Add usage info for ovs-vswitchd dpdk option. Update
INSTALL.DPDK file and man page.
Reported-by: Hari Sasank Bhamidipalli <hbham...@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshe...@nicira.com>
---
AUTHORS | 1 +
INSTALL.DPDK | 5 ++---
vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd.8.in | 4 ++++
vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd.c | 2 ++
4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index d1756ee..8c5940d 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -201,6 +201,7 @@ Greg Dahlman gdahl...@hotmail.com
Gregor Schaffrath gr...@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de
Guolin Yang gy...@vmware.com
Gur Stavi gst...@mrv.com
+Hari Sasank Bhamidipalli hbham...@cisco.com
Hassan Khan hassan.k...@seecs.edu.pk
Hector Oron hector.o...@gmail.com
Henrik Amren hen...@nicira.com
diff --git a/INSTALL.DPDK b/INSTALL.DPDK
index c74fa5c..4551f4c 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.
diff --git a/vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd.8.in b/vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd.8.in
index 0fd13e3..6e4929c 100644
--- a/vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd.8.in
+++ b/vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd.8.in
@@ -83,6 +83,10 @@ only allow privileged users, such as the superuser, to use
it.
\fBovs\-vswitchd\fR emits a log message if \fBmlockall()\fR is
unavailable or unsuccessful.
.
+.SS "DPDK Options"
+.IP "\fB\-\-dpdk\fR"
+Initialize \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR DPDK datapath. Refer to INSTALL.DPDK
+for details.
.SS "Daemon Options"
.ds DD \
\fBovs\-vswitchd\fR detaches only after it has connected to the \
diff --git a/vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd.c b/vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd.c
index 3c843e1..4d7e4f0 100644
--- a/vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd.c
+++ b/vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd.c
@@ -250,6 +250,8 @@ usage(void)
stream_usage("DATABASE", true, false, true);
daemon_usage();
vlog_usage();
+ printf("\nDPDK options:\n"
+ " --dpdk options Initialize DPDK datapath.\n");
printf("\nOther options:\n"
" --unixctl=SOCKET override default control socket name\n"
" -h, --help display this help message\n"
--
1.9.3
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