HowTo Guides

• 1. Getting Started with OVS
  • 1.1. Building and Installing OVS
    • 1.1.1. Installing OVS from the distribution repository
    • 1.1.2. Building OVS from source
  • 1.2. Launching OVS
    • 1.2.1. Hugepage setup
    • 1.2.2. Binding the required devices
    • 1.2.3. Setting up OVS directory and the path
    • 1.2.4. Creating bridge and binding ports
  • 1.3. Configuring VLAN
  • 1.4. Configuring VxLAN
• 2. Getting started with VirtIO on host
  • 2.1. OCTEON vDPA driver
  • 2.2. Setting up Host environment
    • 2.2.1. Host requirements
    • 2.2.2. Host kernel patches to enable DAO on v6.1 kernel
    • 2.2.3. Build KMOD specifically for Host with native compilation(For example x86)
    • 2.2.4. Bind PEM PF and VF to Host Octeon VDPA driver
    • 2.2.5. Tune MRRS and MPS of PEM PF/VF on Host for performance
  • 2.3. Running DPDK testpmd on Host virtio device
    • 2.3.1. Setup huge pages for DPDK application
    • 2.3.2. Increase ulimit for ‘max locked memory’ to unlimited
    • 2.3.3. Example command for DPDK testpmd on host with vhost-vdpa device
  • 2.4. Running DPDK testpmd on virtio-net device on guest
    • 2.4.1. Host requirements for running Guest
    • 2.4.2. Launch guest using Qemu
    • 2.4.3. Launch dpdk-testpmd on guest
  • 2.5. Using VDPA device as Kernel virtio-net device on guest
  • 2.6. Using VDPA device as Kernel virtio-net device on host
• 3. Getting started with SDP on host
  • 3.1. SDP Host driver
  • 3.2. Identify the Octeon PF and VF devices on Host
  • 3.3. Mapping between SDP VFs on Octeon and Host SDP PF/VFs
  • 3.4. Host SDP kernel driver
    • 3.4.1. Build Instructions
    • 3.4.2. Installing the kernel modules
    • 3.4.3. Identify PF/VF kernel netdev interface names on Host
  • 3.5. Host SDP DPDK driver
    • 3.5.1. Build Instructions
    • 3.5.2. Setting up the Environment and bind SDP VF to vfio-pci
  • 3.6. Performance Optimizations
• 4. Octeon Endpoint Agent
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. Getting started with CP Agent
    • 4.2.1. Installing the package
    • 4.2.2. Setting up the Environment
  • 4.3. Runtime Configurations
• 5. Create a Github Pull request