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-rwxr-xr-xdocs/configguide/installation.rst12
-rw-r--r--docs/configguide/trafficgen.rst2
-rwxr-xr-xdocs/userguide/testusage.rst7
3 files changed, 19 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/configguide/installation.rst b/docs/configguide/installation.rst
index c426dcea..048c2675 100755
--- a/docs/configguide/installation.rst
+++ b/docs/configguide/installation.rst
@@ -42,6 +42,12 @@ download at OPNFV website.
vloop-vnf changelog:
====================
+* `vloop-vnf-ubuntu-14.04_20160804`_
+
+ * Linux kernel 4.4.0 installed
+ * libnuma-dev installed
+ * security updates applied
+
* `vloop-vnf-ubuntu-14.04_20160303`_
* snmpd service is disabled by default to avoid error messages during VM boot
@@ -144,6 +150,7 @@ running any of the above. For example:
.. _a link: http://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/python33/
.. _virtualenv: https://virtualenv.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
+.. _vloop-vnf-ubuntu-14.04_20160804: http://artifacts.opnfv.org/vswitchperf/vnf/vloop-vnf-ubuntu-14.04_20160804.qcow2
.. _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
@@ -194,3 +201,8 @@ You can review your hugepage amounts by executing the following command
.. code:: bash
cat /proc/meminfo | grep Huge
+
+If no hugepages are available vsperf will try to automatically allocate some.
+Allocation is controlled by HUGEPAGE_RAM_ALLOCATION configuration parameter in
+``02_vswitch.conf`` file. Default is 2GB, resulting in either 2 1GB hugepages
+or 1024 2MB hugepages.
diff --git a/docs/configguide/trafficgen.rst b/docs/configguide/trafficgen.rst
index 7b2944e9..302a8d5e 100644
--- a/docs/configguide/trafficgen.rst
+++ b/docs/configguide/trafficgen.rst
@@ -385,6 +385,8 @@ can be found here:
https://github.com/emmericp/MoonGen
+* Note: Today, MoonGen with VSPERF only supports 10Gbps line speeds.
+
For VSPerf use, MoonGen should be cloned from here (as opposed to the afore
mentioned GitHub):
diff --git a/docs/userguide/testusage.rst b/docs/userguide/testusage.rst
index d807590d..b5f47998 100755
--- a/docs/userguide/testusage.rst
+++ b/docs/userguide/testusage.rst
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ Execution of test with PCI passthrough with vswitch disabled:
.. code-block:: console
$ ./vsperf --conf-file=<path_to_custom_conf>/10_custom.conf
- --vswtich none --vnf QemuPciPassthrough pvp_tput
+ --vswitch none --vnf QemuPciPassthrough pvp_tput
Any of supported guest-loopback-application_ can be used inside VM with
PCI passthrough support.
@@ -526,7 +526,10 @@ for selected Packet Forwarder:
# testpmd configuration
TESTPMD_ARGS = []
- # packet forwarding mode: io|mac|mac_retry|macswap|flowgen|rxonly|txonly|csum|icmpecho
+ # packet forwarding mode supported by testpmd; Please see DPDK documentation
+ # for comprehensive list of modes supported by your version.
+ # e.g. io|mac|mac_retry|macswap|flowgen|rxonly|txonly|csum|icmpecho|...
+ # Note: Option "mac_retry" has been changed to "mac retry" since DPDK v16.07
TESTPMD_FWD_MODE = 'csum'
# checksum calculation layer: ip|udp|tcp|sctp|outer-ip
TESTPMD_CSUM_LAYER = 'ip'