[PATCH 09/33] doc: update hns3 guide

Dongdong Liu liudongdong3 at huawei.com
Wed Mar 22 08:54:05 CET 2023


Hi Ferruh

Many thanks for your work.

On 2023/3/22 7:59, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> - Move "Link status event Pre-conditions" subsection under
>   "Prerequisites" section
> - Rename "Pre-Installation Configuration" section to "Configuration"
> - Rename "Config File Options" section to "Compilation Options"
> - Rename "Runtime Config Options" section to "Runtime Configuration"
>
> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at amd.com>

Acked-by: Dongdong Liu <liudongdong3 at huawei.com>

Thanks,
Dongdong
> ---
>  doc/guides/nics/hns3.rst | 30 +++++++++++++++---------------
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/hns3.rst b/doc/guides/nics/hns3.rst
> index 791c9cc2ed49..5373ec5a8faf 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/nics/hns3.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/nics/hns3.rst
> @@ -47,11 +47,21 @@ Prerequisites
>  - Follow the DPDK :ref:`Getting Started Guide for Linux <linux_gsg>` to
>    setup the basic DPDK environment.
>
> +Link status event Pre-conditions
> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> -Pre-Installation Configuration
> -------------------------------
> +Firmware 1.8.0.0 and later versions support reporting link changes to the PF.
> +Therefore, to use the LSC for the PF driver, ensure that the firmware version
> +also supports reporting link changes.
> +If the VF driver needs to support LSC, special patch must be added:
> +`<https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3?h=next-20210428&id=18b6e31f8bf4ac7af7b057228f38a5a530378e4e>`_.
> +Note: The patch has been uploaded to 5.13 of the Linux kernel mainline.
> +
> +
> +Configuration
> +-------------
>
> -Config File Options
> +Compilation Options
>  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>  The following options can be modified in the ``config/rte_config.h`` file.
> @@ -60,8 +70,8 @@ The following options can be modified in the ``config/rte_config.h`` file.
>
>    Number of MAX queues reserved for PF.
>
> -Runtime Config Options
> -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> +Runtime Configuration
> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>  - ``rx_func_hint`` (default ``none``)
>
> @@ -130,16 +140,6 @@ Runtime Config Options
>     For example::
>     -a 0000:7d:00.0,mbx_time_limit_ms=600
>
> -Link status event Pre-conditions
> -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> -
> -Firmware 1.8.0.0 and later versions support reporting link changes to the PF.
> -Therefore, to use the LSC for the PF driver, ensure that the firmware version
> -also supports reporting link changes.
> -If the VF driver needs to support LSC, special patch must be added:
> -`<https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3?h=next-20210428&id=18b6e31f8bf4ac7af7b057228f38a5a530378e4e>`_.
> -Note: The patch has been uploaded to 5.13 of the Linux kernel mainline.
> -
>
>  Driver compilation and testing
>  ------------------------------
>


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