From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga04.intel.com (mga04.intel.com [192.55.52.120]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB4D21B5F7 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2018 09:23:39 +0100 (CET) X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from fmsmga002.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.26]) by fmsmga104.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 18 Dec 2018 00:23:38 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.56,367,1539673200"; d="scan'208";a="126917799" Received: from tiagolam-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.237.221.21]) ([10.237.221.21]) by fmsmga002.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 18 Dec 2018 00:23:37 -0800 To: Ferruh Yigit , dev@dpdk.org Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com References: <1545038062-35465-1-git-send-email-tiago.lam@intel.com> <772600cf-63c7-7a40-cc33-686a9df39083@intel.com> <87dbb7e9-eebb-7499-9959-4586990a7385@intel.com> From: "Lam, Tiago" Message-ID: Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 08:23:36 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.3.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87dbb7e9-eebb-7499-9959-4586990a7385@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/af_packet: add docs guide 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: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 08:23:40 -0000 On 18/12/2018 00:39, Ferruh Yigit wrote: > On 12/18/2018 12:31 AM, Ferruh Yigit wrote: >> On 12/17/2018 9:14 AM, Tiago Lam wrote: >>> As of commit 364e08f2bbc0, DPDK allows an aplication to send and receive >>> raw packets using an AF_PACKET and PACKET_MMAP, when using a Linux >>> Kernel. This complements it by adding a simple guide with the following >>> information: >>> - An introduction, where a brief explanation of this driver is given, >>> pointing out the dependency on PACKET_MMAP; >>> - Which options are supported at configuration time, while setting up an >>> interface, and it's inherent limitations; >>> - What the prerequisites are; >>> - A command line example of how to set up a DPDK port using the >>> af_packet driver. >>> >>> Since there's a dependency in PACKET_MMAP, the guide also points to the >>> original Kernel documentation, so the reader can get more details. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Tiago Lam > <...> >> >> Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit > > Applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks. > > (mentioned changes applied while merging, please confirm) > Thanks, Ferruh, for applying with the fixes. I've re-build the docs and looks from here. Tiago.