doc: use ordered lists

Prefer automatically ordered lists by using #.

Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Dar

doc: use ordered lists

Prefer automatically ordered lists by using #.

Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Dariusz Sosnowski <dsosnowski@nvidia.com>

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doc: add SPDX license tag header to Intel performance guide

This document never had any license or copyright on this file, add one.

Fixes: b932ebcb2664 ("doc: add NIC performance guide on Linux IA"

doc: add SPDX license tag header to Intel performance guide

This document never had any license or copyright on this file, add one.

Fixes: b932ebcb2664 ("doc: add NIC performance guide on Linux IA")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>

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doc: remove some build instructions where unneeded

The build should be described only in few places,
in order to maintain up-to-date, accurate and detailed instructions.
This change is removing some

doc: remove some build instructions where unneeded

The build should be described only in few places,
in order to maintain up-to-date, accurate and detailed instructions.
This change is removing some of the unneeded repetitions.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Acked-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
Acked-by: Jay Zhou <jianjay.zhou@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>

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doc: prefer https when pointing to dpdk.org

for file in $(git grep -l http://.*dpdk.org doc/); do
sed -i -e 's#http://\(.*dpdk.org\)#https://\1#g' $file;
done

Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by:

doc: prefer https when pointing to dpdk.org

for file in $(git grep -l http://.*dpdk.org doc/); do
sed -i -e 's#http://\(.*dpdk.org\)#https://\1#g' $file;
done

Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>

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doc/guides: clean repeated words

Shoot repeated words in all our guides.

Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>

mk: use linux and freebsd in config names

Rather than using linuxapp and bsdapp everywhere, we can change things to
use the, more readable, terms "linux" and "freebsd" in our build configs.
Rather t

mk: use linux and freebsd in config names

Rather than using linuxapp and bsdapp everywhere, we can change things to
use the, more readable, terms "linux" and "freebsd" in our build configs.
Rather than renaming the configs we can just duplicate the existing ones
with the new names using symlinks, and use the new names exclusively
internally. ["make showconfigs" also only shows the new names to keep the
list short] The result is that backward compatibility is kept fully but any
new builds or development can be done using the newer names, i.e. both
"make config T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc" and "T=x86_64-native-linux-gcc"
work.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>

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doc: update recommended BIOS settings in Linux guide

Update recommended BIOS settings for performance to be more appropriate
for a wider variety of applications, and allow users to select the most
a

doc: update recommended BIOS settings in Linux guide

Update recommended BIOS settings for performance to be more appropriate
for a wider variety of applications, and allow users to select the most
appropriate settings for their use case, e.g. some users may wish to
have Turbo Boost enabled.

Signed-off-by: David Hunt <david.hunt@intel.com>
Acked-by: Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>

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fix dpdk.org URLs

The DPDK website has a new URL scheme since June 2018.

Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>

fix typos

Repeated occurrences of 'the'.

The change was obtained using the following command:

sed -i "s;the the ;the ;" `git grep -l "the "`

Signed-off-by: Thierry Herbelot <thierry.herbelot@6w

fix typos

Repeated occurrences of 'the'.

The change was obtained using the following command:

sed -i "s;the the ;the ;" `git grep -l "the "`

Signed-off-by: Thierry Herbelot <thierry.herbelot@6wind.com>

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doc: move i40e specific to i40e guide

The Linux Getting Started Guide contains
parts which are specific for i40e PMD. This results
in confusion for users which read the guide at their
first try with

doc: move i40e specific to i40e guide

The Linux Getting Started Guide contains
parts which are specific for i40e PMD. This results
in confusion for users which read the guide at their
first try with DPDK.

Moving those parts to the i40e NIC manual.

Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>

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doc: move kernel drivers to a new chapter

The UIO and VFIO sections should not be part of
the "Compiling the DPDK Target from Source" chapter,
as it is PMD specific and not true for all PMDs.

Inste

doc: move kernel drivers to a new chapter

The UIO and VFIO sections should not be part of
the "Compiling the DPDK Target from Source" chapter,
as it is PMD specific and not true for all PMDs.

Instead, moving those sections to a new chapter
which include all kernel drivers being used along with
the different PMDs.

Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>

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doc: use corelist instead of coremask

The coremask option in DPDK is difficult to use and we should be
promoting the use of the corelist (-l) option. The patch
adjusts the docs to use -l EAL option

doc: use corelist instead of coremask

The coremask option in DPDK is difficult to use and we should be
promoting the use of the corelist (-l) option. The patch
adjusts the docs to use -l EAL option instead of the -c option.

The patch only changes the docs and not the code as the -c option
will continue to exist unless it is removed in the future. The -c
option should be kept to maintain backward compatibility.

Signed-off-by: Keith Wiles <keith.wiles@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>

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tools: move to usertools

Rename tools/ into usertools/ to differentiate from buildtools/
and devtools/ while making clear these scripts are part of
DPDK runtime.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <tho

tools: move to usertools

Rename tools/ into usertools/ to differentiate from buildtools/
and devtools/ while making clear these scripts are part of
DPDK runtime.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Tested-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>

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unify tools naming

The following tools may be installed system-wide.
It may be cleaner and more convenient to find them with the same
dpdk- prefix (especially for autocompletion).
Moreover, the scri

unify tools naming

The following tools may be installed system-wide.
It may be cleaner and more convenient to find them with the same
dpdk- prefix (especially for autocompletion).
Moreover, the script dpdk_nic_bind.py deserves a new name because it is
not restricted to NICs and can be used for e.g. crypto.

These files are renamed:
pmdinfogen -> dpdk-pmdinfogen
pmdinfo.py -> dpdk-pmdinfo.py
dpdk_pdump -> dpdk-pdump
dpdk_proc_info -> dpdk-procinfo
dpdk_nic_bind.py -> dpdk-devbind.py
setup.sh -> dpdk-setup.sh

The tools pmdinfogen, pmdinfo.py and dpdk_pdump are new in 16.07.

The scripts dpdk_nic_bind.py and setup.sh may have been used with
previous releases by end users. That's why a symbolic link still
provide the old name in the installed tools directory.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>

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doc: add NIC performance guide on Linux IA

Add a new guide doc as part of the Linux Getting Started Guide.

The document is a step-by-step guide on how to get high performance
with DPDK on an Intel

doc: add NIC performance guide on Linux IA

Add a new guide doc as part of the Linux Getting Started Guide.

The document is a step-by-step guide on how to get high performance
with DPDK on an Intel platform.

It is designed for users who are not familiar with DPDK but would like
to get the best performance with NICs.

Signed-off-by: Qian Xu <qian.q.xu@intel.com>

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