From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga11.intel.com (mga11.intel.com [192.55.52.93]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 004721B1C3 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2018 09:20:02 +0100 (CET) X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from fmsmga003.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.29]) by fmsmga102.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 05 Jan 2018 00:20:02 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.46,317,1511856000"; d="scan'208";a="16971540" Received: from dpdk26.sh.intel.com ([10.67.110.152]) by FMSMGA003.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 05 Jan 2018 00:20:01 -0800 From: Wenzhuo Lu To: dev@dpdk.org Cc: Jingjing Wu Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 16:21:45 +0800 Message-Id: <1515140505-38655-16-git-send-email-wenzhuo.lu@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.9.3 In-Reply-To: <1515140505-38655-1-git-send-email-wenzhuo.lu@intel.com> References: <1511505206-97333-1-git-send-email-jingjing.wu@intel.com> <1515140505-38655-1-git-send-email-wenzhuo.lu@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 15/15] doc: update doc for avf driver X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2018 08:20:03 -0000 From: Jingjing Wu Signed-off-by: Jingjing Wu --- doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst | 16 ++++++++++++++-- doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst b/doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst index 1e83bf6..3adb684 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst @@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. -I40E/IXGBE/IGB Virtual Function Driver -====================================== +Intel Virtual Function Driver +============================= Supported Intel® Ethernet Controllers (see the *DPDK Release Notes* for details) support the following modes of operation in a virtualized environment: @@ -93,6 +93,18 @@ and the Physical Function operates on the global resources on behalf of the Virt For this out-of-band communication, an SR-IOV enabled NIC provides a memory buffer for each Virtual Function, which is called a "Mailbox". +Intel® Ethernet Adaptive Virtual Function +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +Adaptive Virtual Function (AVF) is a SR-IOV Virtual Function with the same device id (8086:1889) on different Intel Ethernet Controller. +AVF Driver is VF driver which supports for all future Intel devices without requiring a VM update. And since this happens to be an adaptive VF driver, +every new drop of the VF driver would add more and more advanced features that can be turned on in the VM if the underlying HW device supports those +advanced features based on a device agnostic way without ever compromising on the base functionality. AVF provides generic hardware interface and +interface between AVF driver and a compliant PF driver is specified. + +Intel products starting Ethernet Controller 710 Series to support Adaptive Virtual Function. + +The way to generate Virtual Function is like normal, and the resource of VF assignment depends on the NIC Infrastructure. + The PCIE host-interface of Intel Ethernet Switch FM10000 Series VF infrastructure ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst index 24b67bb..0672b0e 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst @@ -41,6 +41,22 @@ New Features Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin. ========================================================= + * **Add AVF (Adaptive Virtual Function) net PMD.** + + A new net PMD has been added, which supports Intel® Ethernet Adaptive + Virtual Function (AVF) with features list below: + + * Basic Rx/Tx burst + * SSE vectorized Rx/Tx burst + * Promiscuous mode + * MAC/VLAN offload + * Checksum offload + * TSO offload + * Jumbo frame and MTU setting + * RSS configuration + * stats + * Rx/Tx descriptor status + * Link status update/event API Changes ----------- -- 1.9.3