Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: add i40e update

["Zhang, Helin" <helin.zhang@intel.com>]

Hi Beilei

Could you help to rebase it on the latest sub tree of dpdk-next-net-intel? It shows failure duing merge. Thanks!

/Helin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Beilei Xing
> Sent: Monday, January 8, 2018 3:59 PM
> To: Mcnamara, John
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: add i40e update
> 
> Update release note to declare MPLSoUDP/MPLSoGRE/ GTP-U/GTP-
> C/PPPoE/PPPoL2TP steering support in i40e driver.
> Update i40e.rst to declare DDP support and input set configuration.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Beilei Xing <beilei.xing@intel.com>
> ---
> 
> v2 changes:
>  - Add DDP support and input set configuration in i40e.rst.
> 
>  doc/guides/nics/i40e.rst               | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 78 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/i40e.rst b/doc/guides/nics/i40e.rst index
> 2507d5f..789d6d6 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/nics/i40e.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/nics/i40e.rst
> @@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ Features of the I40E PMD are:
>  - Hot plug
>  - IEEE1588/802.1AS timestamping
>  - VF Daemon (VFD) - EXPERIMENTAL
> +- Dynamic Device Personalization (DDP)
> 
> 
>  Prerequisites
> @@ -374,6 +375,52 @@ configuration passed on the EAL command line.
>  The floating VEB functionality requires a NIC firmware version of 5.0  or
> greater.
> 
> +Dynamic Device Personalization (DDP)
> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> +
> +The Intel® Ethernet Controller X*710 support a feature called "Dynamic
> +Device Personalization (DDP)", which is used to configure hardware by
> +downloading a profile to support protocols/filters which are not supported by
> default.
> +The DDP functionality requires a NIC firmware version of 6.0 or greater.
> +
> +Current implementation supports
> +MPLSoUDP/MPLSoGRE/GTP-C/GTP-U/PPPoE/PPPoL2TP,
> +steering can be used with rte_flow API.
> +
> +Load a profile which supports MPLSoUDP/MPLSoGRE:
> +
> +.. code-block:: console
> +
> +   testpmd> ddp add 0 ./mpls.pkgo
> +
> +Delete a MPLS profile:
> +
> +.. code-block:: console
> +
> +   testpmd> ddp del 0 ./mpls.pkgo
> +
> +Get loaded DDP package info list:
> +
> +.. code-block:: console
> +
> +   testpmd> ddp get list 0
> +
> +Display information about a MPLS profile:
> +
> +.. code-block:: console
> +
> +   testpmd> ddp get info ./mpls.pkgo
> +
> +Input set configuration
> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> +Input set for any PCTYPE can be configured with user defined
> +configuration, For example, to use only 48bit prefix for IPv6 src address for
> IPv6 TCP RSS:
> +
> +.. code-block:: console
> +
> +   testpmd> port config 0 pctype 43 hash_inset clear all
> +   testpmd> port config 0 pctype 43 hash_inset set field 13
> +   testpmd> port config 0 pctype 43 hash_inset set field 14
> +   testpmd> port config 0 pctype 43 hash_inset set field 15
> 
>  Limitations or Known issues
>  ---------------------------
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst
> b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst
> index 621b8f5..b016c54 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst
> @@ -47,6 +47,37 @@ New Features
>    users. According to the device configuration, it will setup TX->RX loopback
>    link or not.
> 
> +* **Updated i40e driver to support MPLSoUDP/MPLSoGRE.**
> +
> +  Updated i40e PMD to support MPLSoUDP/MPLSoGRE with
> MPLSoUDP/MPLSoGRE
> + supporting profiles which can be programmed by dynamic device
> + personalization (DDP) process:
> +
> +  * Support cloud filer of MPLSoUDP/MPLSoGRE flow based on MPLS label.
> +
> +  This feature was implemented in release_17_05.
> +
> +* **Updated i40e driver to support GTP-C/GTP-U.**
> +
> +  Updated i40e PMD to support GTP-C/GTP-U with GTP-C/GTP-U supporting
> + profiles which can be programmed by dynamic device personalization
> + (DDP)
> +  process:
> +
> +  * Support RSS of GTP-C/GTP-U flow.
> +  * Support flow director of GTP-C/GTP-U flow based on TEID.
> +  * Support cloud filer of GTP-C/GTP-U flow based on TEID.
> +
> +  This feature was implemented in release_17_11, and only GTPv1 is
> supported.
> +
> +* **Updated i40e driver to support PPPoE/PPPoL2TP.**
> +
> +  Updated i40e PMD to support PPPoE/PPPoL2TP with PPPoE/PPPoL2TP
> + supporting  profiles which can be programmed by dynamic device
> + personalization (DDP)
> +  process:
> +
> +  * Support RSS of PPPoE/PPPoL2TP flow based on user defined input set.
> +  * Support FDIR of PPPoE/PPPoL2TP flow based on user defined input set.
> +
>  API Changes
>  -----------
> 
> --
> 2.5.5