New upstream version 18.08

[deb_dpdk.git] / doc / guides / prog_guide / poll_mode_drv.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/poll_mode_drv.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/poll_mode_drv.rst
index e5d0187..b2cf483 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/poll_mode_drv.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/poll_mode_drv.rst
@@ -296,22 +296,37 @@ described in the mbuf API documentation and in the in :ref:`Mbuf Library
 Per-Port and Per-Queue Offloads
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-In the DPDK offload API, offloads are divided into per-port and per-queue offloads.
+In the DPDK offload API, offloads are divided into per-port and per-queue offloads as follows:
+
+* A per-queue offloading can be enabled on a queue and disabled on another queue at the same time.
+* A pure per-port offload is the one supported by device but not per-queue type.
+* A pure per-port offloading can't be enabled on a queue and disabled on another queue at the same time.
+* A pure per-port offloading must be enabled or disabled on all queues at the same time.
+* Any offloading is per-queue or pure per-port type, but can't be both types at same devices.
+* Port capabilities = per-queue capabilities + pure per-port capabilities.
+* Any supported offloading can be enabled on all queues.
+
 The different offloads capabilities can be queried using ``rte_eth_dev_info_get()``.
+The ``dev_info->[rt]x_queue_offload_capa`` returned from ``rte_eth_dev_info_get()`` includes all per-queue offloading capabilities.
+The ``dev_info->[rt]x_offload_capa`` returned from ``rte_eth_dev_info_get()`` includes all pure per-port and per-queue offloading capabilities.
 Supported offloads can be either per-port or per-queue.
 
 Offloads are enabled using the existing ``DEV_TX_OFFLOAD_*`` or ``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_*`` flags.
-Per-port offload configuration is set using ``rte_eth_dev_configure``.
-Per-queue offload configuration is set using ``rte_eth_rx_queue_setup`` and ``rte_eth_tx_queue_setup``.
-To enable per-port offload, the offload should be set on both device configuration and queue setup.
-In case of a mixed configuration the queue setup shall return with an error.
-To enable per-queue offload, the offload can be set only on the queue setup.
-Offloads which are not enabled are disabled by default.
-
-For an application to use the Tx offloads API it should set the ``ETH_TXQ_FLAGS_IGNORE`` flag in the ``txq_flags`` field located in ``rte_eth_txconf`` struct.
-In such cases it is not required to set other flags in ``txq_flags``.
-For an application to use the Rx offloads API it should set the ``ignore_offload_bitfield`` bit in the ``rte_eth_rxmode`` struct.
-In such cases it is not required to set other bitfield offloads in the ``rxmode`` struct.
+Any requested offloading by an application must be within the device capabilities.
+Any offloading is disabled by default if it is not set in the parameter
+``dev_conf->[rt]xmode.offloads`` to ``rte_eth_dev_configure()`` and
+``[rt]x_conf->offloads`` to ``rte_eth_[rt]x_queue_setup()``.
+
+If any offloading is enabled in ``rte_eth_dev_configure()`` by an application,
+it is enabled on all queues no matter whether it is per-queue or
+per-port type and no matter whether it is set or cleared in
+``[rt]x_conf->offloads`` to ``rte_eth_[rt]x_queue_setup()``.
+
+If a per-queue offloading hasn't been enabled in ``rte_eth_dev_configure()``,
+it can be enabled or disabled in ``rte_eth_[rt]x_queue_setup()`` for individual queue.
+A newly added offloads in ``[rt]x_conf->offloads`` to ``rte_eth_[rt]x_queue_setup()`` input by application
+is the one which hasn't been enabled in ``rte_eth_dev_configure()`` and is requested to be enabled
+in ``rte_eth_[rt]x_queue_setup()``. It must be per-queue type, otherwise trigger an error log.
 
 Poll Mode Driver API
 --------------------
@@ -345,6 +360,27 @@ Ethernet Device API
 
 The Ethernet device API exported by the Ethernet PMDs is described in the *DPDK API Reference*.
 
+.. _ethernet_device_standard_device_arguments:
+
+Ethernet Device Standard Device Arguments
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Standard Ethernet device arguments allow for a set of commonly used arguments/
+parameters which are applicable to all Ethernet devices to be available to for
+specification of specific device and for passing common configuration
+parameters to those ports.
+
+* ``representor`` for a device which supports the creation of representor ports
+  this argument allows user to specify which switch ports to enable port
+  representors for.::
+
+   -w BDBF,representor=0
+   -w BDBF,representor=[0,4,6,9]
+   -w BDBF,representor=[0-31]
+
+Note: PMDs are not required to support the standard device arguments and users
+should consult the relevant PMD documentation to see support devargs.
+
 Extended Statistics API
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~