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| author |   Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com> | 2018-08-14 18:55:37 +0100 |
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| committer | Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com> | 2018-08-14 18:57:39 +0100 |
| commit | ae1479de3027a4a0f68d90bf65ac6ff2b862b837 (patch) | |
| tree | 5dbca675b6717b6b61abbe1a9583d5166fed942b /doc/guides/nics/virtio.rst | |
| parent | 8cee230dd1f0f9f31f4b0339c671d0b1ee14e111 (diff) | |
| parent | b63264c8342e6a1b6971c79550d2af2024b6a4de (diff) | |
Merge branch 'upstream' into 18.08.x
Change-Id: Ifbda2d554199dd4d11e01f0090881b5f0103ae12
Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/guides/nics/virtio.rst')
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diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/virtio.rst b/doc/guides/nics/virtio.rst index a42d1bb3..7c099fb7 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/virtio.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/virtio.rst @@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ The packet transmission flow is: Virtio PMD Rx/Tx Callbacks -------------------------- -Virtio driver has 3 Rx callbacks and 2 Tx callbacks. +Virtio driver has 4 Rx callbacks and 3 Tx callbacks. Rx callbacks: @@ -215,6 +215,9 @@ Rx callbacks: Vector version without mergeable Rx buffer support, also fixes the available ring indexes and uses vector instructions to optimize performance. +#. ``virtio_recv_mergeable_pkts_inorder``: + In-order version with mergeable Rx buffer support. + Tx callbacks: #. ``virtio_xmit_pkts``: @@ -223,6 +226,8 @@ Tx callbacks: #. ``virtio_xmit_pkts_simple``: Vector version fixes the available ring indexes to optimize performance. +#. ``virtio_xmit_pkts_inorder``: + In-order version. By default, the non-vector callbacks are used: @@ -254,6 +259,12 @@ Example of using the vector version of the virtio poll mode driver in testpmd -l 0-2 -n 4 -- -i --tx-offloads=0x0 --rxq=1 --txq=1 --nb-cores=1 +In-order callbacks only work on simulated virtio user vdev. + +* For Rx: If mergeable Rx buffers is enabled and in-order is enabled then + ``virtio_xmit_pkts_inorder`` is used. + +* For Tx: If in-order is enabled then ``virtio_xmit_pkts_inorder`` is used. Interrupt mode -------------- @@ -331,3 +342,13 @@ The user can specify below argument in devargs. driver, and works as a HW vhost backend. This argument is used to specify a virtio device needs to work in vDPA mode. (Default: 0 (disabled)) + +#. ``mrg_rxbuf``: + + It is used to enable virtio device mergeable Rx buffer feature. + (Default: 1 (enabled)) + +#. ``in_order``: + + It is used to enable virtio device in-order feature. + (Default: 1 (enabled)) |