remove KNI

The KNI driver had design flaws such as calling userspace with kernel
mutex held that made it prone to deadlock. The design also introduced
security risks because the kernel driver truste

remove KNI

The KNI driver had design flaws such as calling userspace with kernel
mutex held that made it prone to deadlock. The design also introduced
security risks because the kernel driver trusted the userspace
(DPDK) kni interface. The kernel driver was never reviewed by
the upstream kernel community and would never have been accepted.

And since the Linux kernel API is not stable, it was a continual
source of maintenance issues especially with distribution kernels.

There are better ways to inject packets into the kernel such as
virtio_user, tap and XDP drivers. All of these do not need out of
tree kernel drivers.

The deprecation was announced in 22.11 release (see links for the
the techboard discussions); and users were directed to alternatives
there.

Link: https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2021-January/197077.html
Link: https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2022-June/243596.html

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>

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sched: add PIE based congestion management

Implement PIE based congestion management based on rfc8033.

The Proportional Integral Controller Enhanced (PIE) algorithm works
by proactively dropping pa

sched: add PIE based congestion management

Implement PIE based congestion management based on rfc8033.

The Proportional Integral Controller Enhanced (PIE) algorithm works
by proactively dropping packets randomly.
PIE is implemented as more advanced queue management is required to
address the bufferbloat problem and provide desirable quality of
service to users.

Tests for PIE code added to test application.
Added PIE related information to documentation.

Signed-off-by: Wojciech Liguzinski <wojciechx.liguzinski@intel.com>
Acked-by: Cristian Dumitrescu <cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jasvinder Singh <jasvinder.singh@intel.com>

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eal: rename lcore master and slave

Replace master lcore with main lcore and
replace slave lcore with worker lcore.

Keep the old functions and macros but mark them as deprecated
for this release.

T

eal: rename lcore master and slave

Replace master lcore with main lcore and
replace slave lcore with worker lcore.

Keep the old functions and macros but mark them as deprecated
for this release.

The "--master-lcore" command line option is also deprecated
and any usage will print a warning and use "--main-lcore"
as replacement.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>

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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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mbuf: remove control mbuf

The rte_ctrlmbuf structure is not used by any example application
in dpdk. Remove it, as announced on the mailing list.

Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com

mbuf: remove control mbuf

The rte_ctrlmbuf structure is not used by any example application
in dpdk. Remove it, as announced on the mailing list.

Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>

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doc: convert Intel license headers to SPDX tags

Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>

doc: convert prog guide glossary to definition list

Converted the Glossary table in the Programmer's Guide
to a definition list to improve rendering.

Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@int

doc: convert prog guide glossary to definition list

Converted the Glossary table in the Programmer's Guide
to a definition list to improve rendering.

Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>

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doc: remove Intel references from prog guide

Removed redundant references to Intel(R) DPDK in Programmers Guide.

Signed-off-by: Siobhan Butler <siobhan.a.butler@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bernard Iremong

doc: remove Intel references from prog guide

Removed redundant references to Intel(R) DPDK in Programmers Guide.

Signed-off-by: Siobhan Butler <siobhan.a.butler@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>

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doc: programmers guide

The 1.7 DPDK_Prog_Guide document in MSWord has been converted to rst format for
use with Sphinx. There is an rst file for each chapter and an index.rst file
which contains the

doc: programmers guide

The 1.7 DPDK_Prog_Guide document in MSWord has been converted to rst format for
use with Sphinx. There is an rst file for each chapter and an index.rst file
which contains the table of contents.
The top level index file has been modified to include this guide.

This document contains some png image files. If any of these png files are modified
they should be replaced with an svg file.

This is the sixth document from a set of 6 documents.

Signed-off-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>

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