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authorBala Sankaran <bsankara@redhat.com>2018-09-14 10:11:58 -0400
committerIan Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>2018-10-12 15:23:49 +0100
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system-dpdk: Skip all tests if there are no hugepages
A failure is quite harsh in this scenario. It's better to simply skip all the tests and let the user look at the logs to understand the missing hugepages. Signed-off-by: Bala Sankaran <bsankara@redhat.com> Co-authored-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
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@@ -322,6 +322,12 @@ the NIC to the DPDK-compatible driver.
.. _DPDK supported NIC: http://dpdk.org/doc/nics
+All tests are skipped if no hugepages are configured. User must look into the DPDK
+manual to figure out how to `Configure hugepages`_.
+The phy test will skip if no compatible physical device is available.
+
+.. _Configure hugepages: http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.html
+
Kernel datapath
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