On 9/24/2020 6:53 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
We should be encouraging the use of vfio_pci for developers, not telling
them to use igb_uio.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org>
---
v2 -- drop change about filename
doc/guides/tools/devbind.rst | 18 +++++++++---------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guides/tools/devbind.rst b/doc/guides/tools/devbind.rst
index a2910e103aab..5dcaf8c207dd 100644
--- a/doc/guides/tools/devbind.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/tools/devbind.rst
@@ -30,11 +30,11 @@ OPTIONS
Print the current status of all known network interfaces.
For each device, it displays the PCI domain, bus, slot and function,
along with a text description of the device. Depending upon whether
the
- device is being used by a kernel driver, the ``igb_uio`` driver, or no
+ device is being used by a kernel driver, the ``vfio_pci`` driver, or no
driver, other relevant information will be displayed:
- the Linux interface name e.g. ``if=eth0``
- - the driver being used e.g. ``drv=igb_uio``
- - any suitable drivers not currently using that device e.g.
``unused=igb_uio``
+ - the driver being used e.g. ``drv=vfio_pci``
+ - any suitable drivers not currently using that device e.g.
``unused=vfio_pci``
NOTE: if this flag is passed along with a bind/unbind option, the
status display will always occur after the other operations have taken
place.
@@ -80,9 +80,9 @@ To display current device status::
dpdk-devbind --status
-To bind eth1 from the current driver and move to use igb_uio::
+To bind eth1 from the current driver and move to use vfio_pci::
- dpdk-devbind --bind=igb_uio eth1
+ dpdk-devbind --bind=vfio_pci eth1
Module name is 'vfio_pci' but driver name is 'vfio-pci', for this document I
guess all instances should be 'vfio-pci'.
To unbind 0000:01:00.0 from using any driver::
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ To bind 0000:02:00.0 and 0000:02:00.1 to the ixgbe kernel driver::
dpdk-devbind -b ixgbe 02:00.0 02:00.1
-To check status of all network ports, assign one to the igb_uio driver and check status again::
+To check status of all network ports, assign one to the vfio_pci driver and
check status again::
# Check the status of the available devices.
dpdk-devbind --status
@@ -105,12 +105,12 @@ To check status of all network ports, assign one to the
igb_uio driver and check
0000:0a:00.0 '82599ES 10-Gigabit' if=eth2 drv=ixgbe unused=
- # Bind the device to igb_uio.
- sudo dpdk-devbind -b igb_uio 0000:0a:00.0
+ # Bind the device to vfio_pci.
+ sudo dpdk-devbind -b vfio_pci 0000:0a:00.0
# Recheck the status of the devices.
dpdk-devbind --status
Network devices using DPDK-compatible driver
============================================
- 0000:0a:00.0 '82599ES 10-Gigabit' drv=igb_uio unused=
+ 0000:0a:00.0 '82599ES 10-Gigabit' drv=vfio_pci unused=
