[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc/guides: add info on how to enable QAT

Mcnamara, John john.mcnamara at intel.com
Mon Sep 12 16:18:30 CEST 2016


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Breen, Eoin
> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2016 2:27 PM
> To: Jain, Deepak K <deepak.k.jain at intel.com>; Trahe, Fiona
> <fiona.trahe at intel.com>; Griffin, John <john.griffin at intel.com>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Mcnamara, John <john.mcnamara at intel.com>; Breen, Eoin
> <eoin.breen at intel.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] doc/guides: add info on how to enable QAT
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eoin Breen <eoin.breen at intel.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/cryptodevs/qat.rst | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/cryptodevs/qat.rst b/doc/guides/cryptodevs/qat.rst
> index cae1958..db03470 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/cryptodevs/qat.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/cryptodevs/qat.rst
> @@ -78,6 +78,11 @@ Installation
>  To use the DPDK QAT PMD an SRIOV-enabled QAT kernel driver is required.
> The  VF devices exposed by this driver will be used by QAT PMD.
> 
> +To enable QAT in DPDK you must change the ./config/common_base file.
> +Change the line 'CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_QAT=n' to
> 'CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_QAT=y' to do this.
> +You must then configure and build dpdk, for example using the commands:
> +make T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc config; make
> +

Hi,

>From a documentation point of view the 'make' commands should be on two lines, indented to indicate a code block and prefixed with '::' and a blank line.

The filename and CONFIG items should also be in ```` backquotes.

John


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