From 8e6281f4880565e8ad757fe631afc4c2e060d06a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rasesh Mody Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2019 02:19:54 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] doc: add co-existence consideration for qede Add and update co-existence considerations for qede PMD Cc: stable@dpdk.org Signed-off-by: Rasesh Mody --- doc/guides/nics/qede.rst | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/qede.rst b/doc/guides/nics/qede.rst index c0a383381a..05a6aef579 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/qede.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/qede.rst @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ QEDE Poll Mode Driver The QEDE poll mode driver library (**librte_pmd_qede**) implements support for **QLogic FastLinQ QL4xxxx 10G/25G/40G/50G/100G Intelligent Ethernet Adapters (IEA) and Converged Network Adapters (CNA)** family of adapters as well as SR-IOV virtual functions (VF). It is supported on -several standard Linux distros like RHEL7.x, SLES12.x and Ubuntu. +several standard Linux distros like RHEL, SLES, Ubuntu etc. It is compile-tested under FreeBSD OS. More information can be found at `QLogic Corporation's Website @@ -47,8 +47,27 @@ Non-supported Features Co-existence considerations --------------------------- -- QLogic FastLinQ QL4xxxx CNAs can have both NIC and Storage personalities. However, coexistence with storage protocol drivers (qedi and qedf) is not supported on the same adapter. So storage personality has to be disabled on that adapter when used in DPDK applications. -- For SR-IOV case, qede PMD will be used to bind to SR-IOV VF device and Linux native kernel driver (qede) will be attached to SR-IOV PF. + +- QLogic FastLinQ QL4xxxx CNAs support Ethernet, RDMA, iSCSI and FCoE + functionalities. These functionalities are supported using + QLogic Linux kernel drivers qed, qede, qedr, qedi and qedf. DPDK is + supported on these adapters using qede PMD. + +- When SR-IOV is not enabled on the adapter, + QLogic Linux kernel drivers (qed, qede, qedr, qedi and qedf) and qede + PMD can’t be attached to different PFs on a given QLogic FastLinQ + QL4xxx adapter. + A given adapter needs to be completely used by DPDK or Linux drivers + Before binding DPDK driver to one or more PFs on the adapter, + please make sure to unbind Linux drivers from all PFs of the adapter. + If there are multiple adapters on the system, one or more adapters + can be used by DPDK driver completely and other adapters can be used + by Linux drivers completely. + +- When SR-IOV is enabled on the adapter, + Linux kernel drivers (qed, qede, qedr, qedi and qedf) can be bound + to the PFs of a given adapter and either qede PMD or Linux drivers + (qed and qede) can be bound to the VFs of the adapter. Supported QLogic Adapters ------------------------- -- 2.20.1