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authorMartin Klozik <martinx.klozik@intel.com>2016-05-05 14:59:32 +0100
committerMartin Klozik <martinx.klozik@intel.com>2016-05-06 10:06:11 +0100
commitfdfd540284e31d9349173285619f5927aa8fc057 (patch)
tree93426222eb2e4de0095cc6c965e411539b69420e /docs/configguide/installation.rst
parent22ffe5b07adeb514572dc3db8b435ef4107e348b (diff)
dpdk: Support new way of DPDK configuration in ovs-vswitchd
Configuration of DPDK options in ovs-vswitchd has changed. Previously used option --dpdk was deprecated and all DPDK related options have to be configured through ovsdb via ovs-vsctl calls. VSPERF was modified to detect and use correct version of DPDK configuration. New configuration options should be put into VSWITCHD_DPDK_CONFIG dictionary. VSPERF classes specific to OVS were refactored. Change-Id: Ia3fad5906221439f477638f1f9734289dbf737bb JIRA: VSPERF-291 Signed-off-by: Martin Klozik <martinx.klozik@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Maryam Tahhan <maryam.tahhan@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Al Morton <acmorton@att.com> Reviewed-by: Christian Trautman <ctrautma@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Brian Castelli <brian.castelli@spirent.com>
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@@ -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