From: Jingjing Wu <jingjing...@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jingjing Wu <jingjing...@intel.com>
---
doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst | 16 ++++++++++++++--
doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst | 16 ++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst b/doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst
index 1e83bf6..3adb684 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@
(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
-I40E/IXGBE/IGB Virtual Function Driver
-======================================
+Intel Virtual Function Driver
+=============================
Supported Intel® Ethernet Controllers (see the *DPDK Release Notes* for
details)
support the following modes of operation in a virtualized environment:
@@ -93,6 +93,18 @@ and the Physical Function operates on the global resources
on behalf of the Virt
For this out-of-band communication, an SR-IOV enabled NIC provides a memory
buffer for each Virtual Function,
which is called a "Mailbox".
+Intel® Ethernet Adaptive Virtual Function
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+Adaptive Virtual Function (AVF) is a SR-IOV Virtual Function with the same
device id (8086:1889) on different Intel Ethernet Controller.
+AVF Driver is VF driver which supports for all future Intel devices without
requiring a VM update. And since this happens to be an adaptive VF driver,
+every new drop of the VF driver would add more and more advanced features that
can be turned on in the VM if the underlying HW device supports those
+advanced features based on a device agnostic way without ever compromising on
the base functionality. AVF provides generic hardware interface and
+interface between AVF driver and a compliant PF driver is specified.
+
+Intel products starting Ethernet Controller 710 Series to support Adaptive
Virtual Function.
+
+The way to generate Virtual Function is like normal, and the resource of VF
assignment depends on the NIC Infrastructure.
+
The PCIE host-interface of Intel Ethernet Switch FM10000 Series VF
infrastructure
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst
b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst
index 24b67bb..0672b0e 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst
@@ -41,6 +41,22 @@ New Features
Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
=========================================================
+ * **Add AVF (Adaptive Virtual Function) net PMD.**
+
+ A new net PMD has been added, which supports Intel® Ethernet Adaptive
+ Virtual Function (AVF) with features list below:
+
+ * Basic Rx/Tx burst
+ * SSE vectorized Rx/Tx burst
+ * Promiscuous mode
+ * MAC/VLAN offload
+ * Checksum offload
+ * TSO offload
+ * Jumbo frame and MTU setting
+ * RSS configuration
+ * stats
+ * Rx/Tx descriptor status
+ * Link status update/event
API Changes
-----------
--
1.9.3
