[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 11/11] doc: add mempool and octeontx mempool device

Santosh Shukla santosh.shukla at caviumnetworks.com
Thu Aug 24 15:29:03 CEST 2017


This commit adds a section to the docs listing the mempool
device PMDs available.

It then adds the octeontx fpavf mempool PMD to the listed mempool
devices.

Signed-off-by: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla at caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob at caviumnetworks.com>
---
 MAINTAINERS                     |   6 ++
 doc/guides/index.rst            |   1 +
 doc/guides/mempool/index.rst    |  40 +++++++++++++
 doc/guides/mempool/octeontx.rst | 127 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 174 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 doc/guides/mempool/index.rst
 create mode 100644 doc/guides/mempool/octeontx.rst

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index a0cd75e15..4122c8099 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -337,6 +337,12 @@ F: drivers/net/liquidio/
 F: doc/guides/nics/liquidio.rst
 F: doc/guides/nics/features/liquidio.ini
 
+Cavium Octeontx Mempool
+M: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla at caviumnetworks.com>
+F: drivers/mempool/octeontx
+F: doc/guides/mempool/index.rst
+F: doc/guides/mempool/octeontx.rst
+
 Chelsio cxgbe
 M: Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy at chelsio.com>
 F: drivers/net/cxgbe/
diff --git a/doc/guides/index.rst b/doc/guides/index.rst
index 63716b095..98f4b7aab 100644
--- a/doc/guides/index.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/index.rst
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ DPDK documentation
    nics/index
    cryptodevs/index
    eventdevs/index
+   mempool/index
    xen/index
    contributing/index
    rel_notes/index
diff --git a/doc/guides/mempool/index.rst b/doc/guides/mempool/index.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..38bbca1c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/guides/mempool/index.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+..  BSD LICENSE
+    Copyright(c) 2017 Cavium Inc. All rights reserved.
+
+    Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+    modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+    are met:
+
+    * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+    * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
+    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in
+    the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
+    distribution.
+    * Neither the name of Intel Corporation nor the names of its
+    contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived
+    from this software without specific prior written permission.
+
+    THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
+    "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
+    LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR
+    A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT
+    OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
+    SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT
+    LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
+    DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
+    THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
+    (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
+    OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+
+Mempool Device driver
+=====================
+
+The following are a list of mempool PMDs, which can be used from an
+application through the mempool API.
+
+.. toctree::
+    :maxdepth: 2
+    :numbered:
+
+    octeontx
diff --git a/doc/guides/mempool/octeontx.rst b/doc/guides/mempool/octeontx.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..74999009c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/guides/mempool/octeontx.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,127 @@
+..  BSD LICENSE
+    Copyright (C) Cavium, Inc. 2017. All rights reserved.
+
+    Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+    modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+    are met:
+
+    * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+    * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
+    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in
+    the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
+    distribution.
+    * Neither the name of Cavium, Inc nor the names of its
+    contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived
+    from this software without specific prior written permission.
+
+    THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
+    "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
+    LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR
+    A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT
+    OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
+    SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT
+    LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
+    DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
+    THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
+    (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
+    OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+
+OCTEONTX FPAVF Mempool Driver
+==============================
+
+Features OCTEONTX FPAVF PMD (**librte_mempool_octeontx**) is mempool
+driver for offload mempool device found in **Cavium OCTEONTX** SoC
+family.
+
+More information can be found at `Cavium, Inc Official Website
+<http://www.cavium.com/OCTEON-TX_ARM_Processors.html>`_.
+
+Feature
+--------
+
+Features of the OCTEONTX FPAVF PMD are:
+- 32 SR-IOV Virtual functions
+- 32 Pools
+- HW mempool manager
+
+Supported OCTEONTX SoCs
+-----------------------
+- CN83xx
+
+Prerequisites
+-------------
+
+There are three main pre-perquisites for executing FPAVF PMD on a OCTEONTX
+compatible board:
+
+1. **OCTEONTX Linux kernel PF driver for Network acceleration HW blocks**
+
+   The OCTEONTX Linux kernel drivers (including the required PF driver for the
+   SSOVF) are available on Github at `octeontx-kmod <https://github.com/caviumnetworks/octeontx-kmod>`_
+   along with build, install and dpdk usage instructions.
+
+2. **ARM64 Tool Chain**
+
+   For example, the *aarch64* Linaro Toolchain, which can be obtained from
+   `here <https://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/4.9-2017.01/aarch64-linux-gnu>`_.
+
+3. **Rootfile system**
+
+   Any *aarch64* supporting filesystem can be used. For example,
+   Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily) or 16.04 LTS (Xenial) userland which can be obtained
+   from `<http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-base/releases/16.04/release/ubuntu-base-16.04.1-base-arm64.tar.gz>`_.
+
+   As an alternative method, SSOVF PMD can also be executed using images provided
+   as part of SDK from Cavium. The SDK includes all the above prerequisites necessary
+   to bring up a OCTEONTX board.
+
+   SDK and related information can be obtained from: `Cavium support site <https://support.cavium.com/>`_.
+
+- Follow the DPDK :ref:`Getting Started Guide for Linux <linux_gsg>` to setup the basic DPDK environment.
+
+Pre-Installation Configuration
+------------------------------
+
+Config File Options
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The following options can be modified in the ``config`` file.
+Please note that enabling debugging options may affect system performance.
+
+- ``CONFIG_RTE_MBUF_DEFAULT_MEMPOOL_OPS`` ( set to ``octeontx_fpavf``)
+
+  Set default mempool ops to octeontx_fpavf.
+
+- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_OCTEONTX_MEMPOOL`` (default ``y``)
+
+  Toggle compilation of the ``librte_mempool_octeontx`` driver.
+
+- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_OCTEONTX_MEMPOOL_DEBUG`` (default ``n``)
+
+  Toggle display of generic debugging messages
+
+Driver Compilation
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+To compile the OCTEONTX FPAVF MEMPOOL PMD for Linux arm64 gcc target, run the
+following ``make`` command:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+   cd <DPDK-source-directory>
+   make config T=arm64-thunderx-linuxapp-gcc test-build
+
+
+Initialization
+--------------
+
+The octeontx fpavf mempool initialization similar to other mempool
+drivers like ring. However user need to pass --base-virtaddr as
+command line input to application example test_mempool.c application.
+
+Example:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+    ./build/app/test -c 0xf --socket-mem=1024,0 --base-virtaddr=0x100000000000 --mbuf-pool-ops="octeontx_fpavf" --log-level=8
-- 
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