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| -rwxr-xr-x | docs/configguide/installation.rst | 9 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | docs/userguide/testusage.rst | 10 |
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diff --git a/docs/configguide/installation.rst b/docs/configguide/installation.rst index d6161b9a..4ec14197 100755 --- a/docs/configguide/installation.rst +++ b/docs/configguide/installation.rst @@ -141,6 +141,15 @@ your configuration in the ``02_vswitch.conf`` file. .. code:: bash VSWITCHD_DPDK_ARGS = ['-c', '0x4', '-n', '4', '--socket-mem 1024,1024'] + VSWITCHD_DPDK_CONFIG = { + 'dpdk-init' : 'true', + 'dpdk-lcore-mask' : '0x4', + 'dpdk-socket-mem' : '1024,1024', + } + +Note: Option VSWITCHD_DPDK_ARGS is used for vswitchd, which supports --dpdk +parameter. In recent vswitchd versions, option VSWITCHD_DPDK_CONFIG will be +used to configure vswitchd via ovs-vsctl calls. With the --socket-mem argument set to use 1 hugepage on the specified sockets as seen above, the configuration will need 9 hugepages total to run all tests diff --git a/docs/userguide/testusage.rst b/docs/userguide/testusage.rst index 233f7015..104723e3 100755 --- a/docs/userguide/testusage.rst +++ b/docs/userguide/testusage.rst @@ -569,6 +569,16 @@ an appropriate amount of memory: .. code-block:: console VSWITCHD_DPDK_ARGS = ['-c', '0x4', '-n', '4', '--socket-mem 1024,0'] + VSWITCHD_DPDK_CONFIG = { + 'dpdk-init' : 'true', + 'dpdk-lcore-mask' : '0x4', + 'dpdk-socket-mem' : '1024,0', + } + +Note: Option VSWITCHD_DPDK_ARGS is used for vswitchd, which supports --dpdk +parameter. In recent vswitchd versions, option VSWITCHD_DPDK_CONFIG will be +used to configure vswitchd via ovs-vsctl calls. + More information ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |