[dpdk-dev] doc: update i40e guide

Message ID 1517715657-17546-1-git-send-email-beilei.xing@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: Helin Zhang
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Xing, Beilei Feb. 4, 2018, 3:40 a.m. UTC
  This patch updates the i40e guide with new device
parameter support-multi-driver.

Signed-off-by: Beilei Xing <beilei.xing@intel.com>
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
---
 doc/guides/nics/i40e.rst | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
  

Comments

Kovacevic, Marko Feb. 6, 2018, 1:41 p.m. UTC | #1
> This patch updates the i40e guide with new device parameter support-multi-
> driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Beilei Xing <beilei.xing@intel.com>
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
>  doc/guides/nics/i40e.rst | 11 +++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> 

Acked-by: Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>
  
John McNamara Feb. 7, 2018, 4:06 p.m. UTC | #2
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xing, Beilei
> Sent: Sunday, February 4, 2018 3:41 AM
> To: Mcnamara, John <john.mcnamara@intel.com>; dev@dpdk.org; Wu, Jingjing
> <jingjing.wu@intel.com>
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> Subject: [PATCH] doc: update i40e guide
> 
> This patch updates the i40e guide with new device parameter support-multi-
> driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Beilei Xing <beilei.xing@intel.com>


Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
  
Zhang, Helin Feb. 8, 2018, 2:43 a.m. UTC | #3
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Mcnamara, John
> Sent: Thursday, February 8, 2018 12:07 AM
> To: Xing, Beilei; dev@dpdk.org; Wu, Jingjing
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: update i40e guide
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Xing, Beilei
> > Sent: Sunday, February 4, 2018 3:41 AM
> > To: Mcnamara, John <john.mcnamara@intel.com>; dev@dpdk.org; Wu,
> > Jingjing <jingjing.wu@intel.com>
> > Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> > Subject: [PATCH] doc: update i40e guide
> >
> > This patch updates the i40e guide with new device parameter
> > support-multi- driver.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Beilei Xing <beilei.xing@intel.com>
> 
> 
> Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Applied to dpdk-next-net-intel, thanks!

/Helin
>
  

Patch

diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/i40e.rst b/doc/guides/nics/i40e.rst
index 166f447..a83af6d 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/i40e.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/i40e.rst
@@ -136,6 +136,17 @@  Runtime Config Options
   1, 2, 4, 8 or 16. If no such parameter is configured, the number of queues
   per VF is 4 by default.
 
+- ``Support multiple driver`` (default ``disable``)
+
+  There was a multiple driver support issue during use of 700 series Ethernet
+  Adapter with both Linux kernel and DPDK PMD. To fix this issue, ``devargs``
+  parameter ``support-multi-driver`` is introduced, for example::
+
+    -w 84:00.0,support-multi-driver=1
+
+  With the above configuration, DPDK PMD will not change global registers, and
+  will switch PF interrupt from IntN to Int0 to avoid interrupt conflict between
+  DPDK and Linux Kernel.
 
 Driver compilation and testing
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