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authorAnand B Jyoti <anand.b.jyoti@intel.com>2017-07-04 10:26:39 +0530
committerDeepak S <deepak.s@linux.intel.com>2017-07-14 06:23:48 +0000
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docs: Update install and release docs for DPDK migration support
JIRA: SAMPLEVNF-48 Updating INSTALL.rst and RELEASE_NOTES.rst for DPDK migration support. The additional files are created to make it as per the opnfv document standard to generate the html files. Change-Id: I4b0af4c3afeef91fc806285b02c0ce47d61ebfbd Signed-off-by: Anand B Jyoti <anand.b.jyoti@intel.com>
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@@ -4,25 +4,25 @@
.. (c) OPNFV, National Center of Scientific Research "Demokritos" and others.
=========================================================
-Virtual ACL - vACL
+vACL - Release Notes
=========================================================
-1. Introduction
-================
+Introduction
+===================
This is a beta release for Sample Virtual ACL VNF.
This vACL can application can be run independently (refer INSTALL.rst).
-2. User Guide
+User Guide
===============
Refer to README.rst for further details on vACL, HLD, features supported, test
plan. For build configurations and execution requisites please refer to
INSTALL.rst.
-3. Feature for this release
+Feature for this release
===========================
The vACL VNF currently supports the following functionality:
- • CLI based Run-time rule configuration.(Add, Delete, List, Display, Clear, Modify)
+ • CLI based Run-time rule configuration.(Add,Delete,List,Display,Clear,Modify)
• Ipv4 and ipv6 standard 5 tuple packet Selector support.
• Multithread support
• Multiple physical port support
@@ -32,38 +32,50 @@ The vACL VNF currently supports the following functionality:
• ICMP (terminal echo, echo response, passthrough)
• ICMPv6 and ND (Neighbor Discovery)
-4. System requirements - OS and kernel version
+System requirements - OS and kernel version
==============================================
-This is supported on Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 16.04 and kernel version less than 4.5
+This is supported on Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 and kernel version less than 4.5
VNFs on BareMetal support:
- OS: Ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04 LTS
- kernel: < 4.5
- http://releases.ubuntu.com/16.04/
- Download/Install the image: ubuntu-16.04.1-server-amd64.iso
+ OS: Ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04 LTS
+ kernel: < 4.5
+ http://releases.ubuntu.com/16.04/
+ Download/Install the image: ubuntu-16.04.1-server-amd64.iso
VNFs on Standalone Hypervisor
- HOST OS: Ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04 LTS
- http://releases.ubuntu.com/16.04/
- Download/Install the image: ubuntu-16.04.1-server-amd64.iso
- - OVS (DPDK) - 2.5
- - kernel: < 4.5
- - Hypervisor - KVM
- - VM OS - Ubuntu 16.04/Ubuntu 14.04
+ HOST OS: Ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04 LTS
+ http://releases.ubuntu.com/16.04/
+ Download/Install the image: ubuntu-16.04.1-server-amd64.iso
-5. Known Bugs and limitations
+ - OVS (DPDK) - 2.5
+ - kernel: < 4.5
+ - Hypervisor - KVM
+ - VM OS - Ubuntu 16.04/Ubuntu 14.04
+
+Known Bugs and limitations
=============================
- - Hardware Load Balancer feature is supported on Fortville nic ACL version 4.53 and below.
+ - Hardware Load Balancer feature is supported on Fortville nic ACL
+ version 4.53 and below.
- Hardware Checksum offload is not supported for IPv6 traffic.
- vACL on sriov is tested upto 4 threads
-6. Future Work
+Future Work
==============
Following would be possible enhancements
- Performance optimization on different platforms
-7. References
+References
=============
-Following links provides additional information
- .. _QUICKSTART: http://dpdk.org/doc/guides-16.04/linux_gsg/quick_start.html
- .. _DPDKGUIDE: http://dpdk.org/doc/guides-16.04/prog_guide/index.html
+Following links provides additional information for differenet version of DPDKs
+
+.. _QUICKSTART:
+ http://dpdk.org/doc/guides-16.04/linux_gsg/quick_start.html
+ http://dpdk.org/doc/guides-16.11/linux_gsg/quick_start.html
+ http://dpdk.org/doc/guides-17.02/linux_gsg/quick_start.html
+ http://dpdk.org/doc/guides-17.05/linux_gsg/quick_start.html
+
+.. _DPDKGUIDE:
+ http://dpdk.org/doc/guides-16.04/prog_guide/index.html
+ http://dpdk.org/doc/guides-16.11/prog_guide/index.html
+ http://dpdk.org/doc/guides-17.02/prog_guide/index.html
+ http://dpdk.org/doc/guides-17.05/prog_guide/index.html