[6/6] doc: add Marvell CNXK mempool documentation

  Add Marvell OCTEON CNXK mempool documentation.

Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Nithin Dabilpuram <ndabilpuram@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ashwin Sekhar T K <asekhar@marvell.com>
---
 MAINTAINERS                  |  6 +++
 doc/guides/mempool/cnxk.rst  | 84 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 doc/guides/mempool/index.rst |  1 +
 doc/guides/platform/cnxk.rst |  3 ++
 4 files changed, 94 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 doc/guides/mempool/cnxk.rst
  

On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 11:44 PM Ashwin Sekhar T K <asekhar@marvell.com> wrote:
>
> Add Marvell OCTEON CNXK mempool documentation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nithin Dabilpuram <ndabilpuram@marvell.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ashwin Sekhar T K <asekhar@marvell.com>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS                  |  6 +++
>  doc/guides/mempool/cnxk.rst  | 84 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  doc/guides/mempool/index.rst |  1 +
>  doc/guides/platform/cnxk.rst |  3 ++
>  4 files changed, 94 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 doc/guides/mempool/cnxk.rst
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 45dcd36dbe..67c179f11b 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -501,6 +501,12 @@ M: Artem V. Andreev <artem.andreev@oktetlabs.ru>
>  M: Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru>
>  F: drivers/mempool/bucket/
>
> +Marvell cnxk
> +M: Ashwin Sekhar T K <asekhar@marvell.com>
> +M: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula@marvell.com>
> +F: drivers/mempool/cnxk/
> +F: doc/guides/mempool/cnxk.rst


Please move this section to the first patch.

> +
>  Marvell OCTEON TX2
>  M: Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>
>  M: Nithin Dabilpuram <ndabilpuram@marvell.com>
> diff --git a/doc/guides/mempool/cnxk.rst b/doc/guides/mempool/cnxk.rst
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..fe099bb11a
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/doc/guides/mempool/cnxk.rst
> @@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
> +..  SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
> +    Copyright(C) 2021 Marvell.
> +
> +CNXK NPA Mempool Driver
> +============================
> +
> +The CNXK NPA PMD (**librte_mempool_cnxk**) provides mempool
> +driver support for the integrated mempool device found in **Marvell OCTEON CN9K/CN10K** SoC family.
> +
> +More information about CNXK SoC can be found at `Marvell Official Website
> +<https://www.marvell.com/embedded-processors/infrastructure-processors/>`_.
> +
> +Features
> +--------
> +
> +CNXK NPA PMD supports:
> +
> +- Up to 128 NPA LFs
> +- 1M Pools per LF
> +- HW mempool manager
> +- Asynchronous batch alloc of up to 512 buffer allocations with single instruction.
> +- Batch free of up to 15 buffers with single instruction.
> +- Ethdev Rx buffer allocation in HW to save CPU cycles in the Rx path.
> +- Ethdev Tx buffer recycling in HW to save CPU cycles in the Tx path.


Please move this section first patch.


> +
> +Prerequisites and Compilation procedure
> +---------------------------------------
> +
> +   See :doc:`../platform/cnxk` for setup information.
> +
> +Pre-Installation Configuration
> +------------------------------
> +
> +
> +Runtime Config Options
> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> +
> +- ``Maximum number of mempools per application`` (default ``128``)
> +
> +  The maximum number of mempools per application needs to be configured on
> +  HW during mempool driver initialization. HW can support up to 1M mempools,
> +  Since each mempool costs set of HW resources, the ``max_pools`` ``devargs``
> +  parameter is being introduced to configure the number of mempools required
> +  for the application.
> +  For example::
> +
> +    -a 0002:02:00.0,max_pools=512


Please add this section on the patch where it adds devargs.

> +
> +  With the above configuration, the driver will set up only 512 mempools for
> +  the given application to save HW resources.
> +
> +.. note::
> +
> +   Since this configuration is per application, the end user needs to
> +   provide ``max_pools`` parameter to the first PCIe device probed by the given
> +   application.
> +
> +Debugging Options
> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> +
> +.. _table_cnxk_mempool_debug_options:
> +
> +.. table:: CNXK mempool debug options
> +
> +   +---+------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
> +   | # | Component  | EAL log command                                       |
> +   +===+============+=======================================================+
> +   | 1 | NPA        | --log-level='pmd\.mempool.cnxk,8'                     |
> +   +---+------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
> +
> +Standalone mempool device
> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> +
> +   The ``usertools/dpdk-devbind.py`` script shall enumerate all the mempool devices
> +   available in the system. In order to avoid, the end user to bind the mempool
> +   device prior to use ethdev and/or eventdev device, the respective driver
> +   configures an NPA LF and attach to the first probed ethdev or eventdev device.
> +   In case, if end user need to run mempool as a standalone device
> +   (without ethdev or eventdev), end user needs to bind a mempool device using
> +   ``usertools/dpdk-devbind.py``
> +
> +   Example command to run ``mempool_autotest`` test with standalone CN10K NPA device::
> +
> +     echo "mempool_autotest" | <build_dir>/app/test/dpdk-test -c 0xf0 --mbuf-pool-ops-name="cn10k_mempool_ops"
> diff --git a/doc/guides/mempool/index.rst b/doc/guides/mempool/index.rst
> index a0e55467e6..ce53bc1ac7 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/mempool/index.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/mempool/index.rst
> @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ application through the mempool API.
>      :maxdepth: 2
>      :numbered:
>
> +    cnxk
>      octeontx
>      octeontx2
>      ring
> diff --git a/doc/guides/platform/cnxk.rst b/doc/guides/platform/cnxk.rst
> index 3b072877a1..9bbba65f2e 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/platform/cnxk.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/platform/cnxk.rst
> @@ -141,6 +141,9 @@ HW Offload Drivers
>
>  This section lists dataplane H/W block(s) available in CNXK SoC.
>
> +#. **Mempool Driver**
> +   See :doc:`../mempool/cnxk` for NPA mempool driver information.
> +
>  Procedure to Setup Platform
>  ---------------------------
>
> --
> 2.29.2
>