> -----Original Message----- > From: Rasesh Mody <rm...@marvell.com> > Sent: Monday, August 5, 2019 2:50 PM > To: dev@dpdk.org; Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> > Cc: Rasesh Mody <rm...@marvell.com>; John McNamara > <john.mcnam...@intel.com>; Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran > <jer...@marvell.com>; GR-Everest-DPDK-Dev <GR-Everest-DPDK- > d...@marvell.com>; sta...@dpdk.org > Subject: [PATCH v2] doc: add a co-existence consideration for qede PMD > > Add and update co-existence considerations for qede PMD > > v2: > Made co-existence considerations for QLogic adapters more specific > > Cc: sta...@dpdk.org > > Signed-off-by: Rasesh Mody <rm...@marvell.com>
Applied to dpdk-next-net-mrvl/master. Thanks > --- > doc/guides/nics/qede.rst | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++--- > 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/qede.rst b/doc/guides/nics/qede.rst index > c0a383381..05a6aef57 100644 > --- a/doc/guides/nics/qede.rst > +++ b/doc/guides/nics/qede.rst > @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ QEDE Poll Mode Driver > > The QEDE poll mode driver library (**librte_pmd_qede**) implements > support for **QLogic FastLinQ QL4xxxx 10G/25G/40G/50G/100G Intelligent > Ethernet Adapters (IEA) and Converged Network Adapters (CNA)** family of > adapters as well as SR-IOV virtual functions (VF). It is supported on -several > standard Linux distros like RHEL7.x, SLES12.x and Ubuntu. > +several standard Linux distros like RHEL, SLES, Ubuntu etc. > It is compile-tested under FreeBSD OS. > > More information can be found at `QLogic Corporation's Website @@ -47,8 > +47,27 @@ Non-supported Features > > Co-existence considerations > --------------------------- > -- QLogic FastLinQ QL4xxxx CNAs can have both NIC and Storage > personalities. However, coexistence with storage protocol drivers (qedi and > qedf) is not supported on the same adapter. So storage personality has to be > disabled on that adapter when used in DPDK applications. > -- For SR-IOV case, qede PMD will be used to bind to SR-IOV VF device and > Linux native kernel driver (qede) will be attached to SR-IOV PF. > + > +- QLogic FastLinQ QL4xxxx CNAs support Ethernet, RDMA, iSCSI and FCoE > + functionalities. These functionalities are supported using > + QLogic Linux kernel drivers qed, qede, qedr, qedi and qedf. DPDK is > + supported on these adapters using qede PMD. > + > +- When SR-IOV is not enabled on the adapter, > + QLogic Linux kernel drivers (qed, qede, qedr, qedi and qedf) and qede > + PMD can’t be attached to different PFs on a given QLogic FastLinQ > + QL4xxx adapter. > + A given adapter needs to be completely used by DPDK or Linux drivers > + Before binding DPDK driver to one or more PFs on the adapter, > + please make sure to unbind Linux drivers from all PFs of the adapter. > + If there are multiple adapters on the system, one or more adapters > + can be used by DPDK driver completely and other adapters can be used > + by Linux drivers completely. > + > +- When SR-IOV is enabled on the adapter, > + Linux kernel drivers (qed, qede, qedr, qedi and qedf) can be bound > + to the PFs of a given adapter and either qede PMD or Linux drivers > + (qed and qede) can be bound to the VFs of the adapter. > > Supported QLogic Adapters > ------------------------- > -- > 2.18.0
