From patchwork Thu Mar 10 12:38:42 2022 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Bruce Richardson X-Patchwork-Id: 108651 X-Patchwork-Delegate: thomas@monjalon.net Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork@inbox.dpdk.org Delivered-To: patchwork@inbox.dpdk.org Received: from mails.dpdk.org (mails.dpdk.org [217.70.189.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D09CBA0093; Thu, 10 Mar 2022 13:39:38 +0100 (CET) Received: from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B513D41177; Thu, 10 Mar 2022 13:39:06 +0100 (CET) Received: from mga06.intel.com (mga06.intel.com [134.134.136.31]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1061741169 for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2022 13:39:04 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=intel.com; i=@intel.com; q=dns/txt; s=Intel; t=1646915945; x=1678451945; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to: references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=7NWzx8y352zznA7MmyqEbQCYTdtFc4J9kx4UOzWQLT0=; b=SNRv4G6AtlYGR9ByuIdI7EKebsWyJ6ww76c68vrw12ux1XgFsmLASGyI 9FQhNJrdQMHn6k0YI1sS6aV4edvLbV8NPXvdR41NvlqX5SZ4T0DtdPbgF qnkRuhZ8yZQj2f/sP26VNLskhaglx+SH1flVgFrHE+JqYSDH1o15Byzs1 vcRHTfJh6b3Kfx4lBwcI/+RxMNSwLHB2BJ+A4wKrdsGCEdWC9k7CFGGW/ BWBolab81DK/0jqhV8OheI7W+yOPB8HKlcU0YO44GjOBSsSecXdh4h0ZW ysPXfAtFvCKjv4dWwticoXckitPPlDd0dluRwQwWiZpjhXU/E0J0b8Uwm Q==; X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6200,9189,10281"; a="315957627" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.90,170,1643702400"; d="scan'208";a="315957627" Received: from orsmga006.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.51]) by orsmga104.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 10 Mar 2022 04:39:04 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.90,170,1643702400"; d="scan'208";a="513970244" Received: from silpixa00399126.ir.intel.com ([10.237.223.34]) by orsmga006.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 10 Mar 2022 04:39:03 -0800 From: Bruce Richardson To: dev@dpdk.org Cc: john.mcnamara@intel.com, Bruce Richardson Subject: [PATCH v2 7/8] doc/linux_gsg: drop reference to KNI Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 12:38:42 +0000 Message-Id: <20220310123843.612207-8-bruce.richardson@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.32.0 In-Reply-To: <20220310123843.612207-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com> References: <20220308145001.529734-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com> <20220310123843.612207-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org The KNI library is disabled by default in DPDK and is already documented in the programmers guide and also in the sample application guide. There are also in-kernel alternatives to it. Therefore, we can drop the (already fairly minimal) reference to it from the Linux GSG. Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson --- doc/guides/linux_gsg/enable_func.rst | 13 ------------- 1 file changed, 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/enable_func.rst b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/enable_func.rst index 0036c542f5..1f19842ddc 100644 --- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/enable_func.rst +++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/enable_func.rst @@ -128,19 +128,6 @@ These generic APIs can work with either TSC or HPET time sources, depending on what is requested by an application call to ``rte_eal_hpet_init()``, if any, and on what is available on the system at runtime. -Loading the DPDK KNI Kernel Module ----------------------------------- - -To run the DPDK Kernel NIC Interface (KNI) sample application, an extra kernel module (the kni module) must be loaded into the running kernel. -The module is found in the kernel/linux sub-directory of the DPDK build directory. -It should be loaded using the insmod command:: - - insmod /kernel/linux/kni/rte_kni.ko - -.. note:: - - See the "Kernel NIC Interface Sample Application" chapter in the *DPDK Sample Applications User Guide* for more details. - Using Linux IOMMU Pass-Through to Run DPDK with Intel\ |reg| VT-d ------------------------------------------------------------------