[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] doc: fix release notes for 16.11

2016-11-13 Thread Thomas Monjalon 
2016-11-11 12:04, John McNamara:
> Fix grammar, spelling and formatting of DPDK 16.11 release notes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John McNamara 

Applied, thanks

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] doc: fix release notes for 16.11

2016-11-11 Thread Shreyansh Jain 
On Friday 11 November 2016 05:34 PM, John McNamara wrote:
[...]
> -* **Improved device/driver hierarchy and generalized hotplugging**
> +* **Improved device/driver hierarchy and generalized hotplugging.**
>
> -  Device and driver relationship has been restructured by introducing generic
> -  classes. This paves way for having PCI, VDEV and other device types as
> -  just instantiated objects rather than classes in themselves. Hotplugging 
> too
> -  has been generalized into EAL so that ethernet or crypto devices can use 
> the
> +  The device and driver relationship has been restructured by introducing 
> generic
> +  classes. This paves the way for having PCI, VDEV and other device types as
> +  instantiated objects rather than classes in themselves. Hotplugging has 
> also
> +  been generalized into EAL so that Ethernet or crypto devices can use the
>common infrastructure.
>
> -  * removed ``pmd_type`` as way of segregation of devices
> -  * moved ``numa_node`` and ``devargs`` into ``rte_driver`` from
> +  * Removed ``pmd_type`` as a way of segregation of devices.
> +  * Moved ``numa_node`` and ``devargs`` into ``rte_driver`` from
>  ``rte_pci_driver``. These can now be used by any instantiated object of
>  ``rte_driver``.
> -  * added ``rte_device`` class and all PCI and VDEV devices inherit from it
> -  * renamed devinit/devuninit handlers to probe/remove to make it more
> -semantically correct with respect to device<=>driver relationship
> -  * moved hotplugging support to EAL. Hereafter, PCI and vdev can use the
> +  * Added ``rte_device`` class and all PCI and VDEV devices inherit from it
> +  * Renamed devinit/devuninit handlers to probe/remove to make it more
> +semantically correct with respect to the device <=> driver relationship.
> +  * Moved hotplugging support to EAL. Hereafter, PCI and vdev can use the
>  APIs ``rte_eal_dev_attach`` and ``rte_eal_dev_detach``.
> -  * helpers and support macros have been renamed to make them more synonymous
> +  * Renamed helpers and support macros to make them more synonymous
>  with their device types
> -(e.g. ``PMD_REGISTER_DRIVER`` => ``RTE_PMD_REGISTER_PCI``)
> +(e.g. ``PMD_REGISTER_DRIVER`` => ``RTE_PMD_REGISTER_PCI``).
>* Device naming functions have been generalized from ethdev and cryptodev
>  to EAL. ``rte_eal_pci_device_name`` has been introduced for obtaining
>  unique device name from PCI Domain-BDF description.

If it is possible to have a Reviewed-by for a particular part of a patch:

Reviewed-by: Shreyansh Jain

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] doc: fix release notes for 16.11

2016-11-11 Thread John McNamara 
Fix grammar, spelling and formatting of DPDK 16.11 release notes.

Signed-off-by: John McNamara 
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_11.rst | 171 -
 1 file changed, 83 insertions(+), 88 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_11.rst 
b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_11.rst
index 365b5a3..6f40f59 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_11.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_11.rst
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ New Features
   * Added a new function ``rte_pktmbuf_read()`` to read the packet data from an
 mbuf chain, linearizing if required.
   * Added a new function ``rte_net_get_ptype()`` to parse an Ethernet packet
-in an mbuf chain and retrieve its packet type by software.
+in an mbuf chain and retrieve its packet type from software.
   * Added new functions ``rte_get_ptype_*()`` to dump a packet type as a 
string.

 * **Improved offloads support in mbuf.**
@@ -52,102 +52,108 @@ New Features
   * Added new Rx checksum flags in mbufs to describe more states: unknown,
 good, bad, or not present (useful for virtual drivers). This modification
 was done for IP and L4.
-  * Added a new RX LRO mbuf flag, used when packets are coalesced. This
+  * Added a new Rx LRO mbuf flag, used when packets are coalesced. This
 flag indicates that the segment size of original packets is known.

-* **Added vhost-user dequeue zero copy support**
+* **Added vhost-user dequeue zero copy support.**

-  The copy in dequeue path is saved, which is meant to improve the performance.
+  The copy in the dequeue path is avoided in order to improve the performance.
   In the VM2VM case, the boost is quite impressive. The bigger the packet size,
-  the bigger performance boost you may get. However, for VM2NIC case, there
-  are some limitations, yet the boost is not that impressive as VM2VM case.
+  the bigger performance boost you may get. However, for the VM2NIC case, there
+  are some limitations, so the boost is not as  impressive as the VM2VM case.
   It may even drop quite a bit for small packets.

-  For such reason, this feature is disabled by default. It can be enabled when
-  ``RTE_VHOST_USER_DEQUEUE_ZERO_COPY`` flag is given. Check the vhost section
-  at programming guide for more information.
+  For that reason, this feature is disabled by default. It can be enabled when
+  the ``RTE_VHOST_USER_DEQUEUE_ZERO_COPY`` flag is set. Check the VHost section
+  of the Programming Guide for more information.

 * **Added vhost-user indirect descriptors support.**

-  If indirect descriptor feature is negotiated, each packet sent by the guest
-  will take exactly one slot in the enqueue virtqueue. Without the feature, in
-  current version, even 64 bytes packets take two slots with Virtio PMD on 
guest
+  If the indirect descriptor feature is enabled, each packet sent by the guest
+  will take exactly one slot in the enqueue virtqueue. Without this feature, 
as in
+  the current version, even 64 bytes packets take two slots with Virtio PMD on 
guest
   side.

   The main impact is better performance for 0% packet loss use-cases, as it
   behaves as if the virtqueue size was enlarged, so more packets can be 
buffered
-  in case of system perturbations. On the downside, small performance 
degradation
-  is measured when running micro-benchmarks.
+  in the case of system perturbations. On the downside, small performance 
degradations
+  were measured when running micro-benchmarks.

 * **Added vhost PMD xstats.**

-  Added extended statistics to vhost PMD from per port perspective.
+  Added extended statistics to vhost PMD from a per port perspective.

 * **Supported offloads with virtio.**

-  * Rx/Tx checksums
-  * LRO
-  * TSO
+  Added support for the following offloads in virtio:
+
+  * Rx/Tx checksums.
+  * LRO.
+  * TSO.

 * **Added virtio NEON support for ARM.**

+  Added NEON support for ARM based virtio.
+
 * **Updated the ixgbe base driver.**

   Updated the ixgbe base driver, including the following changes:

-  * add X550em_a 10G PHY support
-  * support flow control auto negotiation for X550em_a 1G PHY
-  * add X550em_a FW ALEF support
-  * increase mailbox version to ixgbe_mbox_api_13
-  * add two MAC ops for Hyper-V support
+  * Added X550em_a 10G PHY support.
+  * Added support for flow control auto negotiation for X550em_a 1G PHY.
+  * Added X550em_a FW ALEF support.
+  * Increased mailbox version to ``ixgbe_mbox_api_13``.
+  * Added two MAC operations for Hyper-V support.

-* **Added API's for VF management to the ixgbe PMD.**
+* **Added APIs for VF management to the ixgbe PMD.**

-  Eight new API's have been added to the ixgbe PMD for VF management from the 
PF.
+  Eight new APIs have been added to the ixgbe PMD for VF management from the 
PF.
   The declarations for the API's can be found in ``rte_pmd_ixgbe.h``.

 * **Updated the enic driver.**

-  * Use interrupt for link status checking instead of polling
-  * More flow director modes on UCS