-----Original Message----- From: Kadam, Pallavi <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 9, 2021 4:23 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected]; Zhang, Qi Z <[email protected]>; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; Yigit, Ferruh <[email protected]>; Wu, Jingjing <[email protected]>; Xing, Beilei <[email protected]>; Menon, Ranjit <[email protected]>; Shukla, Shivanshu <[email protected]>; Kadam, Pallavi <[email protected]> Subject: [PATCH v3 3/3] doc: update iavf PMD and 21.11 release notes
Add documentation to support iavf PMD on Windows. Update the release notes for the same. Signed-off-by: Pallavi Kadam <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Ranjit Menon <[email protected]> Ack-by: Shivanshu Shukla <[email protected]> --- doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst b/doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst index fcea8151bf..20b89431a4 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst @@ -616,3 +616,21 @@ 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: + +`http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=146 +87 +<http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=146 +87>`_ + +* 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 ------------- -- 2.31.1.windows.1
