From patchwork Fri Jun 10 15:35:35 2022 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Bruce Richardson X-Patchwork-Id: 112663 X-Patchwork-Delegate: maxime.coquelin@redhat.com 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 89D1FA0553; Fri, 10 Jun 2022 17:36:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AA48427E9; Fri, 10 Jun 2022 17:36:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mga04.intel.com (mga04.intel.com [192.55.52.120]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D11BD410E5 for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2022 17:36:20 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=intel.com; i=@intel.com; q=dns/txt; s=Intel; t=1654875381; x=1686411381; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to: references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=vK38fMM9xxb4sPdTcHEBG7ZN+YkDuH7G9pXv7DIMn/I=; b=R7oXZb2YD82R0XoDn1UkddGDVqKN9qrmNf9d6S3jf1rM1CbhQSkLX6i6 JTxboZA/fZkqKkazDbQezwctKnZhxBmfiY8qA3lanjnFUgOmcXl8VnSjO rK/hyfmRIIbgI1aP6zJOcNuYkp58onT9hkFi84VoeCZgFghflauMzfAsi 3P5KYPB4UUFvAqKVWU5dNz+mTg41Rh7DafWcJ2unU43gb7dEH554mRKdp 8z6tvk1H1d00/wKrj4/LaJ0h4Pe9tvs6LoOuXkxmdJVmZyFCWh4COXyJl wcl6nTJu9+e4g8LWOX584MPAiBNx0rRQozS6upw4Q4QkEP69A00OzDIJx w==; X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6400,9594,10374"; a="276440027" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.91,290,1647327600"; d="scan'208";a="276440027" Received: from orsmga008.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.65]) by fmsmga104.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 10 Jun 2022 08:36:02 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.91,290,1647327600"; d="scan'208";a="610761264" Received: from silpixa00401385.ir.intel.com (HELO silpixa00401385.ger.corp.intel.com.) ([10.237.223.181]) by orsmga008.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 10 Jun 2022 08:36:01 -0700 From: Bruce Richardson To: dev@dpdk.org Cc: Maxime Coquelin , Chenbo Xia , Bruce Richardson Subject: [PATCH v3 4/4] doc/prog_guide: add reference to virtio-user from KNI doc Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 16:35:35 +0100 Message-Id: <20220610153535.659076-5-bruce.richardson@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.34.1 In-Reply-To: <20220610153535.659076-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com> References: <20220527162659.129022-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com> <20220610153535.659076-1-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 To help encourage use of virtio-user in place of KNI, put a reference to the relevant howto section at the top of the KNI doc. Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson Acked-by: Chenbo Xia Reviewed-by: Maxime Coquelin --- doc/guides/prog_guide/kernel_nic_interface.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/kernel_nic_interface.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/kernel_nic_interface.rst index 5248f9622b..e021cc69b6 100644 --- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/kernel_nic_interface.rst +++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/kernel_nic_interface.rst @@ -6,6 +6,12 @@ Kernel NIC Interface ==================== +.. note:: + + For an alternative to KNI, that does not require any out-of-tree Linux kernel modules, + or a custom library, see :ref:`virtio_user_as_exception_path`. + + The DPDK Kernel NIC Interface (KNI) allows userspace applications access to the Linux* control plane. The benefits of using the DPDK KNI are: