diff options
author | Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com> | 2018-04-23 14:20:17 +0100 |
---|---|---|
committer | Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com> | 2018-04-24 08:23:10 +0100 |
commit | 5076209fa6f4affdf93f4d2f23f51a427f64f72b (patch) | |
tree | 2dd6d71d781670133d79938ba6a3c27163e82306 /doc/guides/nics | |
parent | 68f5e9d7d40c36c6ea398953af7e56519928ea78 (diff) | |
parent | 18af4227fa5eee002b1a79207935620f6112803e (diff) |
Merge branch 'upstream-16.11-stable' into 16.11.x
Change-Id: Ie0b10377bb151ddac6307982be5b15624206e6a6
Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/guides/nics')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/guides/nics/features/i40e.ini | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/guides/nics/features/i40e_vec.ini | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/guides/nics/i40e.rst | 27 |
3 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/features/i40e.ini b/doc/guides/nics/features/i40e.ini index 0d143bca..36ac337e 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/features/i40e.ini +++ b/doc/guides/nics/features/i40e.ini @@ -46,3 +46,4 @@ Linux VFIO = Y x86-32 = Y x86-64 = Y ARMv8 = Y +Power8 = Y diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/features/i40e_vec.ini b/doc/guides/nics/features/i40e_vec.ini index edd6b717..5ec4088c 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/features/i40e_vec.ini +++ b/doc/guides/nics/features/i40e_vec.ini @@ -38,3 +38,4 @@ Linux VFIO = Y x86-32 = Y x86-64 = Y ARMv8 = Y +Power8 = Y diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/i40e.rst b/doc/guides/nics/i40e.rst index 5780268f..556b55fe 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/i40e.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/i40e.rst @@ -130,6 +130,21 @@ Please note that enabling debugging options may affect system performance. Interrupt Throttling interval. +Runtime Config Options +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +- ``Support multiple driver`` (default ``disable``) + + There was a multiple driver support issue during use of 700 series Ethernet + Adapter with both Linux kernel and DPDK PMD. To fix this issue, ``devargs`` + parameter ``support-multi-driver`` is introduced, for example:: + + -w 84:00.0,support-multi-driver=1 + + With the above configuration, DPDK PMD will not change global registers, and + will switch PF interrupt from IntN to Int0 to avoid interrupt conflict between + DPDK and Linux Kernel. + Driver Compilation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -459,3 +474,15 @@ Receive packets with Ethertype 0x88A8 Due to the FW limitation, PF can receive packets with Ethertype 0x88A8 only when floating VEB is disabled. + +Global configuration warning +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +I40E PMD will set some global registers to enable some function or set some +configure. Then when using different ports of the same NIC with Linux kernel +and DPDK, the port with Linux kernel will be impacted by the port with DPDK. +For example, register I40E_GL_SWT_L2TAGCTRL is used to control L2 tag, i40e +PMD uses I40E_GL_SWT_L2TAGCTRL to set vlan TPID. If setting TPID in port A +with DPDK, then the configuration will also impact port B in the NIC with +kernel driver, which don't want to use the TPID. +So PMD reports warning to clarify what is changed by writing global register. |