[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: fix a typo in ntb guide

Wu, Jingjing jingjing.wu at intel.com
Mon Dec 23 03:39:55 CET 2019



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Li, Xiaoyun <xiaoyun.li at intel.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 11:20 PM
> To: Wu, Jingjing <jingjing.wu at intel.com>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Li, Xiaoyun <xiaoyun.li at intel.com>; stable at dpdk.org
> Subject: [PATCH] doc: fix a typo in ntb guide
> 
> In prerequisites of ntb guide, the correct flag when loading igb_uio
> module should be `wc_activate=1`, not `wc_active=1`.
> 
> Fixes: 11b5c7daf019 ("raw/ntb: add enqueue and dequeue functions")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xiaoyun Li <xiaoyun.li at intel.com>
Acked-by: Jingjing Wu <jingjing.wu at intel.com>

> ---
>  doc/guides/rawdevs/ntb.rst | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rawdevs/ntb.rst b/doc/guides/rawdevs/ntb.rst
> index 58472135f..aa7d80964 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rawdevs/ntb.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rawdevs/ntb.rst
> @@ -52,11 +52,11 @@ NTB PMD needs kernel PCI driver to support write combining (WC) to
> get
>  better performance. The difference will be more than 10 times.
>  To enable WC, there are 2 ways.
> 
> -- Insert igb_uio with ``wc_active=1`` flag if use igb_uio driver.
> +- Insert igb_uio with ``wc_activate=1`` flag if use igb_uio driver.
> 
>  .. code-block:: console
> 
> -  insmod igb_uio.ko wc_active=1
> +  insmod igb_uio.ko wc_activate=1
> 
>  - Enable WC for NTB device's Bar 2 and Bar 4 (Mapped memory) manually.
>    The reference is https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/x86/mtrr.html
> --
> 2.17.1



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