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authorIan Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>2019-12-03 14:52:57 +0000
committerIan Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>2019-12-04 20:51:57 +0000
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dpdk: Update to use DPDK 19.11.
This commit adds support for DPDK v19.11, it includes the following changes. 1. travis: Enable compilation and linkage with dpdk 19.11. 2. sparse: Remove dpdk network headers copies. https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1185256/ 3. dpdk: Migrate to new PDUMP API. https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1192971/ 4. netdev-dpdk: Prefix network structures with rte_. https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1109733/ 5. netdev-dpdk: Update by new color definitions. https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1086089/ 6. docs: Update docs to reference 19.11. 7. docs: Add note regarding hotplug and igb_uio requirements. For credit all authors of the original commits to 'dpdk-latest' with the above changes been added as co-authors for this commmit. Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com> Co-authored-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org> Co-authored-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org> Signed-off-by: Ophir Munk <ophirmu@mellanox.com> Co-authored-by: Ophir Munk <ophirmu@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com> Acked-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org> Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst10
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst b/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst
index 7a8fd6bf6..dbf88ec43 100644
--- a/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst
+++ b/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Build requirements
In addition to the requirements described in :doc:`general`, building Open
vSwitch with DPDK will require the following:
-- DPDK 18.11.5
+- DPDK 19.11
- A `DPDK supported NIC`_
@@ -71,9 +71,9 @@ Install DPDK
#. Download the `DPDK sources`_, extract the file and set ``DPDK_DIR``::
$ cd /usr/src/
- $ wget http://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-18.11.5.tar.xz
- $ tar xf dpdk-18.11.5.tar.xz
- $ export DPDK_DIR=/usr/src/dpdk-stable-18.11.5
+ $ wget https://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-19.11.tar.xz
+ $ tar xf dpdk-19.11.tar.xz
+ $ export DPDK_DIR=/usr/src/dpdk-19.11
$ cd $DPDK_DIR
#. (Optional) Configure DPDK as a shared library
@@ -673,7 +673,7 @@ Limitations
release notes`_.
.. _DPDK release notes:
- https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.html
+ https://doc.dpdk.org/guides-19.11/rel_notes/release_19_11.html
- Upper bound MTU: DPDK device drivers differ in how the L2 frame for a
given MTU value is calculated e.g. i40e driver includes 2 x vlan headers in