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| author | Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> | 2014-08-07 12:40:34 -0700 |
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| committer | Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> | 2014-08-11 17:16:39 -0700 |
| commit | d1279464ccfc6321075174f04b9df522b24cb674 (patch) | |
| tree | 95ae16a4a397cabac4fb31183919ba3113608753 /INSTALL.DPDK | |
| parent | c640e3ce1b61eb572c3dd120a652fbfdc80758c3 (diff) | |
| download | openvswitch-d1279464ccfc6321075174f04b9df522b24cb674.tar.gz | |
dpdk: Update documentation.
Add usage info for ovs-vswitchd dpdk option. Update
INSTALL.DPDK file and man page.
Reported-by: Hari Sasank Bhamidipalli <hbhamidi@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL.DPDK')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL.DPDK | 5 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL.DPDK b/INSTALL.DPDK index c74fa5cde..4551f4cd9 100644 --- a/INSTALL.DPDK +++ b/INSTALL.DPDK @@ -72,8 +72,6 @@ First setup DPDK devices: 0000:02:00.0 0000:02:00.1 bind module new_id remove_id uevent unbind Prepare system: - - load ovs kernel module - e.g modprobe openvswitch - mount hugetlbfs e.g. mount -t hugetlbfs -o pagesize=1G none /mnt/huge/ @@ -101,7 +99,8 @@ Start ovsdb-server as discussed in INSTALL doc: Start vswitchd: DPDK configuration arguments can be passed to vswitchd via `--dpdk` -argument. dpdk arg -c is ignored by ovs-dpdk, but it is a required parameter +argument. This needs to be first argument passed to vswitchd process. +dpdk arg -c is ignored by ovs-dpdk, but it is a required parameter for dpdk initialization. e.g. |