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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+   Copyright 2021 HiSilicon Limited
+
+DMA Device Library
+====================
+
+The DMA library provides a DMA device framework for management and provisioning
+of hardware and software DMA poll mode drivers, defining generic APIs which
+support a number of different DMA operations.
+
+
+Design Principles
+-----------------
+
+The DMA library follows the same basic principles as those used in DPDK's
+Ethernet Device framework and the RegEx framework. The DMA framework provides
+a generic DMA device framework which supports both physical (hardware)
+and virtual (software) DMA devices as well as a generic DMA API which allows
+DMA devices to be managed and configured and supports DMA operations to be
+provisioned on DMA poll mode driver.
+
+Figure below outlines the model of the DMA framework built on:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+    +-------------+   +-------------+       +-------------+
+    | virtual DMA |   | virtual DMA |       | virtual DMA |
+    | channel     |   | channel     |       | channel     |
+    +-------------+   +-------------+       +-------------+
+           |                 |                     |
+           -------------------                     |
+                    |                              |
+              +----------+                    +----------+
+              |  dmadev  |                    |  dmadev  |
+              +----------+                    +----------+
+                    |                              |
+            +--------------+                +--------------+
+            | hardware DMA |                | hardware DMA |
+            | channel      |                | channel      |
+            +--------------+                +--------------+
+                    |                              |
+                    --------------------------------
+                                    |
+                             +--------------+
+                             | hardware DMA |
+                             | controller   |
+                             +--------------+
+
+ * The DMA controller could have multiple hardware DMA channels (aka. hardware
+   DMA queues), each hardware DMA channel should be represented by a dmadev.
+ * The dmadev could create multiple virtual DMA channels, each virtual DMA
+   channel represents a different transfer context. The DMA operation request
+   must be submitted to the virtual DMA channel. e.g. Application could create
+   virtual DMA channel 0 for memory-to-memory transfer scenario, and create
+   virtual DMA channel 1 for memory-to-device transfer scenario.
+
+
+Device Management
+-----------------
+
+Device Creation
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Physical DMA controller is discovered during the PCI probe/enumeration of the
+EAL function which is executed at DPDK initialization, based on their PCI
+device identifier, each unique PCI BDF (bus/bridge, device, function). Specific
+physical DMA controller, like other physical devices in DPDK can be listed using
+the EAL command line options.
+
+And then dmadevs are dynamically allocated by rte_dmadev_pmd_allocate() based on
+the number of hardware DMA channels.
+
+
+Device Identification
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Each DMA device, whether physical or virtual is uniquely designated by two
+identifiers:
+
+- A unique device index used to designate the DMA device in all functions
+  exported by the DMA API.
+
+- A device name used to designate the DMA device in console messages, for
+  administration or debugging purposes.
+
+
+Device Configuration
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The rte_dmadev_configure API is used to configure a DMA device.
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+   int rte_dmadev_configure(uint16_t dev_id,
+                            const struct rte_dmadev_conf *dev_conf);
+
+The ``rte_dmadev_conf`` structure is used to pass the configuration parameters
+for the DMA device for example maximum number of virtual DMA channels,
+indication of whether to enable silent mode.
+
+
+Configuration of Virtual DMA Channels
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The rte_dmadev_vchan_setup API is used to configure a virtual DMA channel.
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+   int rte_dmadev_vchan_setup(uint16_t dev_id,
+		                      const struct rte_dmadev_vchan_conf *conf);
+
+The ``rte_dmadev_vchan_conf`` structure is used to pass the configuration
+parameters for the virtual DMA channel for example transfer direction, number of
+descriptor for the virtual DMA channel, source device access port parameter,
+destination device access port parameter.
+
+
+Device Features and Capabilities
+--------------------------------
+
+DMA devices may support different feature set. In order to get the supported PMD
+features ``rte_dmadev_info_get`` API which returns the info of the device and
+it's supported features.
diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/index.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/index.rst
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@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ Programmer's Guide
     regexdev
     rte_security
     rawdev
+    dmadev
     link_bonding_poll_mode_drv_lib
     timer_lib
     hash_lib
