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-rwxr-xr-xdocs/configguide/installation.rst9
-rwxr-xr-xdocs/userguide/testusage.rst10
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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
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