X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Fnics%2Fvirtio.rst;h=ac07d4d1e5618aa0c2f1ac4da82ad418a60fc584;hb=2e3dbc80cc012f11799c7eda866e1168dadb5032;hp=b7be3aca102a148ba1e5c41ae2e364cf147c2ca9;hpb=9ef38ddba35cb31c613dc0ab7afafbd5d422b429;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/virtio.rst b/doc/guides/nics/virtio.rst index b7be3aca10..ac07d4d1e5 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/virtio.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/virtio.rst @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ In this release, the virtio PMD driver provides the basic functionality of packe * Virtio supports software vlan stripping and inserting. -* Virtio supports using port IO to get PCI resource when uio/igb_uio module is not available. +* Virtio supports using port IO to get PCI resource when UIO module is not available. Prerequisites ------------- @@ -103,7 +103,8 @@ Host2VM communication example insmod rte_kni.ko - Other basic DPDK preparations like hugepage enabling, uio port binding are not listed here. + Other basic DPDK preparations like hugepage enabling, + UIO port binding are not listed here. Please refer to the *DPDK Getting Started Guide* for detailed instructions. #. Launch the kni user application: @@ -152,7 +153,7 @@ Host2VM communication example .. code-block:: console modprobe uio - echo 512 > /sys/devices/system/node/node0/hugepages/hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages + dpdk-hugepages.py --setup 1G modprobe uio_pci_generic ./usertools/dpdk-devbind.py -b uio_pci_generic 00:03.0 @@ -266,7 +267,7 @@ There is no vector callbacks for packed virtqueue for now. Example of using the vector version of the virtio poll mode driver in ``testpmd``:: - testpmd -l 0-2 -n 4 -- -i --rxq=1 --txq=1 --nb-cores=1 + dpdk-testpmd -l 0-2 -n 4 -- -i --rxq=1 --txq=1 --nb-cores=1 In-order callbacks only work on simulated virtio user vdev.