From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Subject: [dpdk-dev] [RFC] mlx5: update NIC documentation on RDMA core version
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 13:44:21 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180102214421.22707-1-stephen@networkplumber.org> (raw)
The current driver requires v16. It will not work or build with
the older version (as in Debian stable). Note: libmlx5 is rolled
into rdma-core in current versions.
Mlx4 probably requires similar documentation update.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
---
doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 18 +++++++++---------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
index f9558da89b61..603dd4e9c1cd 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
@@ -299,26 +299,26 @@ Prerequisites
-------------
This driver relies on external libraries and kernel drivers for resources
-allocations and initialization. The following dependencies are not part of
-DPDK and must be installed separately:
+allocations and initialization. The following packages come from the
+Linux RDMA core https://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core. The current
+version of this driver requires version version 16 or later.
- **libibverbs**
User space Verbs framework used by librte_pmd_mlx5. This library provides
- a generic interface between the kernel and low-level user space drivers
- such as libmlx5.
+ a generic interface between the kernel and low-level user space drivers.
It allows slow and privileged operations (context initialization, hardware
resources allocations) to be managed by the kernel and fast operations to
never leave user space.
-- **libmlx5**
+ The development package (libibverbs-dev or libibverbs-devel) are necessary
+ for compilation.
- Low-level user space driver library for Mellanox ConnectX-4/ConnectX-5
- devices, it is automatically loaded by libibverbs.
+- **rdma-core**
- This library basically implements send/receive calls to the hardware
- queues.
+ The basic userspace infrastructure for interaction with RDMA subsystem
+ on Linux.
- **Kernel modules**
--
2.15.1
next reply other threads:[~2018-01-02 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-02 21:44 Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2018-01-03 7:52 ` Nelio Laranjeiro
2018-01-03 15:23 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-01-04 7:54 ` Nélio Laranjeiro
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