From: Heinrich Kuhn <heinrich.kuhn@netronome.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: Heinrich Kuhn <heinrich.kuhn@netronome.com>,
stable@dpdk.org, Simon Horman <simon.horman@netronome.com>
Subject: [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev][PATCH] doc: improve NFP PMD multiport PF documentation
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2020 13:23:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200903112351.45880-1-heinrich.kuhn@netronome.com> (raw)
The Agilio CX family of smartNIC's generally have a 1:many mapping of PF
to physical ports. Elaborate on this mapping in the PF multiport section
of the NFP PMD documentation.
Fixes: d625beafc8be ("doc: update NFP with PF support information")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Kuhn <heinrich.kuhn@netronome.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@netronome.com>
---
doc/guides/nics/nfp.rst | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/nfp.rst b/doc/guides/nics/nfp.rst
index 5f2a0698f..020e37d13 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/nfp.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/nfp.rst
@@ -102,22 +102,39 @@ directory per firmware application. Options 1 and 2 for firmware filenames allow
more than one SmartNIC, same type of SmartNIC or different ones, and to upload a
different firmware to each SmartNIC.
+ .. Note::
+ Currently the NFP PMD supports using the PF with Agilio Basic Firmware. See
+ https://help.netronome.com/support/solutions for more information on the
+ various firmwares supported by the Netronome Agilio CX smartNIC.
PF multiport support
--------------------
-Some NFP cards support several physical ports with just one single PCI device.
-The DPDK core is designed with a 1:1 relationship between PCI devices and DPDK
-ports, so NFP PMD PF support requires handling the multiport case specifically.
-During NFP PF initialization, the PMD will extract the information about the
-number of PF ports from the firmware and will create as many DPDK ports as
-needed.
+The NFP PMD can work with up to 8 ports on the same PF device. The number of
+available ports is firmware and hardware dependent, and the driver looks for a
+firmware symbol during initialization to know how many can be used.
-Because the unusual relationship between a single PCI device and several DPDK
-ports, there are some limitations when using more than one PF DPDK port: there
-is no support for RX interrupts and it is not possible either to use those PF
-ports with the device hotplug functionality.
+DPDK apps work with ports, and a port is usually a PF or a VF PCI device.
+However, with the NFP PF multiport there is just one PF PCI device. Supporting
+this particular configuration requires the PMD to create ports in a special way,
+although once they are created, DPDK apps should be able to use them as normal
+PCI ports.
+NFP ports belonging to same PF can be seen inside PMD initialization with a
+suffix added to the PCI ID: wwww:xx:yy.z_port_n. For example, a PF with PCI ID
+0000:03:00.0 and four ports is seen by the PMD code as:
+
+ .. code-block:: console
+
+ 0000:03:00.0_port_0
+ 0000:03:00.0_port_1
+ 0000:03:00.0_port_2
+ 0000:03:00.0_port_3
+
+ .. Note::
+
+ There are some limitations with multiport support: RX interrupts and
+ device hot-plugging are not supported.
PF multiprocess support
-----------------------
--
2.26.2
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