From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mails.dpdk.org (mails.dpdk.org [217.70.189.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BA3BA0547; Thu, 9 Sep 2021 20:08:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 356A641141; Thu, 9 Sep 2021 20:08:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mga09.intel.com (mga09.intel.com [134.134.136.24]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A0EE40041 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 2021 20:08:21 +0200 (CEST) X-IPAS-Result: =?us-ascii?q?A2EkAwDmTDph/x0Y/QpagmKDIoFClVKcDhSBLDwLAQEBA?= =?us-ascii?q?QEBAQEBCTcKBAEBAwSEJ0UCgkAmNAkOAQIEAQEBAQMCAwEBAQEBAQMBAQEFA?= =?us-ascii?q?QEBAQEBBQIBAQEBAoEghS85DYI1InxKCTUBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBA?= =?us-ascii?q?QEBAQEBEAINUkcgBjIBRhBRSQENGYJxAYMWrkcagmCBAogUgV0GgTqJB12EG?= =?us-ascii?q?DeBVUSEfYJLFwEDGIEIFBBnhQwiBIdfgQ8HIgKBIHQpkXuCfIt0nHItB4Mug?= =?us-ascii?q?TEGC4h+lAUaMYNmox+YOoomlE6ERoFhghUzGiODOVEZD5IShRSFalQCNgIGC?= =?us-ascii?q?wEBAwmOQYI2AQE?= IronPort-PHdr: A9a23:1lJi+hyX4VNu7PrXCzLZylBlVkEcU1XcAAcZ59Idhq5Udez7ptK+Z hSZvK48xw6VFazgqNt8w9LMtK7hXWFSqb2gi1slNKJ2ahkelM8NlBYhCsPWQWfyLfrtcjBoV J8aDAwt8H60K1VaF9jjbFPOvHKy8SQSGhLiPgZpO+j5AIHfg9qr2+yo5pHebQFFiDW5bL59M R67sRjfus4KjIV4N60/0AHJonxGe+RXwWNnO1eelAvi68mz4ZBu7T1et+ou+MBcX6r6eb84T aFDAzQ9L281/szrugLdQgaJ+3ART38ZkhtMAwjC8RH6QpL8uTb0u+ZhxCWXO9D9QLYpUjqg8 qhrUgflhicZOTAk/m/Zict+g6BVoB2uqBJy2JLYbYKPOfZiZK7RYc8WSGxcVchRTSxBBYa8Y pMVAeUbOeZYq5Pyp0UPrRCjAAejHv7gxSVNhnTr2qA6y/4uEQXC3AM6AdIOsW7YrNbvO6gPS ++1ybLFzTTFb/NKxzj97JLEfQwmofGJRL99d9faxkYzGQ3flFqQtZDlMC2P1uQLq2WX8fRsW OyhhWAntQx8ozmiy9owh4TKmo4YyEzI+CF2zYsrJdC2R1J2bcKgHZVQqiyXNI97Tt4mTmxnp So3y6EKtJimdyYEz5QnwgTQa/2Bc4WQ4xLjUvqRLil8hH5/ZL2/gBOy/VC9xe3kS8a000xGr i1fktnDsH0Gyh/d6tCfR/dg4kutwyiD2gDd5+1eP0w5mrDXJ4Alz7M2i5Edq17MHjXsl0Xzl KKWc0Ik9fW25On/ebXmo4OcN5dzigHjLqQigsy/Dvo8MggJR2WV+eOy2qDk80P4XLhGkuE6n 6fDvJDUIMQXvK+5AwlJ0ok97xazFSup0NMdnXUfLVJFfgyIj5TxNl3TPPz0F+mzjlSinTtx2 fzLMaftDovJI3TblbfuZ7d960pSyAopytBf4opZCqkbL/L3Xk/+rsLYDh4jPwy32enoFc9y1 oYFVGKOBK+ZLL3dsVuS6u0zJOmMYZcZuCzhJPg9+/7ukXg5lEcAcqa3w5sac223Hux7LEWae 3bshc0BEWhZ9jY5GeDnlnWOSTJQIXGoUPES/DY+XbqvCYPKWIHlo7WN1SLzSoVfYmRPFFHKE n7kfoCsWvEQZSbUKchkxG9XHYO9QpMsgEn9/DTxzKBqe7K8xw== IronPort-HdrOrdr: A9a23:Qul+ua7trc3oloUr8QPXwMvXdLJyesId70hD6qm+c3Jom6uj5q aTdZsgtSMc5Ax8ZJhko6HkBEDiewK6yXcK2/hzAV7KZmCP1VdAbrsSibcKqAeAJ8SRzIFgPO BbGJSWDuebMbEDt7eZ3DWF X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6200,9189,10102"; a="220896609" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.85,281,1624345200"; d="scan'208";a="220896609" Received: from fmsmga003.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.29]) by orsmga102.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 09 Sep 2021 11:08:19 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.85,281,1624345200"; d="scan'208";a="539803615" Received: from win-kgkr85lv27f.jf.intel.com (HELO localhost.localdomain) ([10.166.188.124]) by FMSMGA003.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 09 Sep 2021 11:08:18 -0700 From: Pallavi Kadam To: dev@dpdk.org Cc: thomas@monjalon.net, qi.z.zhang@intel.com, -fady@mellanox.com, dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com, jingjing.wu@intel.com, beilei.xing@intel.com, ranjit.menon@intel.com, shivanshu.shukla@intel.com, pallavi.kadam@intel.com Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2021 13:05:33 -0700 Message-Id: <20210909200533.3747-4-pallavi.kadam@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.31.1.windows.1 In-Reply-To: <20210909200533.3747-1-pallavi.kadam@intel.com> References: <20210528230838.10620-1-pallavi.kadam@intel.com> <20210909200533.3747-1-pallavi.kadam@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/3] doc: update iavf PMD and 21.11 release notes X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Add documentation to support iavf PMD on Windows. Update the release notes for the same. Signed-off-by: Pallavi Kadam Reviewed-by: Ranjit Menon --- doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst | 17 +++++++++++++++++ doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst b/doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst index fcea8151bf..27f8b5093e 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst @@ -616,3 +616,20 @@ which belongs to the destination VF on the VM. .. figure:: img/inter_vm_comms.* Inter-VM Communication + + +Windows Support +--------------- + +* IAVF PMD currently is supported only inside Windows guest created on Linux host. + +* Physical PCI resources are exposed as virtual functions into Windows VM using SR-IOV pass through feature. + +* Create a Windows guest on Linux host using KVM hypervisor. Refer to the steps mentioned in the above section "Setting Up a KVM Virtual Machine monitor" + +* In the Host machine, download and install the kernel Ethernet driver from: `https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download-center/home.html?agr=Y&DwnldID=14687`. + +* For Windows guest, install NetUIO driver in place of existing built-in(inbox) Virtual Function driver. + +* To load NetUIO driver, follow the steps mentioned in `dpdk-kmods repository + `_. diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst index 675b573834..f5ae66a0ef 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst @@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ New Features * Added bus-level parsing of the devargs syntax. * Kept compatibility with the legacy syntax as parsing fallback. +* **Updated Intel iavf driver.** + + * Added Intel iavf support on Windows. + Removed Items ------------- -- 2.31.1.windows.1