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authorMartin Klozik <martinx.klozik@intel.com>2016-08-18 13:14:27 +0000
committerGerrit Code Review <gerrit@172.30.200.206>2016-08-18 13:14:27 +0000
commit21c787b5bb7dd4592bc83718756ac670232a8347 (patch)
tree451c046251362978e86850488d3577969f5fe0d1 /docs/userguide
parent99e50b9aa86d3bd92d23a32ff34b5f80b9b3e4da (diff)
parent32361ffed1efce856e56a04029dcb72e5dcbf02d (diff)
Merge "old_style_multi-queue: Allows for multi-queue with ovs <= 2.5.0"
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diff --git a/docs/userguide/testusage.rst b/docs/userguide/testusage.rst
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+++ b/docs/userguide/testusage.rst
@@ -463,6 +463,13 @@ VSPerf currently supports multi-queue with the following limitations:
default upstream package versions installed by VSPerf satisfy this
requirement.
+ 5. If using OVS versions 2.5.0 or less enable old style multi-queue as shown in
+ the ''02_vswitch.conf'' file.
+
+ .. code-block:: console
+
+ OVS_OLD_STYLE_MQ = True
+
To enable multi-queue modify the ''02_vswitch.conf'' file to enable multi-queue
on the switch.
@@ -476,7 +483,9 @@ applies by checking /sys/class/net/<eth_name>/device/numa_node and setting an
appropriate mask to create PMD threads on the same numa node.
When multi-queue is enabled, each dpdk or dpdkvhostuser port that is created
-on the switch will set the option for multiple queues.
+on the switch will set the option for multiple queues. If old style multi queue
+has been enabled a global option for multi queue will be used instead of the
+port by port option.
To enable multi-queue on the guest modify the ''04_vnf.conf'' file.