From ae2424696cff5a8a60db9a961bc366abced77e8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rosemarie O'Riorden Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 17:37:51 -0400 Subject: 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 Acked-by: Kevin Traynor Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes --- Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst b/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst index 612f2fdbc..d8fa931fa 100644 --- a/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst +++ b/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst @@ -291,7 +291,8 @@ listed below. Defaults will be provided for all values not explicitly set. ``dpdk-socket-mem`` Comma separated list of memory to pre-allocate from hugepages on specific sockets. If not specified, 1024 MB will be set for each numa node by - default. + default. This behavior will change with the 2.17 release, with no default + value from OVS. Instead, DPDK default will be used. ``dpdk-hugepage-dir`` Directory where hugetlbfs is mounted -- cgit v1.2.1