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| author | Ciara Loftus <ciara.loftus@intel.com> | 2016-08-10 15:28:27 +0100 |
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| committer | Daniele Di Proietto <diproiettod@vmware.com> | 2016-08-12 17:56:43 -0700 |
| commit | 4b88d6787dd5762bc8c5324d3e0ccdc2c341a8df (patch) | |
| tree | 426a879bcc6278861e6918cfab2060db76e239d7 /NEWS | |
| parent | 2b220d1768e80accaca0ff829a0fd53108b34444 (diff) | |
| download | openvswitch-4b88d6787dd5762bc8c5324d3e0ccdc2c341a8df.tar.gz | |
netdev-dpdk: add DPDK pdump capability
This commit provides the ability to 'listen' on DPDK ports and save
packets to a pcap file with a DPDK app that uses the librte_pdump
library. One such app is the 'pdump' app that can be found in the DPDK
'app' directory. Instructions on how to use this can be found in
INSTALL.DPDK-ADVANCED.md
Pdump capability in OVS with DPDK will only be initialised if the
CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_PCAP=y and CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PDUMP=y options are
set in DPDK. libpcap is required if the above configuration is used.
Signed-off-by: Ciara Loftus <ciara.loftus@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniele Di Proietto <diproiettod@vmware.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ Post-v2.5.0 * Basic connection tracking for the userspace datapath (no ALG, fragmentation or NAT support yet) * Support for DPDK 16.07 + * Optional support for DPDK pdump enabled. - Increase number of registers to 16. - ovs-benchmark: This utility has been removed due to lack of use and bitrot. |