Hi Christian, Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrha...@canonical.com> writes: > To enable DPDK it needs a positional parameter to ovs-vswitchd. > Since everybody is encouranged to use the project provided ovs-ctl > scripts to start/stop the daemons it should allow an external setting of > these options via an environment variable. > > This patch adds $DPDK_OPTS which will be inserted in the call to > ovs-vswitchd arguments early.
There is an effort underway to move DPDK options from the command line to the openvswitch database. See the progress at http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2016-January/064735.html If that series is accepted, this patch is invalid. > Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrha...@canonical.com> > --- > debian/openvswitch-switch.template | 4 ++++ > utilities/ovs-ctl.in | 6 +++++- > 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/debian/openvswitch-switch.template > b/debian/openvswitch-switch.template > index d7c7796..27cf7b5 100644 > --- a/debian/openvswitch-switch.template > +++ b/debian/openvswitch-switch.template > @@ -6,3 +6,7 @@ > # OVS_CTL_OPTS: Extra options to pass to ovs-ctl. This is, for example, > # a suitable place to specify --ovs-vswitchd-wrapper=valgrind. > # OVS_CTL_OPTS= > + > +# DPDK options - see /usr/share/doc/openvswitch-common/INSTALL.DPDK.md.gz > +# these are passed to ovs-vswitchd obeying to the positional requirements > +# DPDK_OPTS='--dpdk -vhost_sock_dir /var/run/openvswitch-vhost -c 0x1 -n 4' > diff --git a/utilities/ovs-ctl.in b/utilities/ovs-ctl.in > index 0082bed..7b3a3bf 100755 > --- a/utilities/ovs-ctl.in > +++ b/utilities/ovs-ctl.in > @@ -215,7 +215,11 @@ start_forwarding () { > fi > > # Start ovs-vswitchd. > - set ovs-vswitchd unix:"$DB_SOCK" > + set ovs-vswitchd > + if test X"$DPDK_OPTS" != X; then > + set "$@" $DPDK_OPTS -- > + fi > + set "$@" unix:"$DB_SOCK" > set "$@" -vconsole:emer -vsyslog:err -vfile:info > if test X"$MLOCKALL" != Xno; then > set "$@" --mlockall _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
