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 3CC83A0547; Thu, 9 Sep 2021 23:27:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EE1E41137; Thu, 9 Sep 2021 23:27:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mga01.intel.com (mga01.intel.com [192.55.52.88]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA93A4003E for ; Thu, 9 Sep 2021 23:26:57 +0200 (CEST) X-IPAS-Result: =?us-ascii?q?A2EjAwDoejph/0HRBwpagmKDIoFClVKRVoo4FIEsPAsBA?= =?us-ascii?q?QEBAQEBAQEJNwoEAQEDBIQnRQKCPyc0CQ4BAgQBAQEBAwIDAQEBAQEBAwEBA?= =?us-ascii?q?QUBAQEBAQEFAgEBAQECgSCFLzkNgjUifEoJNQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBA?= =?us-ascii?q?QEBAQEBAQEQAg1SRyAGMgFGEFFJAQ0ZgnEBgxavaho1giuBAogUgWOBOokHX?= =?us-ascii?q?YQYN4FVRIR9gmIEGIEIFBBnhQwiBIdfgQ8HIwGBIHQpkXuCfIt0nHItB4Mug?= =?us-ascii?q?TEGC4h+lAUaMYNmgUihV5g6iiaUToRGgWGCFTMaI4M5CUgZD5IShRSFalQCN?= =?us-ascii?q?gIGCwEBAwmOQYI2AQE?= IronPort-PHdr: A9a23:S0xTehBMdQ1Ah2qpq7qZUyQUa0MY04WdBeb1wqQuh78GSKm/5ZOqZ BWZua81ygaSDM6CtqMMotGVmpioYXYH75eFvSJKW713fDhBt/8rmRc9CtWOE0zxIa2iRSU7G MNfSA0tpCnjYgBaF8nkelLdvGC54yIMFRXjLwp1Ifn+FpLPg8it2O2+5YHfbx9ViDezZb5+I wi6oAXVu8ILnYZsN6E9xwfTrHBVYepW32RoJVySnxb4+Mi9+YNo/jpTtfw86cNOSL32cKskQ 7NWCjQmKH0169bwtRbfVwuP52ATXXsQnxFVHgXK9hD6XpP2sivnqupw3TSRMMPqQbwoXzmp8 qFmQwLqhigaLT406GHZhNJtgqxVoxyvoB5ww4Dbb4+aL/dyYqDQcMkGSWdbQspdSypMCZ68Y YsVCOoBOP5VoZPnqFsKqRuxHxesBOLywTFNnHD5wLc10+E8GgzBxAwvBdYOsHDOo9XrNaceS +O1w7PVwjrZavNbwjb96I7Uch8/pfGAR65/cc3UyUQ2EQ7Ok1qfp5D/MTyPyuQNr3aU7/BmV e+3lWIrtQ98rDavyMoyi4TEh58Yx0zH+Cllwos5Odm1RUFlbNOkH5Vdqz2WOo92TM4/QGxlv Ds2x7kJtJKmfSUG1JIqzAPRZfyAdoiH+BPjVOCJLDd5gnJlZKywhxKo/Ue8ze38U9G430tSr iVYkdnArHcN1wbc6sWBV/Bz/V+h1C6S2wzP8O1JI1o4mbTHJ5Ml2LI9l5oevELeFSHsgkr2l rWZdkA89+it7OTof6vpq4eHN49xlgH+KqMumtGjAeggMggBQWyb+eOk2b3k5035W7BKjvIsn aXFrJzXJt4Xpqy3AwNP04Yj7Qq/ACmi0NgCgXYHK1dFdAqGj4jvJV7OPOj1Aeqjj1i2kjpn3 e7KMqHlD5nXL3XOkK/tfbNn5E5dzAozw8pf55VRCrwZOPL8QEvxtNjCAR8nMgy42eXnB89g2 YwEXGKCGa6ZMKXOsVCW4uIjOfWDZIgQuDrlMfgq++bujWMlmV8aZaSmwIUYaG6jE/t7O0WWf Hnsjs0GEWcQsQptBNDt3VGPTxZff3qxGaUm6WIVEoWjWL/KQoSknr3J/y63F5geMnhPDlSFD 3audIyIUvIkaSSOL8snmTsBA+vyA7Q93A2j4Vepg4FsKfDZr3VwiA== IronPort-HdrOrdr: A9a23:42SyZqG+zY4B5p58pLqE68eALOsnbusQ8zAXPo5KJyC9Ffbo8f xG88566faZslossTQb6LW90cq7MBThHOBOkOos1N6ZNWGKhILrFvAH0WKI+Vzd8kPFmdK1kp 0KT0F5MrfN5CBB/KTH3DU= X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6200,9189,10102"; a="243229674" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.85,281,1624345200"; d="scan'208";a="243229674" Received: from orsmga008.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.65]) by fmsmga101.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 09 Sep 2021 14:26:55 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.85,281,1624345200"; d="scan'208";a="479853163" Received: from win-kgkr85lv27f.jf.intel.com (HELO localhost.localdomain) ([10.166.188.124]) by orsmga008.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 09 Sep 2021 14:26:55 -0700 From: Pallavi Kadam To: dev@dpdk.org Cc: thomas@monjalon.net, qi.z.zhang@intel.com, fady@mellanox.com, Narcisa.Vasile@microsoft.com, dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com, ferruh.yigit@intel.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 16:23:21 -0700 Message-Id: <20210909232321.5091-4-pallavi.kadam@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.31.1.windows.1 In-Reply-To: <20210909232321.5091-1-pallavi.kadam@intel.com> References: <20210909200533.3747-1-pallavi.kadam@intel.com> <20210909232321.5091-1-pallavi.kadam@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 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 | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst b/doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst index fcea8151bf..20b89431a4 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst @@ -616,3 +616,21 @@ 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: + `http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?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