From patchwork Fri Jun 7 03:10:40 2019 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: "Wang, Haiyue" X-Patchwork-Id: 54526 Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Delivered-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E52814C8E; Fri, 7 Jun 2019 05:15:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mga05.intel.com (mga05.intel.com [192.55.52.43]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 998DA2C5E for ; Fri, 7 Jun 2019 05:15:13 +0200 (CEST) X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from fmsmga005.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.32]) by fmsmga105.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 06 Jun 2019 20:15:12 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 Received: from npg-dpdk-haiyue-1.sh.intel.com ([10.67.119.207]) by fmsmga005.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 06 Jun 2019 20:15:11 -0700 From: Haiyue Wang To: dev@dpdk.org, qi.z.zhang@intel.com, wenzhuo.lu@intel.com, liang-min.wang@intel.com, daniels@research.att.com Cc: Haiyue Wang Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2019 11:10:40 +0800 Message-Id: <1559877042-95011-2-git-send-email-haiyue.wang@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 In-Reply-To: <1559877042-95011-1-git-send-email-haiyue.wang@intel.com> References: <1559877042-95011-1-git-send-email-haiyue.wang@intel.com> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 2/2] doc: add the description for option pflink_fullchk in ixgbevf X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Add the detail description for this pflink_fullchk option, when it will be used, and it is used for fixing what kind of issue. Signed-off-by: Haiyue Wang --- doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst b/doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst index 975143f..33812a5 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst @@ -82,6 +82,24 @@ To guarantee the constraint, capabilities in dev_conf.rxmode.offloads will be ch fdir_conf->mode will also be checked. +VF Runtime Options +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +The following ``devargs`` options can be enabled at runtime. They must +be passed as part of EAL arguments. For example, + +.. code-block:: console + + testpmd -w af:10.0,pflink_fullchk=1 -- -i + +- ``pflink_fullchk`` (default **0**) + + Toggle behavior to get ixgbevf link status quickly by checking the + mailbox status or not. If set, the VF will check the PF's link status + and the PF's mailbox running status, which will trigger PF's mailbox + interrupt generation. Otherwise, just check PF's link status, then no + mailbox interrupt in PF. + RX Burst Size ^^^^^^^^^^^^^