From: Ouyang Changchun Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 08:40:47 +0000 (+0800) Subject: doc: update virtio prog guide X-Git-Tag: spdx-start~9424 X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=227cce519f33d0471d40311275d7ca7dc01c24e2;p=dpdk.git doc: update virtio prog guide This patch add contents for major change in single virtio implementation, also add back something for merge-able feature and promiscuous mode in virtio. Signed-off-by: Changchun Ouyang Acked-by: Siobhan Butler --- diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/poll_mode_drv_emulated_virtio_nic.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/poll_mode_drv_emulated_virtio_nic.rst index b0a6250ad0..aae32b61bd 100644 --- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/poll_mode_drv_emulated_virtio_nic.rst +++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/poll_mode_drv_emulated_virtio_nic.rst @@ -68,20 +68,29 @@ Features and Limitations of virtio PMD In this release, the virtio PMD driver provides the basic functionality of packet reception and transmission. -* This release does not support mergeable buffers per packet for performance reasons. - The packet size supported is from 64 to 1518. - rte_mbuf should be big enough to hold the whole packet. +* It supports merge-able buffers per packet when receiving packets and scattered buffer per packet + when transmitting packets. The packet size supported is from 64 to 1518. + +* It supports multicast packets and promiscuous mode. * The descriptor number for the RX/TX queue is hard-coded to be 256 by qemu. If given a different descriptor number by the upper application, the virtio PMD generates a warning and fall back to the hard-coded value. -* Features such as mac/vlan filter are not supported. +* Features of mac/vlan filter are supported, negotiation with vhost/backend are needed to support them. + When backend can't support vlan filter, virtio app on guest should disable vlan filter to make sure + the virtio port is configured correctly. E.g. specify '--disable-hw-vlan' in testpmd command line. * RTE_PKTMBUF_HEADROOM should be defined larger than sizeof(struct virtio_net_hdr), which is 10 bytes. * Virtio does not support runtime configuration. +* Virtio supports Link State interrupt. + +* Virtio supports software vlan stripping and inserting. + +* Virtio supports using port IO to get PCI resource when uio/igb_uio module is not available. + Prerequisites -------------