This is virtual PMD which communicates with COMBO-80G and COMBO-100G cards through sze2 layer. Communication with COMBO card is managed through interface provided by libsze2 library and kernel modules (combov3, szedata2_cv3).
To compile and use PMD, it is necessary to have libsze2 library installed and kernel modules (combov3, szedata2_cv3) loaded. Therefore in default configuration PMD compilation is disabled. To compile szedata2 PMD, it is necessary to enable CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_SZEDATA2=y. We have done performance measurement. Results are available in pdf file: https://www.liberouter.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/pmd_szedata2_dpdk_measurement.pdf Measurement was not done with final version of firmware. Performance will be increased soon with new firmware version. Matej Vido (2): szedata2: new poll mode driver doc: added documentation for szedata2 PMD config/common_bsdapp | 5 + config/common_linuxapp | 5 + doc/guides/nics/index.rst | 1 + doc/guides/nics/szedata2.rst | 105 ++ doc/guides/prog_guide/source_org.rst | 1 + drivers/net/Makefile | 1 + drivers/net/szedata2/Makefile | 62 ++ drivers/net/szedata2/rte_eth_szedata2.c | 1120 +++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/net/szedata2/rte_eth_szedata2.h | 96 ++ drivers/net/szedata2/rte_pmd_szedata2_version.map | 4 + mk/rte.app.mk | 3 + 11 files changed, 1403 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/guides/nics/szedata2.rst create mode 100644 drivers/net/szedata2/Makefile create mode 100644 drivers/net/szedata2/rte_eth_szedata2.c create mode 100644 drivers/net/szedata2/rte_eth_szedata2.h create mode 100644 drivers/net/szedata2/rte_pmd_szedata2_version.map -- Matej Vido Software Developer CESNET, a. l. e.