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Diffstat (limited to 'doc/guides/linux_gsg')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guides/linux_gsg/enable_func.rst | 15 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst | 3 |
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/enable_func.rst b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/enable_func.rst index 076770f2..ec0e04d9 100644 --- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/enable_func.rst +++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/enable_func.rst @@ -186,21 +186,6 @@ Check with the local Intel's Network Division application engineers for firmware The base driver to support firmware version of FVL3E will be integrated in the next DPDK release, so currently the validated firmware version is 4.2.6. -Enabling Extended Tag -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -PCI configuration of ``extended_tag`` has big impact on small packet size -performance of 40G ports. Enabling ``extended_tag`` can help 40G port to -achieve the best performance, especially for small packet size. - -* Disabling/enabling ``extended_tag`` can be done in some BIOS implementations. - -* If BIOS does not enable it, and does not support changing it, tools - (e.g. ``setpci`` on Linux) can be used to enable or disable ``extended_tag``. - -* From release 16.04, ``extended_tag`` is enabled by default during port - initialization, users don't need to care about that anymore. - Use 16 Bytes RX Descriptor Size ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst index 959709e5..b3215448 100644 --- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst +++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst @@ -101,6 +101,9 @@ Compilation of the DPDK * libpcap headers and libraries (libpcap-devel) to compile and use the libpcap-based poll-mode driver. This driver is disabled by default and can be enabled by setting ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_PCAP=y`` in the build time config file. +* libarchive headers and library are needed for some unit tests using tar to get their resources. + + Running DPDK Applications ------------------------- |