[v7,04/14] doc: remove references to make from vdpadevs guides
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Make is no longer supported for compiling DPDK, references are now
removed in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ciara Power <ciara.power@intel.com>
Acked-by: Matan Azrad <matan@nvidia.com>
---
v7: Modified compilation options to detail meson option ibverbs_link.
---
doc/guides/vdpadevs/ifc.rst | 13 -------------
doc/guides/vdpadevs/mlx5.rst | 34 ++++++++++++----------------------
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
@@ -11,19 +11,6 @@ directly by DMA. Besides, it supports dirty page logging and device state
report/restore, this driver enables its vDPA functionality.
-Pre-Installation Configuration
-------------------------------
-
-Config File Options
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-The following option can be modified in the ``config`` file.
-
-- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_IFC_PMD`` (default ``y`` for linux)
-
- Toggle compilation of the ``librte_pmd_ifc`` driver.
-
-
IFCVF vDPA Implementation
-------------------------
@@ -14,9 +14,7 @@ SR-IOV context.
.. note::
- Due to external dependencies, this driver is disabled in default
- configuration of the "make" build. It can be enabled with
- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_MLX5_VDPA_PMD=y`` or by using "meson" build system which
+ This driver is enabled automatically when using "meson" build system which
will detect dependencies.
@@ -62,16 +60,13 @@ Prerequisites
- Mellanox OFED version: **5.0**
see :doc:`../../nics/mlx5` guide for more Mellanox OFED details.
-Compilation options
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+Compilation option
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-These options can be modified in the ``.config`` file.
+The meson option ``ibverbs_link`` is **shared** by default,
+but can be configured to have the following values:
-- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_MLX5_VDPA_PMD`` (default **n**)
-
- Toggle compilation of librte_pmd_mlx5 itself.
-
-- ``CONFIG_RTE_IBVERBS_LINK_DLOPEN`` (default **n**)
+- ``dlopen``
Build PMD with additional code to make it loadable without hard
dependencies on **libibverbs** nor **libmlx5**, which may not be installed
@@ -79,28 +74,23 @@ These options can be modified in the ``.config`` file.
In this mode, their presence is still required for it to run properly,
however their absence won't prevent a DPDK application from starting (with
- ``CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_SHARED_LIB`` disabled) and they won't show up as
- missing with ``ldd(1)``.
+ DPDK shared build disabled) and they won't show up as missing with ``ldd(1)``.
It works by moving these dependencies to a purpose-built rdma-core "glue"
- plug-in which must either be installed in a directory whose name is based
- on ``CONFIG_RTE_EAL_PMD_PATH`` suffixed with ``-glue`` if set, or in a
- standard location for the dynamic linker (e.g. ``/lib``) if left to the
- default empty string (``""``).
+ plug-in which must be installed in a directory whose name is based
+ on ``RTE_EAL_PMD_PATH`` suffixed with ``-glue``.
This option has no performance impact.
-- ``CONFIG_RTE_IBVERBS_LINK_STATIC`` (default **n**)
+- ``static``
Embed static flavor of the dependencies **libibverbs** and **libmlx5**
in the PMD shared library or the executable static binary.
.. note::
- For BlueField, target should be set to ``arm64-bluefield-linux-gcc``. This
- will enable ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_MLX5_VDPA_PMD`` and set
- ``RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE`` to 64. Default armv8a configuration of make build and
- meson build set it to 128 then brings performance degradation.
+ Default armv8a configuration of meson build sets ``RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE``
+ to 128 then brings performance degradation.
Run-time configuration
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~