[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/3] doc: update iavf PMD and 21.11 release notes
From: Pallavi Kadam <hidden>
Date: 2021-09-09 18:08:37
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
Add documentation to support iavf PMD on Windows. Update the release notes for the same. Signed-off-by: Pallavi Kadam <redacted> Reviewed-by: Ranjit Menon <redacted> --- doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst | 17 +++++++++++++++++ doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst b/doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst
index fcea8151bf..27f8b5093e 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst@@ -616,3 +616,20 @@ which belongs to the destination VF on the VM. .. figure:: img/inter_vm_comms.* Inter-VM Communication + + +Windows Support +--------------- + +* IAVF PMD currently is supported only inside Windows guest created on Linux host. + +* Physical PCI resources are exposed as virtual functions into Windows VM using SR-IOV pass through feature. + +* Create a Windows guest on Linux host using KVM hypervisor. Refer to the steps mentioned in the above section "Setting Up a KVM Virtual Machine monitor" + +* In the Host machine, download and install the kernel Ethernet driver from: `https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download-center/home.html?agr=Y&DwnldID=14687`. + +* For Windows guest, install NetUIO driver in place of existing built-in(inbox) Virtual Function driver. + +* To load NetUIO driver, follow the steps mentioned in `dpdk-kmods repository + <https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-kmods/tree/windows/netuio/README.rst>`_.
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst
index 675b573834..f5ae66a0ef 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ New Features * Added bus-level parsing of the devargs syntax. * Kept compatibility with the legacy syntax as parsing fallback. +* **Updated Intel iavf driver.** + + * Added Intel iavf support on Windows. + Removed Items -------------
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