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From: ogawa.yasufumi@lab.ntt.co.jp
To: ferruh.yigit@intel.com, spp@dpdk.org, ogawa.yasufumi@lab.ntt.co.jp
Subject: [spp] [PATCH 1/8] docs: add desc of overview of SPP secondary
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 11:10:09 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1547086216-27422-2-git-send-email-ogawa.yasufumi@lab.ntt.co.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1547086216-27422-1-git-send-email-ogawa.yasufumi@lab.ntt.co.jp>

From: Yasufumi Ogawa <ogawa.yasufumi@lab.ntt.co.jp>

Add descriptions of overview of SPP secondary processes in design
section.

Signed-off-by: Yasufumi Ogawa <ogawa.yasufumi@lab.ntt.co.jp>
---
 docs/guides/design/spp_secondary.rst | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/guides/design/spp_secondary.rst b/docs/guides/design/spp_secondary.rst
index d83ac6a..b3bb270 100644
--- a/docs/guides/design/spp_secondary.rst
+++ b/docs/guides/design/spp_secondary.rst
@@ -2,15 +2,37 @@
     Copyright(c) 2019 Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
 
 
-.. _spp_overview_design_spp_secondary:
+.. _spp_design_spp_secondary:
 
 SPP Secondary
 =============
 
-SPP secondary process is ...
+SPP secondary process is a worker process in client-server multp-process
+application model. Basically, the role of secondary process is to connenct
+each of application running on host, containers or VMs for packet forwarding.
+Spp secondary process forwards packets from source port to destination port
+with DPDK's high-performance forwarding mechanizm. In other word, it behaves
+as a cable to connect two patches ports.
 
+All of secondary processes are able to attach ring PMD and vhost PMD ports
+for sending or receiving packets with other processes. Ring port is used to
+communicate with a process running on host or container if it is implemented
+as secondary process to access shared ring memory.
+Vhost port is used for a process on container or VM and implemented as primary
+process, and no need to access shared memory of SPP primary.
 
-.. _spp_overview_design_spp_secondary_nfv:
+In addition to the basic forwarding, SPP secondary process provides several
+networking features. One of the typical example is packet cauture.
+``spp_nfv`` is the simplest SPP secondary and used to connect two of processes
+or other feature ports including PCAP PMD port. PCAP PMD is to dump packets to
+a file or retrieve from.
+
+There are more specific or funcional features than ``spp_nfv``. ``spp_vf`` is
+a simple pseudo SR-IOV feature for classifying or merging packets.
+``spp_mirror`` is to duplicate incoming packets to several destination ports.
+
+
+.. _spp_design_spp_secondary_nfv:
 
 spp_nfv
 -------
-- 
2.7.4

  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-10  2:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-10  2:10 [spp] [PATCH 0/8] Revise documentation ogawa.yasufumi
2019-01-10  2:10 ` ogawa.yasufumi [this message]
2019-01-10  2:10 ` [spp] [PATCH 2/8] docs: add desc of design of spp_nfv ogawa.yasufumi
2019-01-10  2:10 ` [spp] [PATCH 3/8] docs: add image of ports_fwd_array ogawa.yasufumi
2019-01-10  2:10 ` [spp] [PATCH 4/8] docs: add image of spp_nfv threads ogawa.yasufumi
2019-01-10  2:10 ` [spp] [PATCH 5/8] docs: adjust size of images ogawa.yasufumi
2019-01-10  2:10 ` [spp] [PATCH 6/8] docs: resize font size in multi nodes example ogawa.yasufumi
2019-01-10  2:10 ` [spp] [PATCH 7/8] docs: resize font size in performance test ogawa.yasufumi
2019-01-10  2:10 ` [spp] [PATCH 8/8] docs: resize image of lb in sppc ogawa.yasufumi
2019-01-10 10:25 ` [spp] [PATCH v2 0/8] Revise documentation ogawa.yasufumi
2019-01-10 10:25   ` [spp] [PATCH v2 1/8] docs: add desc of overview of SPP secondary ogawa.yasufumi
2019-01-10 10:25   ` [spp] [PATCH v2 2/8] docs: add desc of design of spp_nfv ogawa.yasufumi
2019-01-10 10:25   ` [spp] [PATCH v2 3/8] docs: add image of ports_fwd_array ogawa.yasufumi
2019-01-10 10:25   ` [spp] [PATCH v2 4/8] docs: add image of spp_nfv threads ogawa.yasufumi
2019-01-10 10:25   ` [spp] [PATCH v2 5/8] docs: adjust size of images ogawa.yasufumi
2019-01-10 10:25   ` [spp] [PATCH v2 6/8] docs: resize font size in multi nodes example ogawa.yasufumi
2019-01-10 10:25   ` [spp] [PATCH v2 7/8] docs: resize font size in performance test ogawa.yasufumi
2019-01-10 10:25   ` [spp] [PATCH v2 8/8] docs: resize image of lb in sppc ogawa.yasufumi

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