The OCTEON TX FPAVF PMD (librte_mempool_octeontx) is a mempool driver for offload mempool device found in Cavium OCTEON TX SoC family.
More information can be found at Cavium, Inc Official Website.
Features of the OCTEON TX FPAVF PMD are:
See :doc: ../platform/octeontx.rst for setup information.
The following options can be modified in the config file. Please note that enabling debugging options may affect system performance.
CONFIG_RTE_MBUF_DEFAULT_MEMPOOL_OPS ( set to octeontx_fpavf)
Set default mempool ops to octeontx_fpavf.
CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_OCTEONTX_MEMPOOL (default y)
Toggle compilation of the librte_mempool_octeontx driver.
To compile the OCTEON TX FPAVF MEMPOOL PMD for Linux arm64 gcc target, run the following make command:
cd <DPDK-source-directory>
make config T=arm64-thunderx-linux-gcc
The OCTEON TX fpavf mempool initialization similar to other mempool drivers like ring. However user need to pass –base-virtaddr as command line input to application example test_mempool.c application.
Example:
./build/app/test -c 0xf --base-virtaddr=0x100000000000 \
--mbuf-pool-ops-name="octeontx_fpavf"