[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 15/15] doc: update doc for avf driver

Wenzhuo Lu wenzhuo.lu at intel.com
Thu Jan 4 06:27:16 CET 2018


From: Jingjing Wu <jingjing.wu at intel.com>

Signed-off-by: Jingjing Wu <jingjing.wu at intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst           | 16 ++++++++++++++--
 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst b/doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst
index 1e83bf6..3adb684 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@
     (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
     OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
-I40E/IXGBE/IGB Virtual Function Driver
-======================================
+Intel Virtual Function Driver
+=============================
 
 Supported Intel® Ethernet Controllers (see the *DPDK Release Notes* for details)
 support the following modes of operation in a virtualized environment:
@@ -93,6 +93,18 @@ and the Physical Function operates on the global resources on behalf of the Virt
 For this out-of-band communication, an SR-IOV enabled NIC provides a memory buffer for each Virtual Function,
 which is called a "Mailbox".
 
+Intel® Ethernet Adaptive Virtual Function
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+Adaptive Virtual Function (AVF) is a SR-IOV Virtual Function with the same device id (8086:1889) on different Intel Ethernet Controller.
+AVF Driver is VF driver which supports for all future Intel devices without requiring a VM update. And since this happens to be an adaptive VF driver,
+every new drop of the VF driver would add more and more advanced features that can be turned on in the VM if the underlying HW device supports those
+advanced features based on a device agnostic way without ever compromising on the base functionality. AVF provides generic hardware interface and
+interface between AVF driver and a compliant PF driver is specified.
+
+Intel products starting Ethernet Controller 710 Series to support Adaptive Virtual Function.
+
+The way to generate Virtual Function is like normal, and the resource of VF assignment depends on the NIC Infrastructure.
+
 The PCIE host-interface of Intel Ethernet Switch FM10000 Series VF infrastructure
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst
index 24b67bb..0672b0e 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst
@@ -41,6 +41,22 @@ New Features
      Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
      =========================================================
 
+   * **Add AVF (Adaptive Virtual Function) net PMD.**
+
+     A new net PMD has been added, which supports Intel® Ethernet Adaptive
+     Virtual Function (AVF) with features list below:
+
+     * Basic Rx/Tx burst
+     * SSE vectorized Rx/Tx burst
+     * Promiscuous mode
+     * MAC/VLAN offload
+     * Checksum offload
+     * TSO offload
+     * Jumbo frame and MTU setting
+     * RSS configuration
+     * stats
+     * Rx/Tx descriptor status
+     * Link status update/event
 
 API Changes
 -----------
-- 
1.9.3



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