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| author |   Christian Trautman <ctrautma@redhat.com> | 2017-08-09 15:11:15 -0400 |
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| committer |   Martin Klozik <martinx.klozik@intel.com> | 2017-08-18 07:13:38 +0000 |
| commit | f023e531fe8e02cfb2bcc76dd6226746b183e4b4 (patch) | |
| tree | 5372a24237c787d115c598e5ee7f38c0cadec2bf /docs/testing | |
| parent | 73025baf2e393c61c59957e8714d2ddd54d25e51 (diff) | |
driverctl: Add driverctl binding tool
Adds driverctl as a binding tool option for dpdk devices. JIRA
ticket contains test results to verify it works when using
dpdk-devbind or driverctl.
JIRA: VSPERF-525
Change-Id: Ia7a6e43a4b6fb3ba21f5d87d601f4ea4b95b7dab
Signed-off-by: Christian Trautman <ctrautma@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/testing')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/testing/user/configguide/installation.rst | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/testing/user/configguide/installation.rst b/docs/testing/user/configguide/installation.rst index f5b0b7a4..207e50a4 100644 --- a/docs/testing/user/configguide/installation.rst +++ b/docs/testing/user/configguide/installation.rst @@ -256,6 +256,19 @@ running any of the above. For example: .. _vloop-vnf-ubuntu-14.04_20160303: http://artifacts.opnfv.org/vswitchperf/vnf/vloop-vnf-ubuntu-14.04_20160303.qcow2 .. _vloop-vnf-ubuntu-14.04_20151216: http://artifacts.opnfv.org/vswitchperf/vnf/vloop-vnf-ubuntu-14.04_20151216.qcow2 +Bind Tools DPDK +=============== + +VSPerf supports the default DPDK bind tool, but also supports driverctl. The +driverctl tool is a new tool being used that allows driver binding to be +persistent across reboots. The driverctl tool is not provided by VSPerf, but can +be downloaded from upstream sources. Once installed set the bind tool to +driverctl to allow VSPERF to correctly bind cards for DPDK tests. + +.. code:: python + + PATHS['dpdk']['src']['bind-tool'] = 'driverctl' + Hugepage Configuration ---------------------- |