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author | Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com> | 2017-11-08 14:15:11 +0000 |
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committer | Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com> | 2017-11-08 14:45:54 +0000 |
commit | 055c52583a2794da8ba1e85a48cce3832372b12f (patch) | |
tree | 8ceb1cb78fbb46a0f341f8ee24feb3c6b5540013 /doc/guides/nics/fm10k.rst | |
parent | f239aed5e674965691846e8ce3f187dd47523689 (diff) |
New upstream version 17.11-rc3
Change-Id: I6a5baa40612fe0c20f30b5fa773a6cbbac63a685
Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/fm10k.rst b/doc/guides/nics/fm10k.rst index 7fc48624..b47fc0db 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/fm10k.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/fm10k.rst @@ -161,6 +161,17 @@ FM10000 PMD driver. The switch driver can be acquired from Intel support. Only Testpoint is validated with DPDK, the latest version that has been validated with DPDK is 4.1.6. +Support for Switch Restart +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +For FM10000 multi host based design a DPDK app running in the VM or host needs +to be aware of the switch's state since it may undergo a quit-restart. When +the switch goes down the DPDK app will receive a LSC event indicating link +status down, and the app should stop the worker threads that are polling on +the Rx/Tx queues. When switch comes up, a LSC event indicating ``LINK_UP`` is +sent to the app, which can then restart the FM10000 port to resume network +processing. + CRC striping ~~~~~~~~~~~~ |