[ovs-dev] [PATCH v2] docs: Use DPDK 16.11.1 stable release.

Ian Stokes ian.stokes at intel.com
Fri Mar 10 11:47:09 UTC 2017


DPDK now provides a stable release branch. Modify dpdk docs and travis linux
build script to use the DPDK 16.11.1 stable branch to benefit from most
recent bug fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes at intel.com>
---
v1 -> v2
* Set correct path to DPDK stable branch for EXTRA_OPTS in travis linux
  build.
---
 .travis/linux-build.sh                   |   12 ++++++------
 Documentation/faq/releases.rst           |   10 +++++-----
 Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst     |    6 +++---
 Documentation/topics/dpdk/vhost-user.rst |    8 ++++----
 4 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.travis/linux-build.sh b/.travis/linux-build.sh
index 4175d72..8750d68 100755
--- a/.travis/linux-build.sh
+++ b/.travis/linux-build.sh
@@ -52,13 +52,13 @@ function install_kernel()
 function install_dpdk()
 {
     if [ -n "$DPDK_GIT" ]; then
-        git clone $DPDK_GIT dpdk-$1
-        cd dpdk-$1
-        git checkout v$1
+        git clone $DPDK_GIT dpdk-stable-$1
+        cd dpdk-stable-$1
+        git checkout tags/v$1
     else
         wget http://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-$1.tar.gz
         tar xzvf dpdk-$1.tar.gz > /dev/null
-        cd dpdk-$1
+        cd dpdk-stable-$1
     fi
     find ./ -type f | xargs sed -i 's/max-inline-insns-single=100/max-inline-insns-single=400/'
     echo 'CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_FPIC=y' >>config/common_linuxapp
@@ -80,14 +80,14 @@ fi
 
 if [ "$DPDK" ]; then
     if [ -z "$DPDK_VER" ]; then
-        DPDK_VER="16.11"
+        DPDK_VER="16.11.1"
     fi
     install_dpdk $DPDK_VER
     if [ "$CC" = "clang" ]; then
         # Disregard cast alignment errors until DPDK is fixed
         CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Wno-cast-align"
     fi
-    EXTRA_OPTS="$EXTRA_OPTS --with-dpdk=./dpdk-$DPDK_VER/build"
+    EXTRA_OPTS="$EXTRA_OPTS --with-dpdk=./dpdk-stable-$DPDK_VER/build"
 elif [ "$CC" != "clang" ]; then
     # DPDK headers currently trigger sparse errors
     SPARSE_FLAGS="$SPARSE_FLAGS -Wsparse-error"
diff --git a/Documentation/faq/releases.rst b/Documentation/faq/releases.rst
index 118c88d..98f5636 100644
--- a/Documentation/faq/releases.rst
+++ b/Documentation/faq/releases.rst
@@ -152,16 +152,16 @@ Q: What DPDK version does each Open vSwitch release work with?
     A: The following table lists the DPDK version against which the given
     versions of Open vSwitch will successfully build.
 
-    ============ =====
+    ============ =======
     Open vSwitch DPDK
-    ============ =====
+    ============ =======
     2.2.x        1.6
     2.3.x        1.6
     2.4.x        2.0
     2.5.x        2.2
-    2.6.x        16.07
-    2.7.x        16.11
-    ============ =====
+    2.6.x        16.07.2
+    2.7.x        16.11.1
+    ============ =======
 
 Q: I get an error like this when I configure Open vSwitch::
 
diff --git a/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst b/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst
index 3018590..b947bd5 100644
--- a/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst
+++ b/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst
@@ -64,9 +64,9 @@ Install DPDK
 #. Download the `DPDK sources`_, extract the file and set ``DPDK_DIR``::
 
        $ cd /usr/src/
-       $ wget http://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-16.11.tar.xz
-       $ tar xf dpdk-16.11.tar.xz
-       $ export DPDK_DIR=/usr/src/dpdk-16.11
+       $ wget http://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-16.11.1.tar.xz
+       $ tar xf dpdk-16.11.1.tar.xz
+       $ export DPDK_DIR=/usr/src/dpdk-stable-16.11.1
        $ cd $DPDK_DIR
 
 #. (Optional) Configure DPDK as a shared library
diff --git a/Documentation/topics/dpdk/vhost-user.rst b/Documentation/topics/dpdk/vhost-user.rst
index 5448bd2..ba22684 100644
--- a/Documentation/topics/dpdk/vhost-user.rst
+++ b/Documentation/topics/dpdk/vhost-user.rst
@@ -278,9 +278,9 @@ To begin, instantiate a guest as described in :ref:`dpdk-vhost-user` or
 DPDK sources to VM and build DPDK::
 
     $ cd /root/dpdk/
-    $ wget http://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-16.11.tar.xz
-    $ tar xf dpdk-16.11.tar.xz
-    $ export DPDK_DIR=/root/dpdk/dpdk-16.11
+    $ wget http://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-16.11.1.tar.xz
+    $ tar xf dpdk-16.11.1.tar.xz
+    $ export DPDK_DIR=/root/dpdk/dpdk-stable-16.11.1
     $ export DPDK_TARGET=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc
     $ export DPDK_BUILD=$DPDK_DIR/$DPDK_TARGET
     $ cd $DPDK_DIR
@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ Sample XML
         </disk>
         <disk type='dir' device='disk'>
           <driver name='qemu' type='fat'/>
-          <source dir='/usr/src/dpdk-16.11'/>
+          <source dir='/usr/src/dpdk-stable-16.11.1'/>
           <target dev='vdb' bus='virtio'/>
           <readonly/>
         </disk>
-- 
1.7.0.7



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