X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Fsample_app_ug%2Fkernel_nic_interface.rst;h=2ae9b702a355234ff5765124349e3222ef148e98;hb=84121f197187;hp=d6876e2ffa5668d36a3d249bfea4836b3a65bfde;hpb=ba9e05cb6b002016b01adf4e8700f206f3d04fd6;p=dpdk.git

diff --git a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/kernel_nic_interface.rst b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/kernel_nic_interface.rst
index d6876e2ffa..2ae9b702a3 100644
--- a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/kernel_nic_interface.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/kernel_nic_interface.rst
@@ -71,13 +71,12 @@ it is just for performance testing, or it can work together with VMDq support in
 
 The packet flow through the Kernel NIC Interface application is as shown in the following figure.
 
-.. _figure_2:
+.. _figure_kernel_nic:
 
-**Figure 2. Kernel NIC Application Packet Flow**
+.. figure:: img/kernel_nic.*
 
-.. image3_png has been renamed to kernel_nic.*
+   Kernel NIC Application Packet Flow
 
-|kernel_nic|
 
 Compiling the Application
 -------------------------
@@ -88,8 +87,8 @@ Compile the application as follows:
 
     .. code-block:: console
 
-        export RTE_SDK=/path/to/rte_sdk cd
-        ${RTE_SDK}/examples/kni
+        export RTE_SDK=/path/to/rte_sdk
+        cd ${RTE_SDK}/examples/kni
 
 #.  Set the target (a default target is used if not specified)
 
@@ -238,20 +237,10 @@ The following sections provide some explanation of code.
 Initialization
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-Setup of mbuf pool, driver and queues is similar to the setup done in the L2 Forwarding sample application
-(see Chapter 9 "L2 Forwarding Sample Application (in Real and Virtualized Environments" for details).
+Setup of mbuf pool, driver and queues is similar to the setup done in the :doc:`l2_forward_real_virtual`..
 In addition, one or more kernel NIC interfaces are allocated for each
 of the configured ports according to the command line parameters.
 
-The code for creating the kernel NIC interface for a specific port is as follows:
-
-.. code-block:: c
-
-    kni = rte_kni_create(port, MAX_PACKET_SZ, pktmbuf_pool, &kni_ops);
-    if (kni == NULL)
-        rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, "Fail to create kni dev "
-           "for port: %d\n", port);
-
 The code for allocating the kernel NIC interfaces for a specific port is as follows:
 
 .. code-block:: c
@@ -275,11 +264,11 @@ The code for allocating the kernel NIC interfaces for a specific port is as foll
 
             memset(&conf, 0, sizeof(conf));
             if (params[port_id]->nb_lcore_k) {
-                rte_snprintf(conf.name, RTE_KNI_NAMESIZE, "vEth%u_%u", port_id, i);
+                snprintf(conf.name, RTE_KNI_NAMESIZE, "vEth%u_%u", port_id, i);
                 conf.core_id = params[port_id]->lcore_k[i];
                 conf.force_bind = 1;
             } else
-                rte_snprintf(conf.name, RTE_KNI_NAMESIZE, "vEth%u", port_id);
+                snprintf(conf.name, RTE_KNI_NAMESIZE, "vEth%u", port_id);
                 conf.group_id = (uint16_t)port_id;
                 conf.mbuf_size = MAX_PACKET_SZ;
 
@@ -362,7 +351,7 @@ The code is as follows:
                 goto fail;
             }
 
-            rte_snprintf(s, sizeof(s), "%.*s", size, p);
+            snprintf(s, sizeof(s), "%.*s", size, p);
             nb_token = rte_strsplit(s, sizeof(s), str_fld, _NUM_FLD, ',');
 
             if (nb_token <= FLD_LCORE_TX) {
@@ -435,7 +424,7 @@ to see if this lcore is reading from or writing to kernel NIC interfaces.
 
 For the case that reads from a NIC port and writes to the kernel NIC interfaces,
 the packet reception is the same as in L2 Forwarding sample application
-(see Section 9.4.6 "Receive, Process  and Transmit Packets").
+(see :ref:`l2_fwd_app_rx_tx_packets`).
 The packet transmission is done by sending mbufs into the kernel NIC interfaces by rte_kni_tx_burst().
 The KNI library automatically frees the mbufs after the kernel successfully copied the mbufs.
 
@@ -482,7 +471,7 @@ The KNI library automatically frees the mbufs after the kernel successfully copi
 For the other case that reads from kernel NIC interfaces and writes to a physical NIC port, packets are retrieved by reading
 mbufs from kernel NIC interfaces by `rte_kni_rx_burst()`.
 The packet transmission is the same as in the L2 Forwarding sample application
-(see Section 9.4.6 "Receive, Process and Transmit Packet's").
+(see :ref:`l2_fwd_app_rx_tx_packets`).
 
 .. code-block:: c
 
@@ -616,5 +605,3 @@ Currently, setting a new MTU and configuring the network interface (up/ down) ar
             RTE_LOG(ERR, APP, "Failed to start port %d\n", port_id);
         return ret;
     }
-
-.. |kernel_nic| image:: img/kernel_nic.*