This patch add a restriction to multi-process support: secondary processes should only run alongside primary process with same DPDK version, so that secondary processes can use the same hugepage mmap layout as primary process.
Signed-off-by: Junjie Chen <junjie.j.c...@intel.com> --- v3 changes: Use 'note' marker to make it clearer. doc/guides/prog_guide/multi_proc_support.rst | 4 ++++ doc/guides/tools/proc_info.rst | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/multi_proc_support.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/multi_proc_support.rst index 9a9dca7fe..4ca3f2c22 100644 --- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/multi_proc_support.rst +++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/multi_proc_support.rst @@ -52,6 +52,10 @@ Standalone DPDK processes are primary processes, while secondary processes can only run alongside a primary process or after a primary process has already configured the hugepage shared memory for them. +.. note:: + + Secondary processes should run alongside primary process with same DPDK version. + To support these two process types, and other multi-process setups described later, two additional command-line parameters are available to the EAL: diff --git a/doc/guides/tools/proc_info.rst b/doc/guides/tools/proc_info.rst index fd17e278c..1b81a7891 100644 --- a/doc/guides/tools/proc_info.rst +++ b/doc/guides/tools/proc_info.rst @@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ statistics, resetting port statistics and printing DPDK memory information. This application extends the original functionality that was supported by dump_cfg. +.. note:: + + dpdk-procinfo should run alongside primary process with same DPDK version. + Running the Application ----------------------- The application has a number of command line options: -- 2.15.0
