[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 09/10] doc: add librte_bpf related info

Konstantin Ananyev konstantin.ananyev at intel.com
Fri Apr 6 20:49:41 CEST 2018


Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev at intel.com>
---
 doc/api/doxy-api-index.md         |  3 ++-
 doc/api/doxy-api.conf             |  1 +
 doc/guides/prog_guide/bpf_lib.rst | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 doc/guides/prog_guide/index.rst   |  1 +
 4 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 doc/guides/prog_guide/bpf_lib.rst

diff --git a/doc/api/doxy-api-index.md b/doc/api/doxy-api-index.md
index 2f04619cb..d0c1c37ad 100644
--- a/doc/api/doxy-api-index.md
+++ b/doc/api/doxy-api-index.md
@@ -133,7 +133,8 @@ The public API headers are grouped by topics:
   [EFD]                (@ref rte_efd.h),
   [ACL]                (@ref rte_acl.h),
   [member]             (@ref rte_member.h),
-  [flow classify]      (@ref rte_flow_classify.h)
+  [flow classify]      (@ref rte_flow_classify.h),
+  [BPF]                (@ref rte_bpf.h)
 
 - **containers**:
   [mbuf]               (@ref rte_mbuf.h),
diff --git a/doc/api/doxy-api.conf b/doc/api/doxy-api.conf
index cda52fdfb..c8eb6d893 100644
--- a/doc/api/doxy-api.conf
+++ b/doc/api/doxy-api.conf
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ INPUT                   = doc/api/doxy-api-index.md \
                           lib/librte_acl \
                           lib/librte_bbdev \
                           lib/librte_bitratestats \
+                          lib/librte_bpf \
                           lib/librte_cfgfile \
                           lib/librte_cmdline \
                           lib/librte_compat \
diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/bpf_lib.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/bpf_lib.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..edc0baafd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/bpf_lib.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+..  SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+    Copyright(c) 2018 Intel Corporation.
+
+Berkeley Packet Filter Library
+==============================
+
+The DPDK provides an BPF library that gives the ability
+to load and execute Enhanced Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) bytecode within
+user-space dpdk appilication.
+
+It supports basic set of features from eBPF spec.
+Please refer to the
+`eBPF spec <https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/filter.txt>`
+for more information.
+Also it introduces basic framework to load/unload BPF-based filters
+on eth devices (right now only via SW RX/TX callbacks).
+
+The library API provides the following basic operations:
+
+*  Create a new BPF execution context and load user provided eBPF code into it.
+
+*   Destroy an BPF execution context and its runtime structures and free the associated memory.
+
+*   Execute eBPF bytecode associated with provied input parameter.
+
+*   Provide information about natively compield code for given BPF context.
+
+*   Load BPF program from the ELF file and install callback to execute it on given ethdev port/queue.
+
+Not currently supported eBPF features
+-------------------------------------
+
+ - JIT
+ - cBPF
+ - tail-pointer call
+ - eBPF MAP
+ - skb
diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/index.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/index.rst
index bbbe7895d..76b079c3f 100644
--- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/index.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/index.rst
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ Programmer's Guide
     vhost_lib
     metrics_lib
     port_hotplug_framework
+    bpf_lib
     source_org
     dev_kit_build_system
     dev_kit_root_make_help
-- 
2.13.6



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