Nathan Brown authored Jan 10, 2024 and Nathan Brown committed Jan 22, 2024

When installing python in Ubuntu 20.04, apt will install
python-is-python2. This is incompatible with the repo utility, which
requires at least python3.6. Subsequent uses of repo will fail with
an obscure "Syntax Error" error message.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Brown <nathan.brown@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Dhruv Tripathi <dhruv.tripathi@arm.com>

Change-Id: Id7cf2c09629a73afa0e038970916253154eedc6c

Yefeng Lin authored Dec 07, 2023 and Liangxing Wang committed Dec 08, 2023

- Add IPSec use case into 'Supported Use Cases' section
- Remove IPSec use case from 'Future Use Cases' section

Signed-off-by: Yefeng Lin <yefeng.lin@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Brown <nathan.brown@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Liangxing Wang <liangxing.wang@arm.com>

Change-Id: I70c2130f969158faf83deee9225ac7d755a21f42

Liangxing Wang authored Dec 06, 2023 and Liangxing Wang committed Dec 08, 2023

Add a git apply option to suppress space before tab in indent warnings
when applying patches. Those warnings are triggered by dpdk code format.

Signed-off-by: Liangxing Wang <liangxing.wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Brown <nathan.brown@arm.com>
Change-Id: I5c3e979a4c2cdb23d6e8f4f759c40f7bcef4ae11

Yefeng Lin authored Dec 07, 2023 and Liangxing Wang committed Dec 07, 2023

The PID file paths in 'stop.sh' are not consistent with the
other scripts and need to be corrected.

Signed-off-by: Yefeng Lin <yefeng.lin@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Liangxing Wang <liangxing.wang@arm.com>
Change-Id: Ic4d68d2da5e9f8274094de505a0c305263818539

Yefeng Lin authored Nov 25, 2023 and Liangxing Wang committed Dec 05, 2023

- update user guide doc and setup scripts
- on switch side replace VPP memif with DPDK memif
  and enable zero-copy
- on traffic generator side allocate isolated core for TG.

Signed-off-by: Yefeng Lin <yefeng.lin@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Brown <nathan.brown@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Liangxing Wang <liangxing.wang@arm.com>
Change-Id: I504691723a1f00d363030f2a57fef262b16a073f

- Add IPSec case setup scripts
- Add IPSec case user guide
- Support for DPDK memif and physical NIC interfaces

Signed-off-by: Yefeng Lin <yefeng.lin@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Brown <nathan.brown@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Lijian Zhang <lijian.zhang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Liangxing Wang <liangxing.wang@arm.com>

Change-Id: I9254bca108bd470eb5fc23f5cb3bd09234dea760

- Add memif connection section
- Update Ethernet connection section

Signed-off-by: Liangxing Wang <liangxing.wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Brown <nathan.brown@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Yefeng Lin <yefeng.lin@arm.com>
Change-Id: Ib070d0949086d5a51b60e235172a53232090c0da

Resolve warnings reported by shellcheck for scripts of L3 forwarding
usecase.

Signed-off-by: Liangxing Wang <liangxing.wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Brown <nathan.brown@arm.com>
Change-Id: I12963b0d4a1118886e8f4ecc31b5de11621e0515

Doc build fails on ubuntu 22.04 due to Sphinx 4.0.2 compatibility issue
with default Python 3.10. Upgrade Sphinx version to resolve the issue.

Signed-off-by: Liangxing Wang <liangxing.wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Brown <nathan.brown@arm.com>
Change-Id: Ia80dc648bc02bd0887ff1a739b88a14759e7fec6

Liangxing Wang authored Nov 09, 2023 and Liangxing Wang committed Nov 14, 2023

Add a -l option to configure octet length for Ethernet packets produced
by VPP traffic generator.

Signed-off-by: Liangxing Wang <liangxing.wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Brown <nathan.brown@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com>
Change-Id: Ifeccf14dbf646a5917f3ab5c358162018885e75a

These are VPP merged patches to resolve VPP build failures with GCC 12
or newer version. These patches will be removed after VPP version in
dataplane-stack is upgraded next time.

Signed-off-by: Yefeng Lin <yefeng.lin@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Liangxing Wang <liangxing.wang@arm.com>

Change-Id: I9195542217fe0b81662dcb988e2c23a4e6e3e170

Liangxing Wang authored Nov 08, 2023 and Liangxing Wang committed Nov 10, 2023

- Update DPDK version from v22.11 to v23.07 in doc reference links.
- Update VPP version from v23.02 to v23.10 in doc reference links.
- Remove two VPP patches included in VPP v23.10.
- Update two VPP patches for VPP v23.10.
- Update L2 switching user guide and scripts to use separate runtime
  directories for VPP switch and traffic generator. This is needed by
  VPP v23.10.

Signed-off-by: Liangxing Wang <liangxing.wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Brown <nathan.brown@arm.com>
Change-Id: I3e9093a8c307b05a076ca393010da2a48724410f

Liangxing Wang authored Jul 28, 2023 and Liangxing Wang committed Oct 19, 2023

- Add L3 forwarding case scripts
- Support DPDK memif and physical NIC interfaces

Signed-off-by: Liangxing Wang <liangxing.wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Brown <nathan.brown@arm.com>
Change-Id: I97d56988bd19ed7b6da2146294f10f4aac0b4691

This is a merged VPP patch that can fix assertion error when
DPDK memif interface is used in VPP. This patch will be removed
after VPP version in dataplane-stack is upgraded to v23.10.

Signed-off-by: Liangxing Wang <liangxing.wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Brown <nathan.brown@arm.com>
Change-Id: I5873ff0c0908b2f202db90c04a5118d76180c93c

Liangxing Wang authored Oct 12, 2023 and Liangxing Wang committed Oct 18, 2023

This is a VPP patch to add multi-arch support for
Neoverse N2 CPU. This patch will be removed after VPP version in
dataplane-stack is upgraded to v23.10.

Signed-off-by: Liangxing Wang <liangxing.wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Brown <nathan.brown@arm.com>
Change-Id: I13aa780954c5a8c0592c68af52cc2704ba6ca2ae

Liangxing Wang authored Oct 11, 2023 and Liangxing Wang committed Oct 18, 2023

This is a VPP patch to enable DPDK memif interface in
client role to send and receive packets in zero-copy method.

Signed-off-by: Liangxing Wang <liangxing.wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Brown <nathan.brown@arm.com>
Change-Id: I594bd2c3fef71dfe2133afd2266324b77051796c

Liangxing Wang authored Oct 12, 2023 and Liangxing Wang committed Oct 17, 2023

This is a VPP patch to support 128B/64B cache line size
in generic and native VPP images on Arm CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Liangxing Wang <liangxing.wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Brown <nathan.brown@arm.com>
Change-Id: I390f5884557cf1d4fafc5253d2597d940ca3748a

Add warning comments to configuration files.
Remind users to be cautious when modifying configuration items.

Signed-off-by: Yefeng Lin <yefeng.lin@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Liangxing Wang <liangxing.wang@arm.com>

Change-Id: I42e21ca2a68dcb6ac8e5e7797812798569f48bf0

Yefeng Lin authored May 06, 2023 and Liangxing Wang committed Jul 27, 2023

Remove the newly added use-case from the 'Future Use Cases' section.

Signed-off-by: Yefeng Lin <yefeng.lin@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Brown <nathan.brown@arm.com>
Change-Id: Ia5a16d84f313dc7459c53a3be8082c6d616eddd9

Copyright (c) 2022 replace with  Copyright (c) 2022-2023

Signed-off-by: Yefeng Lin <yefeng.lin@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Brown <nathan.brown@arm.com>

Change-Id: I084397cc0f06ac802aae20ff60518ccc9f23885a

Liangxing Wang authored Apr 28, 2023 and Liangxing Wang committed Apr 29, 2023

Update release tag for dataplane-stack 23.05 release in quick start
guide and user guide.

Signed-off-by: Liangxing Wang <liangxing.wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Brown <nathan.brown@arm.com>
Change-Id: I9bde83f0fc7e2b9274f5c8f9e3e9be25d4163240

Check the distro that a user is using before
proceeding to 'apt-get install'.

Signed-off-by: Yefeng Lin <yefeng.lin@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Liangxing Wang <liangxing.wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Brown <nathan.brown@arm.com>

Change-Id: I043428a331e9a78299de5b2a0bf984041582c958

Liangxing Wang authored Apr 18, 2023 and Liangxing Wang committed Apr 28, 2023

Add dataplane-stack 23.05 release note.

Signed-off-by: Liangxing Wang <liangxing.wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Brown <nathan.brown@arm.com>
Change-Id: I3e5fb3d1445279166e11cd8f3de4cd1029fca394

Liangxing Wang authored Apr 26, 2023 and Liangxing Wang committed Apr 28, 2023

Resolve some double quote and variable printf issues reported
by shell static analysis.

Signed-off-by: Liangxing Wang <liangxing.wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Brown <nathan.brown@arm.com>
Change-Id: Ie643f558583e55e79b2faf0306b599e45b0bf9eb

Yefeng Lin authored Apr 24, 2023 and Liangxing Wang committed Apr 27, 2023

- Fix some typos in docs
- Adjust sentences structure
- Update words list

Signed-off-by: Yefeng Lin <yefeng.lin@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Liangxing Wang <liangxing.wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Brown <nathan.brown@arm.com>

Change-Id: I2dbe98237c618719eedf36d4a11cc4e92e6a26d9

Resolve space and indentation issues reported by Python static analysis.

Signed-off-by: Liangxing Wang <liangxing.wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Brown <nathan.brown@arm.com>

Change-Id: I95a051123ed5de06727190c0b99052f9febffcba

Yefeng Lin authored Apr 25, 2023 and Liangxing Wang committed Apr 27, 2023

- Update maintainer email to dataplane-stack@arm.com
- Update MAINTAINERS descriptions

Signed-off-by: Yefeng Lin <yefeng.lin@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Liangxing Wang <liangxing.wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Brown <nathan.brown@arm.com>

Change-Id: I9051018cef09293076179a8bc9969eca1f4beb4f

Nathan Brown authored Apr 21, 2023 and Liangxing Wang committed Apr 27, 2023

Documentation spellcheck reported a handful of misspelled words. Many
were false positives, and were added to the allowlist. Any spelling
mistakes have been corrected.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Brown <nathan.brown@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Liangxing Wang <liangxing.wang@arm.com>
Change-Id: I9ce90ff0ea6af628a7e685e64034acab86649d93

Nathan Brown authored Apr 21, 2023 and Liangxing Wang committed Apr 27, 2023

FAQ instructions used to inform user how to install the latest firmware
version for their NIC. End user may want to install a particular
version, so add steps detailing how to do so.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Brown <nathan.brown@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Liangxing Wang <liangxing.wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Yefeng Lin <yefeng.lin@arm.com>
Change-Id: I6d1fca72bfea602d6d418e1f140b482fd3baa80e

Yefeng Lin authored Apr 24, 2023 and Liangxing Wang committed Apr 27, 2023

Export vpp_binary and vppctl_binary variables before being referenced.

Signed-off-by: Yefeng Lin <yefeng.lin@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Tianyu Li <tianyu.li@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Liangxing Wang <liangxing.wang@arm.com>

Change-Id: Ie90f3aed87e4589e82a4903648e81e895f482598

Yefeng Lin authored Apr 21, 2023 and Liangxing Wang committed Apr 27, 2023

There is an extra NUL(\0) byte at the end of pidfile
due to iperf3 bug. When stop iperf3 server by pidfile
will raise warning:
command substitution: ignored null byte in input.

Signed-off-by: Yefeng Lin <yefeng.lin@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Tianyu Li <tianyu.li@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Brown <nathan.brown@arm.com>

Change-Id: I51228fa20304087d69e9d44c0a4238a3c21e1b7e

Yefeng Lin authored Apr 21, 2023 and Liangxing Wang committed Apr 27, 2023

- Update release version to 23.05
- Update copyright year to 2022-2023

Signed-off-by: Yefeng Lin <yefeng.lin@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Liangxing Wang <liangxing.wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Tianyu Li <tianyu.li@arm.com>
Change-Id: Ic9e5a1891f92fad1884284b372c2eecaf67e658c

Yefeng Lin authored Apr 12, 2023 and Liangxing Wang committed Apr 27, 2023

- Limit VPP's worker threads to use a single CPU core.
- Cleanup VPP instance if interface set up failed.
- Stop process of VPP and nginx by pid.
- Fix some typos.

Signed-off-by: Yefeng Lin <yefeng.lin@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Liangxing Wang <liangxing.wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Brown <nathan.brown@arm.com>

Change-Id: Ib47c8150d93f865b38b71ad6b9357d607caab445

NGINX systemd service will be started automatically after NGINX
package is installed in setup.sh. Provide a note for end user to
be aware of this behavior and stop it.

Signed-off-by: Liangxing Wang <liangxing.wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Brown <nathan.brown@arm.com>
Change-Id: I0b1331c32212b467e4c06246aec1db386e814ce6

Nathan Brown authored Apr 18, 2023 and Liangxing Wang committed Apr 27, 2023

Setup script requires at least 5 CPUs on the DUT. Update the
documentation to reflect this.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Brown <nathan.brown@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Liangxing Wang <liangxing.wang@arm.com>
Change-Id: Ic6cb09664e58670c703cc8802e34b9a4c8804d47

Nathan Brown authored Apr 14, 2023 and Liangxing Wang committed Apr 27, 2023

Remove from both overview and FAQ entries.
Update solution architecture image.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Brown <nathan.brown@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Yefeng Lin <yefeng.lin@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Liangxing Wang <liangxing.wang@arm.com>

Change-Id: I48fecfe66914d03e8df3b65a9bb27e2d426cabf6

The DUT kernel version link is broken. Actually users don't need
to use specific kernel version to run dataplane stack.

Signed-off-by: Liangxing Wang <liangxing.wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Brown <nathan.brown@arm.com>
Change-Id: Iad84af6b1ac58742dfd7ffe281448b7520246eb7

Change routed IP address from 10.0.0.0/32 to 10.0.0.1/32 for
consistency with "show ip fib" output and better understanding.

Signed-off-by: Liangxing Wang <liangxing.wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Brown <nathan.brown@arm.com>
Change-Id: I7a3b646629e0af1455120612a500eb45e247c551

Nathan Brown authored Apr 14, 2023 and Liangxing Wang committed Apr 27, 2023

- Provide missing command before sample output
- Improve syntax highlighting
- Provide missing ip neighbor command for suggested experiment

Signed-off-by: Nathan Brown <nathan.brown@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Liangxing Wang <liangxing.wang@arm.com>
Change-Id: I6d56449e4e6dfd7f3c1807fbcf80d48fdb7b8a5e

Nathan Brown authored Apr 14, 2023 and Liangxing Wang committed Apr 27, 2023

Update overview section to include information on new features and
updates to repository structure.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Brown <nathan.brown@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Liangxing Wang <liangxing.wang@arm.com>
Change-Id: I2c69f2aca38442d35a115f5d6efcba8bb92894ca