1.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause 2 Copyright(c) 2017 Cavium, Inc 3 4OCTEONTX SSOVF Eventdev Driver 5============================== 6 7The OCTEONTX SSOVF PMD (**librte_pmd_octeontx_ssovf**) provides poll mode 8eventdev driver support for the inbuilt event device found in the **Cavium OCTEONTX** 9SoC family as well as their virtual functions (VF) in SR-IOV context. 10 11More information can be found at `Cavium, Inc Official Website 12<http://www.cavium.com/OCTEON-TX_ARM_Processors.html>`_. 13 14Features 15-------- 16 17Features of the OCTEONTX SSOVF PMD are: 18 19- 64 Event queues 20- 32 Event ports 21- HW event scheduler 22- Supports 1M flows per event queue 23- Flow based event pipelining 24- Flow pinning support in flow based event pipelining 25- Queue based event pipelining 26- Supports ATOMIC, ORDERED, PARALLEL schedule types per flow 27- Event scheduling QoS based on event queue priority 28- Open system with configurable amount of outstanding events 29- HW accelerated dequeue timeout support to enable power management 30- SR-IOV VF 31- HW managed event timers support through TIMVF, with high precision and 32 time granularity of 1us. 33- Up to 64 event timer adapters. 34 35Supported OCTEONTX SoCs 36----------------------- 37- CN83xx 38 39Prerequisites 40------------- 41 42See :doc: `../platform/octeontx` for setup information. 43 44Pre-Installation Configuration 45------------------------------ 46 47Config File Options 48~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 49 50The following options can be modified in the ``config`` file. 51Please note that enabling debugging options may affect system performance. 52 53- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_OCTEONTX_SSOVF`` (default ``y``) 54 55 Toggle compilation of the ``librte_pmd_octeontx_ssovf`` driver. 56 57Driver Compilation 58~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 59 60To compile the OCTEONTX SSOVF PMD for Linux arm64 gcc target, run the 61following ``make`` command: 62 63.. code-block:: console 64 65 cd <DPDK-source-directory> 66 make config T=arm64-thunderx-linuxapp-gcc install 67 68 69Initialization 70-------------- 71 72The octeontx eventdev is exposed as a vdev device which consists of a set 73of SSO group and work-slot PCIe VF devices. On EAL initialization, 74SSO PCIe VF devices will be probed and then the vdev device can be created 75from the application code, or from the EAL command line based on 76the number of probed/bound SSO PCIe VF device to DPDK by 77 78* Invoking ``rte_vdev_init("event_octeontx")`` from the application 79 80* Using ``--vdev="event_octeontx"`` in the EAL options, which will call 81 rte_vdev_init() internally 82 83Example: 84 85.. code-block:: console 86 87 ./your_eventdev_application --vdev="event_octeontx" 88 89 90Selftest 91-------- 92 93The functionality of octeontx eventdev can be verified using this option, 94various unit and functional tests are run to verify the sanity. 95The tests are run once the vdev creation is successfully complete. 96 97.. code-block:: console 98 99 --vdev="event_octeontx,self_test=1" 100 101 102Limitations 103----------- 104 105Burst mode support 106~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 107 108Burst mode is not supported. Dequeue and Enqueue functions accepts only single 109event at a time. 110 111Rx adapter support 112~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 113 114When eth_octeontx is used as Rx adapter event schedule type 115``RTE_SCHED_TYPE_PARALLEL`` is not supported. 116