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From: Heinrich Kuhn <heinrich.kuhn@netronome.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: "Chaoyong.He" <chaoyong.he@corigine.com>,
	stable@dpdk.org, Heinrich Kuhn <heinrich.kuhn@netronome.com>
Subject: [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: fix nfp multiport syntax
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 13:46:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210225114622.2431-1-heinrich.kuhn@netronome.com> (raw)

From: "Chaoyong.He" <chaoyong.he@corigine.com>

1. Fixup the suffix of the PCI ID to be consistent with the code.
2. Add specification of using MAC address to identify port.

Fixes: 979f2bae0 ("doc: improve multiport PF in nfp guide")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Chaoyong.He <chaoyong.he@corigine.com>
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Kuhn <heinrich.kuhn@netronome.com>
---
 doc/guides/nics/nfp.rst | 14 +++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/nfp.rst b/doc/guides/nics/nfp.rst
index fef99973b..2b170539d 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/nfp.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/nfp.rst
@@ -117,15 +117,19 @@ 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
+suffix added to the PCI ID: wwww:xx:yy.z_portn. 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
+      0000:03:00.0_port0
+      0000:03:00.0_port1
+      0000:03:00.0_port2
+      0000:03:00.0_port3
+
+Some dpdk applications can choose to use the MAC address to identify ports,
+OVS-DPDK is one such example, please refer to:
+https://docs.openvswitch.org/en/latest/howto/dpdk/
 
    .. Note::
 
-- 
2.30.0


             reply	other threads:[~2021-02-25 11:46 UTC|newest]

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2021-02-25 11:46 Heinrich Kuhn [this message]
2021-03-01 13:45 ` Ferruh Yigit

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