Updated the doc and release notes on the support for requesting more queues.
Signed-off-by: Zhirun Yan <zhirun....@intel.com> --- doc/guides/nics/i40e.rst | 16 +++++++++------- doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_02.rst | 8 ++++++++ 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/i40e.rst b/doc/guides/nics/i40e.rst index bfacbd117..70143d6a0 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/i40e.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/i40e.rst @@ -129,13 +129,15 @@ Please note that enabling debugging options may affect system performance. Runtime Config Options ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- ``Number of Queues per VF`` (default ``4``) - - The number of queue per VF is determined by its host PF. If the PCI address - of an i40e PF is aaaa:bb.cc, the number of queues per VF can be configured - with EAL parameter like -w aaaa:bb.cc,queue-num-per-vf=n. The value n can be - 1, 2, 4, 8 or 16. If no such parameter is configured, the number of queues - per VF is 4 by default. +- ``Reserved number of Queues per VF`` (default ``4``) + + The number of reserved queue per VF is determined by its host PF. If the + PCI address of an i40e PF is aaaa:bb.cc, the number of reserved queues per + VF can be configured with EAL parameter like -w aaaa:bb.cc,queue-num-per-vf=n. + The value n can be 1, 2, 4, 8 or 16. If no such parameter is configured, the + number of reserved queues per VF is 4 by default. If VF request more than + reserved queues per VF, PF will able to allocate max to 16 queues after a VF + reset. - ``Support multiple driver`` (default ``disable``) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_02.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_02.rst index 8deb68b9a..524e731b2 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_02.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_02.rst @@ -60,6 +60,14 @@ New Features * Added the handler to get firmware version string. * Added support for multicast filtering. +* **Added dynamic queues allocation support for i40e VF.** + + Previously, available queues of VF is reserved by PF at initialize stage. + Now both DPDK PF and Kernel PF (>=2.1.14) will support dynamic queue + allocation. At runtime, when VF request more queue number exceed the initial + reserved amount, PF can allocate up to 16 queues as the request after a VF + reset. + Removed Items ------------- -- 2.17.1
