X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Fprog_guide%2Fpoll_mode_drv.rst;h=b2cf4835462a2bd2705660c0335691d6817b4c30;hb=10ad83d0f0ae2b01618c673055f2cf6901eaec7b;hp=1ac8f7ebf3ba34f32acf3a4328b4138cb22f1b47;hpb=7146aa19aca1ae78a04f620fbedb64190c219409;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/poll_mode_drv.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/poll_mode_drv.rst index 1ac8f7ebf3..b2cf483546 100644 --- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/poll_mode_drv.rst +++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/poll_mode_drv.rst @@ -1,32 +1,5 @@ -.. BSD LICENSE - Copyright(c) 2010-2015 Intel Corporation. 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This PMD feature found in som See `Hardware Offload`_ for ``DEV_TX_OFFLOAD_MT_LOCKFREE`` capability probing details. -Device Identification and Configuration ---------------------------------------- +Device Identification, Ownership and Configuration +-------------------------------------------------- Device Identification ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -171,6 +144,16 @@ Based on their PCI identifier, NIC ports are assigned two other identifiers: * A port name used to designate the port in console messages, for administration or debugging purposes. For ease of use, the port name includes the port index. +Port Ownership +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +The Ethernet devices ports can be owned by a single DPDK entity (application, library, PMD, process, etc). +The ownership mechanism is controlled by ethdev APIs and allows to set/remove/get a port owner by DPDK entities. +Allowing this should prevent any multiple management of Ethernet port by different entities. + +.. note:: + + It is the DPDK entity responsibility to set the port owner before using it and to manage the port usage synchronization between different threads or processes. + Device Configuration ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -310,6 +293,41 @@ exported by each PMD. The list of flags and their precise meaning is described in the mbuf API documentation and in the in :ref:`Mbuf Library `, section "Meta Information". +Per-Port and Per-Queue Offloads +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +In the DPDK offload API, offloads are divided into per-port and per-queue offloads as follows: + +* A per-queue offloading can be enabled on a queue and disabled on another queue at the same time. +* A pure per-port offload is the one supported by device but not per-queue type. +* A pure per-port offloading can't be enabled on a queue and disabled on another queue at the same time. +* A pure per-port offloading must be enabled or disabled on all queues at the same time. +* Any offloading is per-queue or pure per-port type, but can't be both types at same devices. +* Port capabilities = per-queue capabilities + pure per-port capabilities. +* Any supported offloading can be enabled on all queues. + +The different offloads capabilities can be queried using ``rte_eth_dev_info_get()``. +The ``dev_info->[rt]x_queue_offload_capa`` returned from ``rte_eth_dev_info_get()`` includes all per-queue offloading capabilities. +The ``dev_info->[rt]x_offload_capa`` returned from ``rte_eth_dev_info_get()`` includes all pure per-port and per-queue offloading capabilities. +Supported offloads can be either per-port or per-queue. + +Offloads are enabled using the existing ``DEV_TX_OFFLOAD_*`` or ``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_*`` flags. +Any requested offloading by an application must be within the device capabilities. +Any offloading is disabled by default if it is not set in the parameter +``dev_conf->[rt]xmode.offloads`` to ``rte_eth_dev_configure()`` and +``[rt]x_conf->offloads`` to ``rte_eth_[rt]x_queue_setup()``. + +If any offloading is enabled in ``rte_eth_dev_configure()`` by an application, +it is enabled on all queues no matter whether it is per-queue or +per-port type and no matter whether it is set or cleared in +``[rt]x_conf->offloads`` to ``rte_eth_[rt]x_queue_setup()``. + +If a per-queue offloading hasn't been enabled in ``rte_eth_dev_configure()``, +it can be enabled or disabled in ``rte_eth_[rt]x_queue_setup()`` for individual queue. +A newly added offloads in ``[rt]x_conf->offloads`` to ``rte_eth_[rt]x_queue_setup()`` input by application +is the one which hasn't been enabled in ``rte_eth_dev_configure()`` and is requested to be enabled +in ``rte_eth_[rt]x_queue_setup()``. It must be per-queue type, otherwise trigger an error log. + Poll Mode Driver API -------------------- @@ -342,6 +360,27 @@ Ethernet Device API The Ethernet device API exported by the Ethernet PMDs is described in the *DPDK API Reference*. +.. _ethernet_device_standard_device_arguments: + +Ethernet Device Standard Device Arguments +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Standard Ethernet device arguments allow for a set of commonly used arguments/ +parameters which are applicable to all Ethernet devices to be available to for +specification of specific device and for passing common configuration +parameters to those ports. + +* ``representor`` for a device which supports the creation of representor ports + this argument allows user to specify which switch ports to enable port + representors for.:: + + -w BDBF,representor=0 + -w BDBF,representor=[0,4,6,9] + -w BDBF,representor=[0-31] + +Note: PMDs are not required to support the standard device arguments and users +should consult the relevant PMD documentation to see support devargs. + Extended Statistics API ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -536,3 +575,43 @@ call. As an end result, the application is able to achieve its goal of monitoring a single statistic ("rx_errors" in this case), and if that shows packets being dropped, it can easily retrieve a "set" of statistics using the IDs array parameter to ``rte_eth_xstats_get_by_id`` function. + +NIC Reset API +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +.. code-block:: c + + int rte_eth_dev_reset(uint16_t port_id); + +Sometimes a port has to be reset passively. For example when a PF is +reset, all its VFs should also be reset by the application to make them +consistent with the PF. A DPDK application also can call this function +to trigger a port reset. Normally, a DPDK application would invokes this +function when an RTE_ETH_EVENT_INTR_RESET event is detected. + +It is the duty of the PMD to trigger RTE_ETH_EVENT_INTR_RESET events and +the application should register a callback function to handle these +events. When a PMD needs to trigger a reset, it can trigger an +RTE_ETH_EVENT_INTR_RESET event. On receiving an RTE_ETH_EVENT_INTR_RESET +event, applications can handle it as follows: Stop working queues, stop +calling Rx and Tx functions, and then call rte_eth_dev_reset(). For +thread safety all these operations should be called from the same thread. + +For example when PF is reset, the PF sends a message to notify VFs of +this event and also trigger an interrupt to VFs. Then in the interrupt +service routine the VFs detects this notification message and calls +_rte_eth_dev_callback_process(dev, RTE_ETH_EVENT_INTR_RESET, NULL). +This means that a PF reset triggers an RTE_ETH_EVENT_INTR_RESET +event within VFs. The function _rte_eth_dev_callback_process() will +call the registered callback function. The callback function can trigger +the application to handle all operations the VF reset requires including +stopping Rx/Tx queues and calling rte_eth_dev_reset(). + +The rte_eth_dev_reset() itself is a generic function which only does +some hardware reset operations through calling dev_unint() and +dev_init(), and itself does not handle synchronization, which is handled +by application. + +The PMD itself should not call rte_eth_dev_reset(). The PMD can trigger +the application to handle reset event. It is duty of application to +handle all synchronization before it calls rte_eth_dev_reset().