From patchwork Wed Jun 5 20:06:36 2019 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: "Chautru, Nicolas" X-Patchwork-Id: 54436 Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Delivered-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A5CB1B9B4; Wed, 5 Jun 2019 22:08:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mga06.intel.com (mga06.intel.com [134.134.136.31]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A1051B9A9 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 2019 22:08:28 +0200 (CEST) X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from orsmga005.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.41]) by orsmga104.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 05 Jun 2019 13:08:26 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 Received: from skx-5gnr-sc12-1.sc.intel.com ([172.25.69.194]) by orsmga005.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 05 Jun 2019 13:08:26 -0700 From: Nicolas Chautru To: thomas@monjalon.net, akhil.goyal@nxp.com, dev@dpdk.org Cc: ferruh.yigit@intel.com, Nicolas Chautru Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2019 13:06:36 -0700 Message-Id: <1559765196-250614-4-git-send-email-nicolas.chautru@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.3.1 In-Reply-To: <1559765196-250614-1-git-send-email-nicolas.chautru@intel.com> References: <1559756323-179855-2-git-send-email-nicolas.chautru@intel.com> <1559765196-250614-1-git-send-email-nicolas.chautru@intel.com> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/3] docs/guides: updating turbo_sw building steps X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" The documentation is clarified to point to steps on building the SDK libraries which are now publicly available. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Chautru --- doc/guides/bbdevs/turbo_sw.rst | 84 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------------- 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/guides/bbdevs/turbo_sw.rst b/doc/guides/bbdevs/turbo_sw.rst index 29f7ec9..196b3d6 100644 --- a/doc/guides/bbdevs/turbo_sw.rst +++ b/doc/guides/bbdevs/turbo_sw.rst @@ -1,26 +1,43 @@ .. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause Copyright(c) 2017 Intel Corporation -SW Turbo Poll Mode Driver +SW FEC Poll Mode Driver ========================= -The SW Turbo PMD (**baseband_turbo_sw**) provides a poll mode bbdev driver that utilizes -Intel optimized libraries for LTE Layer 1 workloads acceleration. This PMD -supports the functions: Turbo FEC, Rate Matching and CRC functions. +The SW FEC PMD (**baseband_turbo_sw**) provides a software only poll mode bbdev +driver that can optionally utilize Intel optimized libraries for LTE and 5GNR +Layer 1 workloads acceleration. + +Note that the driver can also be built without any dependency with reduced +functionality for maintenance purpose. + +To enable linking to the SDK libraries see detailed installation section below. +Two flags can be enabled depending on whether the target machine can support +AVX2 and AVX512 instructions sets and the related SDK libraries for vectorized +signal processing functions are installed : +- CONFIG_RTE_BBDEV_SDK_AVX2 +- CONFIG_RTE_BBDEV_SDK_AVX512 +By default these 2 flags are disabled by default. For AVX2 machine and SDK +library installed then the first flag can be enabled. For AVX512 machine and +SDK library installed then both flags can be enabled for full real time capability. + +This PMD supports the functions: FEC, Rate Matching and CRC functions detailed +in the Features section. Features -------- -SW Turbo PMD has support for the following capabilities: +SW FEC PMD can support for the following capabilities when the SDK libraries +are used: -For the encode operation: +For the LTE encode operation: * ``RTE_BBDEV_TURBO_CRC_24A_ATTACH`` * ``RTE_BBDEV_TURBO_CRC_24B_ATTACH`` * ``RTE_BBDEV_TURBO_RATE_MATCH`` * ``RTE_BBDEV_TURBO_RV_INDEX_BYPASS`` -For the decode operation: +For the LTE decode operation: * ``RTE_BBDEV_TURBO_SUBBLOCK_DEINTERLEAVE`` * ``RTE_BBDEV_TURBO_CRC_TYPE_24B`` @@ -41,14 +58,10 @@ Installation FlexRAN SDK Download ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -To build DPDK with the *baseband_turbo_sw* PMD the user is required to download -the export controlled ``FlexRAN SDK`` Libraries. An account at `Intel Resource -Design Center `_ -needs to be registered. +As an option it is possible to link this driver with FleXRAN SDK libraries +which can enable real time signal processing using AVX instructions. -Once registered, the user needs to log in, and look for -*Intel FlexRAN Software Release Package -18-09* to download or directly through -this `link `_. +These libraries are available through this link `link `_. After download is complete, the user needs to unpack and compile on their system before building DPDK. @@ -57,24 +70,24 @@ The following table maps DPDK versions with past FlexRAN SDK releases: .. _table_flexran_releases: -.. table:: DPDK and FlexRAN SDK releases compliance +.. table:: DPDK and FlexRAN FEC SDK releases compliance ===================== ============================ - DPDK version FlexRAN SDK release + DPDK version FlexRAN FEC SDK release ===================== ============================ - 18.02 1.3.0 - 18.05 1.4.0 - 18.08 1.6.0 - 19.02 18.09 + 19.08 19.04 ===================== ============================ FlexRAN SDK Installation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Note that the installation of these libraries is optional. + The following are pre-requisites for building FlexRAN SDK Libraries: - (a) An AVX2 supporting machine - (b) CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core) operating system - (c) Intel ICC 18.0.1 20171018 compiler installed + (a) An AVX2 or AVX512 supporting machine + (b) CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core) operating system is advised + (c) Intel ICC 18.0.1 20171018 compiler or more recent and related libraries + ICC is available with a free community license `link `_. The following instructions should be followed in this exact order: @@ -84,25 +97,18 @@ The following instructions should be followed in this exact order: source /linux/bin/compilervars.sh intel64 -platform linux -#. Extract the ``605167-flexran-18-09-tar.gz`` package: - - .. code-block:: console - - mkdir FlexRAN-18.09 - tar xvzf 605167-flexran-18-09-tar.gz -C FlexRAN-18.09/ - #. Run the SDK extractor script and accept the license: .. code-block:: console - cd /FlexRAN-18.09/ - ./SDK-18.09.sh + cd + ./FlexRAN-FEC-SDK-19-04.sh #. Generate makefiles based on system configuration: .. code-block:: console - cd /FlexRAN-18.09/SDK-18.09/sdk/ + cd /FlexRAN-FEC-SDK-19-04/sdk/ ./create-makefiles-linux.sh #. A build folder is generated in this form ``build--``, enter that @@ -129,12 +135,14 @@ Example: .. code-block:: console - export FLEXRAN_SDK=/FlexRAN-18.09/SDK-18.09/sdk/build-avx2-icc/install - export DIR_WIRELESS_SDK=/FlexRAN-18.09/SDK-18.09/sdk/ - + export FLEXRAN_SDK=/FlexRAN-FEC-SDK-19-04/sdk/build-avx2-icc/install + export DIR_WIRELESS_SDK=/FlexRAN-FEC-SDK-19-04/sdk/build-avx2-icc/ -* Set ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_BBDEV_TURBO_SW=y`` in DPDK common configuration - file ``config/common_base``. +* Set ``CONFIG_RTE_BBDEV_SDK_AVX2=y`` + in DPDK common configuration file ``config/common_base`` to be able to use + the SDK libraries as mentioned above. + If no flag are set the PMD driver will still build but its capabilities + will be limited accordingly. To use the PMD in an application, user must: