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authorRosemarie O'Riorden <roriorde@redhat.com>2021-07-15 17:37:51 -0400
committerIan Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>2021-07-16 14:00:31 +0100
commitae2424696cff5a8a60db9a961bc366abced77e8d (patch)
tree07f0cbf721a6c263985fad2fbc9e0126d79ef09b /vswitchd
parent15329b728bae1a56818572c6d0260ca8f5bbfd2f (diff)
downloadopenvswitch-ae2424696cff5a8a60db9a961bc366abced77e8d.tar.gz
dpdk: Logs to announce removal of defaults for socket-mem and limit.
Deprecate current OVS provided defaults for DPDK socket-mem and socket-limit that are planned to be removed in OVS 2.17. At that point DPDK defaults will be used instead. Warnings have been added to alert users in advance. Signed-off-by: Rosemarie O'Riorden <roriorde@redhat.com> Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'vswitchd')
-rw-r--r--vswitchd/vswitch.xml8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/vswitchd/vswitch.xml b/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
index e8c0b02ef..5105614b9 100644
--- a/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
+++ b/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
@@ -365,8 +365,10 @@
If dpdk-socket-mem and dpdk-alloc-mem are not specified, dpdk-socket-mem
will be used and the default value is 1024 for each numa node. If
dpdk-socket-mem and dpdk-alloc-mem are specified at same time,
- dpdk-socket-mem will be used as default. Changing this value
- requires restarting the daemon.
+ dpdk-socket-mem will be used as default. With the 2.17 release,
+ dpdk-socket-mem will no longer be used by default. DPDK defaults will
+ be used instead.
+ Changing this value requires restarting the daemon.
</p>
</column>
@@ -388,6 +390,8 @@
options specified or <code>--legacy-mem</code> provided in
<ref column="other_config" key="dpdk-extra"/>, limits will not be
applied.
+ With the 2.17 release, the OVS default value will no longer be
+ provided, and DPDK defaults will be used instead.
Changing this value requires restarting the daemon.
</p>
</column>