13 +02:00
Pavan Nikhilesh
d8dd31652c common/octeontx: move mbox to common folder
Move commonly used functions across mempool, event and net devices to a
common folder in drivers.

Signed-off-by: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@caviumnetworks.com>
2018-04-04 23:14:52 +02:00
Jerin Jacob
8437489fa6 doc: update Marvell driver link
Change the incorrect driver documentation link to fix
following documentation build warning.

$ make doc-guides-html
sphinx processing guides-html...
doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst:58:
WARNING: unknown document: ../nics/mrvl

Fixes: fe93968722 ("net/mrvl: rename PMD as mvpp2")

Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>
2018-04-04 13:43:33 +02:00
Andrew Rybchenko
f3129efdb4 net/sfc: support Medford2 family adapters
Signed-off-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Moreton <amoreton@solarflare.com>
2018-03-30 14:08:44 +02:00
Kumar Sanghvi
011ebc236d net/cxgbe: add skeleton VF driver
Add minimal VF driver.  Declare functions common to both PF and VF
functionality in separate header file and import the header file.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Sanghvi <kumaras@chelsio.com>
Signed-off-by: Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com>
2018-03-30 14:08:44 +02:00
Ferruh Yigit
03d8f47100 ethdev: return named opaque type instead of void pointer
"struct rte_eth_rxtx_callback" is defined as internal data structure and
used as named opaque type.

So the functions that are adding callbacks can return objects in this
type instead of void pointer.

Also const qualifier added to "struct rte_eth_rxtx_callback *" to
protect it better from application modification.

Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
2018-03-30 14:08:44 +02:00
Ferruh Yigit
11c5d3411f ethdev: fix port id storage
port_id is now 16bits, update function parameter according.

Fixes: 4c270218aa ("ethdev: support security APIs")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
2018-03-30 14:08:44 +02:00
Roman Zhukov
58a1e5a17f net/sfc: support DROP action in flow API
Signed-off-by: Roman Zhukov <roman.zhukov@oktetlabs.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
2018-03-30 14:08:43 +02:00
Andrew Rybchenko
a6318264cd doc: add sfc flow API support for tunnels in release notes
Signed-off-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
2018-03-30 14:08:43 +02:00
Kumar Sanghvi
08e21af90d net/cxgbe: support updating RSS hash configuration and key
Add firmware API for updating RSS hash configuration and key.  Move
RSS hash configuration from cxgb4_write_rss() to a separate function
cxgbe_write_rss_conf().

Also, rename cxgb4_write_rss() to cxgbe_write_rss() for consistency.

Original work by Surendra Mobiya <surendra@chelsio.com>

Signed-off-by: Kumar Sanghvi <kumaras@chelsio.com>
Signed-off-by: Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com>
2018-03-30 14:08:43 +02:00
Kirill Rybalchenko
653e038efc ethdev: remove versioning of filter control function
In 18.02 release the ABI of ethdev component was changed.
To keep compatibility with previous versions of the library
the versioning of rte_eth_dev_filter_ctrl function was implemented.

As soon as deprecation note was issued in 18.02 release, there is
no need to keep compatibility with previous versions.
Remove the versioning of rte_eth_dev_filter_ctrl function.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Rybalchenko <kirill.rybalchenko@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
2018-03-30 14:08:43 +02:00
Cristian Dumitrescu
c06ddf9698 meter: add configuration profile
This patch adds support for meter configuration profiles.
Benefits: simplified configuration procedure, improved performance.

Q1: What is the configuration profile and why does it make sense?
A1: The configuration profile represents the set of configuration
    parameters for a given meter object, such as the rates and sizes for
    the token buckets. The configuration profile concept makes sense when
    many meter objects share the same configuration, which is the typical
    usage model: thousands of traffic flows are each individually metered
    according to just a few service levels (i.e. profiles).

Q2: How is the configuration profile improving the performance?
A2: The performance improvement is achieved by reducing the memory
    footprint of a meter object, which results in better cache utilization
    for the typical case when large arrays of meter objects are used. The
    internal data structures stored for each meter object contain:
       a) Constant fields: Low level translation of the configuration
          parameters that does not change post-configuration. This is
          really duplicated for all meters that use the same
          configuration. This is the configuration profile data that is
          moved away from the meter object. Current size (implementation
          dependent): srTCM = 32 bytes, trTCM = 32 bytes.
       b) Variable fields: Time stamps and running counters that change
          during the on-going traffic metering process. Current size
          (implementation dependent): srTCM = 24 bytes, trTCM = 32 bytes.
          Therefore, by moving the constant fields to a separate profile
          data structure shared by all the meters with the same
          configuration, the size of the meter object is reduced by ~50%.

Signed-off-by: Cristian Dumitrescu <cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jasvinder Singh <jasvinder.singh@intel.com>
2018-02-19 22:28:05 +01:00
John McNamara
8249acf424 doc: add template release notes for 18.05
Add template release notes for DPDK 18.05 with inline
comments and explanations of the various sections.

Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Acked-by: Erik Gabriel Carrillo <erik.g.carrillo@intel.com>
2018-02-19 21:54:14 +01:00
John McNamara
acf5c976bb doc: update release notes for 18.02
Fix grammar, spelling and formatting of DPDK 18.02 release notes.

Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2018-02-14 19:01:26 +01:00
Xiao Wang
7f012f707f doc: add virtio guest announce support to release notes
Signed-off-by: Xiao Wang <xiao.w.wang@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2018-02-14 18:58:47 +01:00
Raslan Darawsheh
d0d7ad6119 doc: add tested platforms with Mellanox NICs
Signed-off-by: Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@mellanox.com>
2018-02-14 18:52:31 +01:00
Ferruh Yigit
1d81d4f2a6 doc: announce ethdev API fix for port id size
Fix rte_eth_dev_get_sec_ctx() parameter port_id storage size,
from uint8_t to uint16_t.

Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Radu Nicolau <radu.nicolau@intel.com>
Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
2018-02-14 18:31:14 +01:00
Kirill Rybalchenko
bdc9bb9b62 doc: announce ethdev ABI change for filter structs
Signed-off-by: Kirill Rybalchenko <kirill.rybalchenko@intel.com>
Acked-by: Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
2018-02-14 18:30:22 +01:00
Ferruh Yigit
768ac8d452 doc: announce ethdev API changes for callbacks
Ethdev APIs to add callback return the callback object as "void *",
update return type to actual object type
"struct rte_eth_rxtx_callback *"

Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
2018-02-14 18:29:04 +01:00
Olivier Matz
16a7009aee doc: announce ethdev API change for default MAC
Announce internal PMD API change in the function to set the default MAC
address. The objective is to be able to notify errors occurring in the
PMD.

Link: https://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/32284/

Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
2018-02-14 18:27:41 +01:00
Shahaf Shuler
6790f48e66 doc: announce ethdev API change for VF representors
This is following the RFC being discussed and targets 18.05

http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2018-January/085716.html

Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Acked-by: Declan Doherty <declan.doherty@intel.com>
Acked-by: Remy Horton <remy.horton@intel.com>
Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@intl.att.com>
Acked-by: Alex Zelezniak <alexz@att.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
2018-02-14 18:27:41 +01:00
Shreyansh Jain
0ab44211c7 doc: announce ethdev API change for preferred burst size
rte_eth_rx_burst(..,nb_pkts) function has semantic that if return value
is smaller than requested, application can consider it end of packet
stream. Some hardware can only support smaller burst sizes which need
to be advertised. Similar is the case for Tx burst.

This patch adds deprecation notice for rte_eth_dev_info structure as
new members, for preferred Rx and Tx burst and ring size would be
added - impacting the size of the structure.

Signed-off-by: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>
Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Zhiyong Yang <zhiyong.yang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
2018-02-14 18:27:41 +01:00
Xueming Li
676b605182 doc: announce ethdev API change for RSS configuration
Update deprecation notice for the new rss_level field of
rte_eth_rss_conf.

Link: http://www.dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/31891

Signed-off-by: Xueming Li <xuemingl@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
2018-02-14 18:27:41 +01:00
Cristian Dumitrescu
a098c4702c doc: announce mbuf sched field change
Signed-off-by: Cristian Dumitrescu <cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jasvinder Singh <jasvinder.singh@intel.com>
Acked-by: Fan Zhang <roy.fan.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Laatz <kevin.laatz@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
2018-02-14 18:27:36 +01:00
Olivier Matz
d555d46d0a doc: announce control mbuf removal
Link: http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-July/069813.html
Link: http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/32041/

Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Cristian Dumitrescu <cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
2018-02-14 16:36:44 +01:00
Andrew Rybchenko
c96caf64c2 doc: announce mempool API changes
An API/ABI changes are planned for 18.05 [1]:

 * Allow to customize how mempool objects are stored in memory.
 * Deprecate mempool XMEM API.
 * Add mempool driver ops to get information from mempool driver and
   dequeue contiguous blocks of objects if driver supports it.

[1] http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2018-January/088698.html

Signed-off-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
2018-02-14 16:32:00 +01:00
Hemant Agrawal
74915174b4 doc: announce EAL function removal for default mempool
Signed-off-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
2018-02-14 16:32:00 +01:00
Anatoly Burakov
01dad51115 doc: announce memory hotplug changes
Due to coming changes outlined in memory hotplug RFC, there will
be several API/ABI changes.

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Jonas Pfefferle <pepperjo@japf.ch>
Acked-by: Yongseok Koh <yskoh@mellanox.com>
2018-02-14 16:32:00 +01:00
Anatoly Burakov
12639dcc05 doc: announce EAL ABI change for NUMA node count
There will be a new function added in v18.05 that will return
number of detected sockets, which will change the ABI.

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jonas Pfefferle <pepperjo@japf.ch>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
2018-02-14 16:32:00 +01:00
Erik Gabriel Carrillo
064518f68d doc: announce EAL API change to lcore role function
This an API/ABI change notice for DPDK 18.05 announcing a change in
the meaning of the return values of the rte_lcore_has_role() function.

Signed-off-by: Erik Gabriel Carrillo <erik.g.carrillo@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
Acked-by: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
2018-02-14 16:32:00 +01:00
Gaetan Rivet
66226f28e1 doc: update deprecation notice for devargs
The declaration and identification of devices will change in v18.05.

Remove the precedent deprecation notice.

Add new one reflecting the planned changes more accurately,
updated for v18.05.

Signed-off-by: Gaetan Rivet <gaetan.rivet@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>
Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
2018-02-14 16:32:00 +01:00
Jiayu Hu
b18ec9a03a doc: add vhost live migration features to release notes
Signed-off-by: Jiayu Hu <jiayu.hu@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2018-02-14 00:10:58 +01:00
Jiayu Hu
cef5d0a474 doc: add VxLAN GRO to release notes
Signed-off-by: Jiayu Hu <jiayu.hu@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2018-02-14 00:08:31 +01:00
Yulong Pei
b8f0742394 doc: add tested Intel platforms with Intel NICs
Add tested Intel platforms with Intel NICs to the release note.

Signed-off-by: Yulong Pei <yulong.pei@intel.com>
2018-02-08 23:18:13 +01:00
John McNamara
5ae9d5299a doc: add increased default ring size to release notes
Added note on the increased ring size in testpmd and the sample
applications to the release note.

Fixes: bd8f10f6d6 ("app/testpmd: increase default ring sizes to 1024")
Fixes: 867a6c66ec ("examples: increase default ring sizes to 1024")

Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
2018-02-08 23:11:28 +01:00
Shahaf Shuler
282da936f9 net/mlx5: revert support of IPv4 time-to-live filter
Neither upstream kernel nor MLNX_OFED support such filter.
There is no point announcing this feature.

Reverts commit 0fb2c9842b ("net/mlx5: support IPv4 time-to-live filter")

Fixes: 0fb2c9842b ("net/mlx5: support IPv4 time-to-live filter")

Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>
2018-02-08 18:42:14 +01:00
Ferruh Yigit
5630257fcc doc: convert Intel license headers to SPDX tags
Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
2018-02-06 23:27:08 +01:00
Shreyansh Jain
4ce5b14ac9 doc: fix release note for rawdev library
'+' sign was missing from librawdev library which is added
in this release.

Fixes: a9bb0c44c7 ("doc: add rawdev library guide and doxygen page")

Signed-off-by: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>
Acked-by: Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>
2018-02-06 17:35:53 +01:00
Shahaf Shuler
cd5cc12dd6 doc: update mlx PMD release notes
Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
2018-02-05 19:56:04 +01:00
Shreyansh Jain
a9bb0c44c7 doc: add rawdev library guide and doxygen page
Signed-off-by: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>
2018-01-31 15:42:58 +01:00
Bruce Richardson
69faa6907c doc: add meson build to release notes
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2018-01-30 21:59:00 +01:00
Jianfeng Tan
783b6e5497 eal: add synchronous multi-process communication
We need the synchronous way for multi-process communication,
i.e., blockingly waiting for reply message when we send a request
to the peer process.

We add two APIs rte_eal_mp_request() and rte_eal_mp_reply() for
such use case. By invoking rte_eal_mp_request(), a request message
is sent out, and then it waits there for a reply message. The caller
can specify the timeout. And the response messages will be collected
and returned so that the caller can decide how to translate them.

The API rte_eal_mp_reply() is always called by an mp action handler.
Here we add another parameter for rte_eal_mp_t so that the action
handler knows which peer address to reply.

       sender-process                receiver-process
   ----------------------            ----------------

    thread-n
     |_rte_eal_mp_request() ----------> mp-thread
        |_timedwait()                    |_process_msg()
                                           |_action()
                                               |_rte_eal_mp_reply()
	        mp_thread  <---------------------|
                  |_process_msg()
                     |_signal(send_thread)
    thread-m <----------|
     |_collect-reply

 * A secondary process is only allowed to talk to the primary process.
 * If there are multiple secondary processes for the primary process,
   it will send request to peer1, collect response from peer1; then
   send request to peer2, collect response from peer2, and so on.
 * When thread-n is sending request, thread-m of that process can send
   request at the same time.
 * For pair <action_name, peer>, we guarantee that only one such request
   is on the fly.

Suggested-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Suggested-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>
2018-01-30 15:17:23 +01:00
Jianfeng Tan
bacaa27540 eal: add channel for multi-process communication
Previouly, there are three channels for multi-process
(i.e., primary/secondary) communication.
  1. Config-file based channel, in which, the primary process writes
     info into a pre-defined config file, and the secondary process
     reads the info out.
  2. vfio submodule has its own channel based on unix socket for the
     secondary process to get container fd and group fd from the
     primary process.
  3. pdump submodule also has its own channel based on unix socket for
     packet dump.

It'd be good to have a generic communication channel for multi-process
communication to accommodate the requirements including:
  a. Secondary wants to send info to primary, for example, secondary
     would like to send request (about some specific vdev to primary).
  b. Sending info at any time, instead of just initialization time.
  c. Share FDs with the other side, for vdev like vhost, related FDs
     (memory region, kick) should be shared.
  d. A send message request needs the other side to response immediately.

This patch proposes to create a communication channel, based on datagram
unix socket, for above requirements. Each process will block on a unix
socket waiting for messages from the peers.

Three new APIs are added:

  1. rte_eal_mp_action_register() is used to register an action,
     indexed by a string, when a component at receiver side would like
     to response the messages from the peer processe.
  2. rte_eal_mp_action_unregister() is used to unregister the action
     if the calling component does not want to response the messages.
  3. rte_eal_mp_sendmsg() is used to send a message, and returns
     immediately. If there are n secondary processes, the primary
     process will send n messages.

Suggested-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>
2018-01-30 15:09:42 +01:00
Wei Zhao
db449ae8da doc: add i40e queue region support to release notes
This patch adds information about i40e queue region related to
the release notes.

Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Wei Zhao <wei.zhao1@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2018-01-29 10:04:28 +01:00