doc: fix diagram in dpaa2 guide

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / nics / dpaa2.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/dpaa2.rst b/doc/guides/nics/dpaa2.rst
index 392ab05..ca6ba5b 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/nics/dpaa2.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/dpaa2.rst
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ..  SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
-    Copyright 2016 NXP
+    Copyright 2016,2020 NXP
 
 
 DPAA2 Poll Mode Driver
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ The diagram below shows the dpaa2 drivers involved in a networking
 scenario and the objects bound to each driver.  A brief description
 of each driver follows.
 
-.. code-block: console
+.. code-block:: console
 
 
                                        +------------+
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ active  --  Ethernet, crypto, compression, etc.
 DPBP based Mempool driver
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-The DPBP driver is bound to a DPBP objects and provides sevices to
+The DPBP driver is bound to a DPBP objects and provides services to
 create a hardware offloaded packet buffer mempool.
 
 DPAA2 NIC Driver
@@ -421,8 +421,8 @@ See :doc:`../platform/dpaa2` for setup information
 
 Currently supported by DPDK:
 
-- NXP SDK **18.09+**.
-- MC Firmware version **10.10.0** and higher.
+- NXP LSDK **19.08+**.
+- MC Firmware version **10.18.0** and higher.
 - Supported architectures:  **arm64 LE**.
 
 - Follow the DPDK :ref:`Getting Started Guide for Linux <linux_gsg>` to setup the basic DPDK environment.
@@ -441,21 +441,19 @@ Config File Options
 The following options can be modified in the ``config`` file.
 Please note that enabling debugging options may affect system performance.
 
-- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_FSLMC_BUS`` (default ``n``)
+- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_FSLMC_BUS`` (default ``y``)
 
-  By default it is enabled only for defconfig_arm64-dpaa2-* config.
   Toggle compilation of the ``librte_bus_fslmc`` driver.
 
-- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_DPAA2_PMD`` (default ``n``)
+- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_DPAA2_PMD`` (default ``y``)
 
-  By default it is enabled only for defconfig_arm64-dpaa2-* config.
   Toggle compilation of the ``librte_pmd_dpaa2`` driver.
 
 - ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_DPAA2_DEBUG_DRIVER`` (default ``n``)
 
   Toggle display of debugging messages/logic
 
-- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_DPAA2_USE_PHYS_IOVA`` (default ``y``)
+- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_DPAA2_USE_PHYS_IOVA`` (default ``n``)
 
   Toggle to use physical address vs virtual address for hardware accelerators.
 
@@ -502,7 +500,11 @@ for details.
 
 * Use dev arg option ``drv_loopback=1`` to loopback packets at
   driver level. Any packet received will be reflected back by the
-  driver on same port.
+  driver on same port. e.g. ``fslmc:dpni.1,drv_loopback=1``
+
+* Use dev arg option ``drv_no_prefetch=1`` to disable prefetching
+  of the packet pull command which is issued  in the previous cycle.
+  e.g. ``fslmc:dpni.1,drv_no_prefetch=1``
 
 Enabling logs
 -------------
@@ -536,6 +538,19 @@ For blacklisting a DPAA2 device, following commands can be used.
 
 Where x is the device object id as configured in resource container.
 
+Running secondary debug app without blacklist
+---------------------------------------------
+
+dpaa2 hardware imposes limits on some H/W access devices like Management
+Control Port and H/W portal. This causes issue in their shared usages in
+case of multi-process applications. It can overcome by using
+whitelist/blacklist in primary and secondary applications.
+
+In order to ease usage of standard debugging apps like dpdk-procinfo, dpaa2
+driver reserves extra Management Control Port and H/W portal which can be
+used by debug application to debug any existing application without
+blacklisting these devices in primary process.
+
 Limitations
 -----------
 
@@ -557,4 +572,3 @@ Other Limitations
 
 - RSS hash key cannot be modified.
 - RSS RETA cannot be configured.
-- Secondary process packet I/O is not supported.