Anyone to review?
Please could you go a step further and remove one useless header level,
fix links, enclose code with double backticks and other basic stuff?
Thanks
01/06/2022 11:57, Kai Ji:
> Update and rephrasing some sentences, small improvements
> made to the multi-process sample application user guide
>
> Fixes: d0dff9ba445e ("doc: sample application user guide")
> Cc: bernard.iremon...@intel.com
>
> Signed-off-by: Kai Ji <kai...@intel.com>
> ---
> doc/guides/sample_app_ug/multi_process.rst | 67 +++++++++++-----------
> 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/multi_process.rst
> b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/multi_process.rst
> index c53331def3..e2a311a426 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/multi_process.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/multi_process.rst
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
> .. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
> - Copyright(c) 2010-2014 Intel Corporation.
> + Copyright(c) 2010-2022 Intel Corporation.
>
> .. _multi_process_app:
>
> @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ How the Application Works
> The core of this example application is based on using two queues and a
> single memory pool in shared memory.
> These three objects are created at startup by the primary process,
> since the secondary process cannot create objects in memory as it cannot
> reserve memory zones,
> -and the secondary process then uses lookup functions to attach to these
> objects as it starts up.
> +thus the secondary process uses lookup functions to attach to these objects
> as it starts up.
>
> .. literalinclude:: ../../../examples/multi_process/simple_mp/main.c
> :language: c
> @@ -119,25 +119,25 @@ and the secondary process then uses lookup functions to
> attach to these objects
> :end-before: >8 End of ring structure.
> :dedent: 1
>
> -Note, however, that the named ring structure used as send_ring in the
> primary process is the recv_ring in the secondary process.
> +Note, that the named ring structure used as send_ring in the primary process
> is the recv_ring in the secondary process.
>
> Once the rings and memory pools are all available in both the primary and
> secondary processes,
> the application simply dedicates two threads to sending and receiving
> messages respectively.
> -The receive thread simply dequeues any messages on the receive ring, prints
> them,
> -and frees the buffer space used by the messages back to the memory pool.
> -The send thread makes use of the command-prompt library to interactively
> request user input for messages to send.
> -Once a send command is issued by the user, a buffer is allocated from the
> memory pool, filled in with the message contents,
> -then enqueued on the appropriate rte_ring.
> +The receiver thread simply dequeues any messages on the receive ring and
> prints out in terminal,
> +then the buffer space used by the messages is released back to the memory
> pool.
> +The sender thread makes use of the command-prompt library to interactively
> request user input for messages to send.
> +Once a send command is issued, the message contents are put into a buffer
> that was allocated from the memory pool,
> +which is then enqueued on the appropriate rte_ring.
>
> Symmetric Multi-process Example
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> -The second example of DPDK multi-process support demonstrates how a set of
> processes can run in parallel,
> -with each process performing the same set of packet- processing operations.
> -(Since each process is identical in functionality to the others,
> -we refer to this as symmetric multi-processing, to differentiate it from
> asymmetric multi- processing -
> -such as a client-server mode of operation seen in the next example,
> -where different processes perform different tasks, yet co-operate to form a
> packet-processing system.)
> +The second DPDK multi-process example demonstrates how a set of processes
> can run in parallel,
> +where each process is performing the same set of packet-processing
> operations.
> +(As each process is identical in functionality to the others,
> +we refer to this as symmetric multi-processing. In the asymmetric
> multi-processing example,
> +the different client-server mode processes perform different tasks,
> +yet co-operate to form a packet-processing system.)
> The following diagram shows the data-flow through the application, using two
> processes.
>
> .. _figure_sym_multi_proc_app:
> @@ -155,9 +155,8 @@ Similarly, each process writes outgoing packets to a
> different TX queue on each
> Running the Application
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> -As with the simple_mp example, the first instance of the symmetric_mp
> process must be run as the primary instance,
> -though with a number of other application- specific parameters also provided
> after the EAL arguments.
> -These additional parameters are:
> +The first instance of the symmetric_mp process must be run as the primary
> instance,
> +with the following application parameters:
>
> * -p <portmask>, where portmask is a hexadecimal bitmask of what ports on
> the system are to be used.
> For example: -p 3 to use ports 0 and 1 only.
> @@ -169,7 +168,7 @@ These additional parameters are:
> This identifies which symmetric_mp instance is being run, so that each
> process can read a unique receive queue on each network port.
>
> The secondary symmetric_mp instances must also have these parameters
> specified,
> -and the first two must be the same as those passed to the primary instance,
> or errors result.
> +and the <portmask> and <N> parameters need to be configured with the same
> values as the primary instance.
>
> For example, to run a set of four symmetric_mp instances, running on lcores
> 1-4,
> all performing level-2 forwarding of packets between ports 0 and 1,
> @@ -202,7 +201,7 @@ How the Application Works
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> The initialization calls in both the primary and secondary instances are the
> same for the most part,
> -calling the rte_eal_init(), 1 G and 10 G driver initialization and then
> probing devices.
> +calling the rte_eal_init(), 1G and 10G driver initialization and then
> probing devices.
> Thereafter, the initialization done depends on whether the process is
> configured as a primary or secondary instance.
>
> In the primary instance, a memory pool is created for the packet mbufs and
> the network ports to be used are initialized -
> @@ -217,7 +216,7 @@ therefore will be accessible by the secondary process as
> it initializes.
> :dedent: 1
>
> In the secondary instance, rather than initializing the network ports, the
> port information exported by the primary process is used,
> -giving the secondary process access to the hardware and software rings for
> each network port.
> +giving the secondary process is able to access to the hardware and software
> rings for each network port.
> Similarly, the memory pool of mbufs is accessed by doing a lookup for it by
> name:
>
> .. code-block:: c
> @@ -234,7 +233,7 @@ Client-Server Multi-process Example
> The third example multi-process application included with the DPDK shows how
> one can
> use a client-server type multi-process design to do packet processing.
> In this example, a single server process performs the packet reception from
> the ports being used and
> -distributes these packets using round-robin ordering among a set of client
> processes,
> +distributes these packets using round-robin ordering among a set of client
> processes,
> which perform the actual packet processing.
> In this case, the client applications just perform level-2 forwarding of
> packets by sending each packet out on a different network port.
>
> @@ -250,8 +249,8 @@ The following diagram shows the data-flow through the
> application, using two cli
> Running the Application
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> -The server process must be run initially as the primary process to set up
> all memory structures for use by the clients.
> -In addition to the EAL parameters, the application- specific parameters are:
> +The server process must be run initially as the primary process to set up
> all memory structures for use by the client processes.
> +In addition to the EAL parameters, the application-specific parameters are:
>
> * -p <portmask >, where portmask is a hexadecimal bitmask of what ports on
> the system are to be used.
> For example: -p 3 to use ports 0 and 1 only.
> @@ -285,23 +284,23 @@ the following commands could be used:
> How the Application Works
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> -The server process performs the network port and data structure
> initialization much as the symmetric multi-process application does when run
> as primary.
> -One additional enhancement in this sample application is that the server
> process stores its port configuration data in a memory zone in hugepage
> shared memory.
> -This eliminates the need for the client processes to have the portmask
> parameter passed into them on the command line,
> -as is done for the symmetric multi-process application, and therefore
> eliminates mismatched parameters as a potential source of errors.
> +The server process performs the network port and data structure
> initialization similar to the primary symmetric multi-process application.
> +The server process stores port configuration data in a memory zone in
> hugepage shared memory, this eliminates
> +the need for the client processes to have the same portmask parameter in the
> command line.
> +This enhancement can be done for the symmetric multi-process application in
> the future.
>
> In the same way that the server process is designed to be run as a primary
> process instance only,
> the client processes are designed to be run as secondary instances only.
> -They have no code to attempt to create shared memory objects.
> -Instead, handles to all needed rings and memory pools are obtained via calls
> to rte_ring_lookup() and rte_mempool_lookup().
> -The network ports for use by the processes are obtained by loading the
> network port drivers and probing the PCI bus,
> -which will, as in the symmetric multi-process example,
> -automatically get access to the network ports using the settings already
> configured by the primary/server process.
> +The client process does not support creating shared memory objects.
> +Instead, the client process can access required rings and memory pools via
> rte_ring_lookup() and rte_mempool_lookup() function calls.
> +The available network ports use by the processes are obtained by loading the
> network port drivers and probing the PCI bus.
> +Same as the implementation in the symmetric multi-process example, the
> client process automatically gets
> +access to the network ports settings where configured by the primary/server
> process.
>
> -Once all applications are initialized, the server operates by reading
> packets from each network port in turn and
> +Once all applications are initialized, the server operates by reading
> packets from each network port in turns and
> distributing those packets to the client queues (software rings, one for
> each client process) in round-robin order.
> On the client side, the packets are read from the rings in as big of bursts
> as possible, then routed out to a different network port.
> -The routing used is very simple. All packets received on the first NIC port
> are transmitted back out on the second port and vice versa.
> +The routing used is very simple, all packets received on the first NIC port
> are transmitted back out on the second port and vice versa.
> Similarly, packets are routed between the 3rd and 4th network ports and so
> on.
> The sending of packets is done by writing the packets directly to the
> network ports; they are not transferred back via the server process.
>
>
