numam-dpdk/drivers/common/iavf/README
Qi Zhang 691ad36245 common/iavf: support VF with more than 16 queues
Currently there are limitations in the virthcnl.h interface that only
allow a maximum of 16 queues to be used by a VF driver. Add support in
virtchnl.h to allow a VF driver to request >16 queues. Also, the RSS
qregion size is currently assumed to be the max number of queues a VF
can request and/or is given on initialization. With larger VFs this
assumption can no longer be made, so add a new op to support querying
the max RSS qregion size.

In order to request more queues than the initially given queues the VF
driver needs to use the VIRTCHNL_OP_REQUEST_QUEUES opcode.

The VF is given more >16 queues it should use the new
VIRTCHNL_OP_GET_MAX_RSS_QREGION to determine its max qregion size. This
is needed to correctly configure the RSS LUT and/or configure filters
based on queue base/offset and queue region size.

If the VF is configuring >16 queues it should use the following opcodes
to configure the qeueus and interrupts after successfully requesting
them.

VIRTCHNL_OP_MAP_QUEUE_VECTOR
VIRTCHNL_OP_ENABLE_QUEUES_V2
VIRTCHNL_OP_DISABLE_QUEUES_V2

Also, add support in virtchnl_vc_validate_vf_msg() to validate the above
messages. As a part of this move the virtchnl_vector_limits enumeration
directly above the function it's used.

The patch also update base code release version in readme.

Signed-off-by: Ting Xu <ting.xu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Brett Creeley <brett.creeley@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Beilei Xing <beilei.xing@intel.com>
2020-10-16 19:48:19 +02:00

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/* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
* Copyright(c) 2019-2020 Intel Corporation
*/
Intel® IAVF driver
=================
This directory contains source code of FreeBSD IAVF driver of version
cid-avf.2020.10.14.tar.gz released by the team which develops
basic drivers for any IAVF NIC. The directory of base/ contains the
original source package.
Updating the driver
===================
NOTE: The source code in this directory should not be modified apart from
the following file(s):
iavf_osdep.h
iavf_impl.c