Signed-off-by: Fiona Trahe <fiona.tr...@intel.com>
---
doc/guides/cryptodevs/qat.rst | 12 +++---------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guides/cryptodevs/qat.rst b/doc/guides/cryptodevs/qat.rst
index e6d78ac16..2f233ec9d 100644
--- a/doc/guides/cryptodevs/qat.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/cryptodevs/qat.rst
@@ -120,10 +120,8 @@ Quick instructions are as follows:
make
-.. _qat_kernel_installation:
-
Dependency on the QAT kernel driver
------------------------------------
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
To use the QAT PMD an SRIOV-enabled QAT kernel driver is required. The VF
devices created and initialised by this driver will be used by the QAT PMD.
@@ -132,12 +130,8 @@ Instructions for installation are below, but first an
explanation of the
relationships between the PF/VF devices and the PMDs visible to
DPDK applications.
-
-Acceleration services - cryptography and compression - are provided to DPDK
-applications via PMDs which register to implement the corresponding
-cryptodev and compressdev APIs.
-
-Each QuickAssist VF device can expose one cryptodev PMD and/or one compressdev
PMD.
+Each QuickAssist PF device exposes a number of VF devices. Each VF device can
+enable one cryptodev PMD and/or one compressdev PMD.
These QAT PMDs share the same underlying device and pci-mgmt code, but are
enumerated independently on their respective APIs and appear as independent
devices to applications.
--
2.13.6
