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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
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Copyright(c) 2017 Cavium, Inc
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OCTEON TX SSOVF Eventdev Driver
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===============================
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The OCTEON TX SSOVF PMD (**librte_pmd_octeontx_ssovf**) provides poll mode
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eventdev driver support for the inbuilt event device found in the **Cavium OCTEON TX**
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SoC family as well as their virtual functions (VF) in SR-IOV context.
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More information can be found at `Cavium, Inc Official Website
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<http://www.cavium.com/OCTEON-TX_ARM_Processors.html>`_.
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Features
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--------
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Features of the OCTEON TX SSOVF PMD are:
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- 64 Event queues
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- 32 Event ports
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- HW event scheduler
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- Supports 1M flows per event queue
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- Flow based event pipelining
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- Flow pinning support in flow based event pipelining
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- Queue based event pipelining
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- Supports ATOMIC, ORDERED, PARALLEL schedule types per flow
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- Event scheduling QoS based on event queue priority
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- Open system with configurable amount of outstanding events
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- HW accelerated dequeue timeout support to enable power management
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- SR-IOV VF
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- HW managed event timers support through TIMVF, with high precision and
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time granularity of 1us.
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- Up to 64 event timer adapters.
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Supported OCTEON TX SoCs
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- CN83xx
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Prerequisites
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-------------
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See :doc:`../platform/octeontx` for setup information.
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Pre-Installation Configuration
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------------------------------
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Config File Options
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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The following options can be modified in the ``config`` file.
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Please note that enabling debugging options may affect system performance.
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- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_OCTEONTX_SSOVF`` (default ``y``)
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Toggle compilation of the ``librte_pmd_octeontx_ssovf`` driver.
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Driver Compilation
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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To compile the OCTEON TX SSOVF PMD for Linux arm64 gcc target, run the
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following ``make`` command:
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.. code-block:: console
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cd <DPDK-source-directory>
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make config T=arm64-thunderx-linux-gcc install
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Initialization
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--------------
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The OCTEON TX eventdev is exposed as a vdev device which consists of a set
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of SSO group and work-slot PCIe VF devices. On EAL initialization,
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SSO PCIe VF devices will be probed and then the vdev device can be created
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from the application code, or from the EAL command line based on
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the number of probed/bound SSO PCIe VF device to DPDK by
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* Invoking ``rte_vdev_init("event_octeontx")`` from the application
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* Using ``--vdev="event_octeontx"`` in the EAL options, which will call
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rte_vdev_init() internally
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Example:
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.. code-block:: console
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./your_eventdev_application --vdev="event_octeontx"
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Selftest
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--------
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The functionality of OCTEON TX eventdev can be verified using this option,
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various unit and functional tests are run to verify the sanity.
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The tests are run once the vdev creation is successfully complete.
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.. code-block:: console
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--vdev="event_octeontx,selftest=1"
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Enable TIMvf stats
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TIMvf stats can be enabled by using this option, by default the stats are
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disabled.
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.. code-block:: console
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--vdev="event_octeontx,timvf_stats=1"
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Limitations
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Burst mode support
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Burst mode is not supported. Dequeue and Enqueue functions accepts only single
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event at a time.
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Rx adapter support
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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When eth_octeontx is used as Rx adapter event schedule type
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``RTE_SCHED_TYPE_PARALLEL`` is not supported.
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Event timer adapter support
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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When timvf is used as Event timer adapter the clock source mapping is as
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follows:
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.. code-block:: console
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RTE_EVENT_TIMER_ADAPTER_CPU_CLK = TIM_CLK_SRC_SCLK
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RTE_EVENT_TIMER_ADAPTER_EXT_CLK0 = TIM_CLK_SRC_GPIO
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RTE_EVENT_TIMER_ADAPTER_EXT_CLK1 = TIM_CLK_SRC_GTI
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RTE_EVENT_TIMER_ADAPTER_EXT_CLK2 = TIM_CLK_SRC_PTP
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When timvf is used as Event timer adapter event schedule type
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``RTE_SCHED_TYPE_PARALLEL`` is not supported.
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