| commit | f6266b56ecd6bca3074886b37d48cf5c20f37fa3 | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | Matthew Smith <mgsmith@netgate.com> | Mon Mar 04 09:43:45 2019 -0600 |
| committer | Damjan Marion <dmarion@me.com> | Wed Mar 06 11:40:21 2019 +0000 |
| tree | a63689a57a4c142d7afed710d24f6305b20b15d8 | |
| parent | a79271fad186e806060e73131d9128bd9d7ea6a4 [diff] |
vmbus: fix bug that breaks multiple netvsc vdevs VPP supports two DPDK drivers for managing netvsc devices on Azure/Hyper-V. The new netvsc PMD looks a lot like other PCI-based PMDs but it requires recently added kernel support (>=4.17). The older vdev_netvsc is an abstraction that manages the mlx4 VF and tap device underlying the netvsc interface using the failsafe PMD. Distros with older kernels (e.g. RHEL/CentOS 7.x) have to use vdev_netvsc. At startup, netvsc devices are processed and an attempt is made to initialize them for management by the netvsc PMD. If that fails, then vlib_vmbus_bind_to_uio() returns early and the device can be initialized for management by vdev_netvsc. The operation that is supposed to fail if the netvsc PMD cannot be used is registration of the netvsc device type ID with the uio_hv_generic driver. This operation is attempted exactly once so it does not fail for netvsc devices processed after the first one and they end up in a state where they cannot be initialized for use by vdev_netvsc. Only unset uio_new_id_needed if uio_hv_generic registration succeeds. Change-Id: I6be925d422b87ed24e0f4611304cc3a6b07a34fd Signed-off-by: Matthew Smith <mgsmith@netgate.com>
The VPP platform is an extensible framework that provides out-of-the-box production quality switch/router functionality. It is the open source version of Cisco's Vector Packet Processing (VPP) technology: a high performance, packet-processing stack that can run on commodity CPUs.
The benefits of this implementation of VPP are its high performance, proven technology, its modularity and flexibility, and rich feature set.
For more information on VPP and its features please visit the FD.io website and What is VPP? pages.
Details of the changes leading up to this version of VPP can be found under @ref release_notes.
| Directory name | Description |
|---|---|
| build-data | Build metadata |
| build-root | Build output directory |
| doxygen | Documentation generator configuration |
| dpdk | DPDK patches and build infrastructure |
| @ref extras/libmemif | Client library for memif |
| @ref src/examples | VPP example code |
| @ref src/plugins | VPP bundled plugins directory |
| @ref src/svm | Shared virtual memory allocation library |
| src/tests | Standalone tests (not part of test harness) |
| src/vat | VPP API test program |
| @ref src/vlib | VPP application library |
| @ref src/vlibapi | VPP API library |
| @ref src/vlibmemory | VPP Memory management |
| @ref src/vnet | VPP networking |
| @ref src/vpp | VPP application |
| @ref src/vpp-api | VPP application API bindings |
| @ref src/vppinfra | VPP core library |
| @ref src/vpp/api | Not-yet-relocated API bindings |
| test | Unit tests and Python test harness |
In general anyone interested in building, developing or running VPP should consult the VPP wiki for more complete documentation.
In particular, readers are recommended to take a look at [Pulling, Building, Running, Hacking, Pushing](https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP/Pulling,_Building,_Run ning,_Hacking_and_Pushing_VPP_Code) which provides extensive step-by-step coverage of the topic.
For the impatient, some salient information is distilled below.
To install system dependencies, build VPP and then install it, simply run the build script. This should be performed a non-privileged user with sudo access from the project base directory:
./extras/vagrant/build.sh
If you want a more fine-grained approach because you intend to do some development work, the Makefile in the root directory of the source tree provides several convenience shortcuts as make targets that may be of interest. To see the available targets run:
make
The directory extras/vagrant contains a VagrantFile and supporting scripts to bootstrap a working VPP inside a Vagrant-managed Virtual Machine. This VM can then be used to test concepts with VPP or as a development platform to extend VPP. Some obvious caveats apply when using a VM for VPP since its performance will never match that of bare metal; if your work is timing or performance sensitive, consider using bare metal in addition or instead of the VM.
For this to work you will need a working installation of Vagrant. Instructions for this can be found [on the Setting up Vagrant wiki page] (https://wiki.fd.io/view/DEV/Setting_Up_Vagrant).
Several modules provide documentation, see @subpage user_doc for more end-user-oriented information. Also see @subpage dev_doc for developer notes.
Visit the VPP wiki for details on more advanced building strategies and other development notes.
There is PyDoc generated documentation available for the VPP test framework. See @ref test_framework_doc for details.