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| author |   Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com> | 2018-06-01 09:09:08 +0200 |
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| committer | Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com> | 2018-06-01 09:12:07 +0200 |
| commit | 1bd9b61222f3a81ffe770fc00b70ded6e760c42b (patch) | |
| tree | 0bf7d996cf0664796687c1be6d22958fcf6a8096 /doc/guides/linux_gsg/build_sample_apps.rst | |
| parent | bb4e158029645f37809fcf81a3acddd6fa11f88a (diff) | |
New upstream version 18.05
Change-Id: Icd4170ddc4f63aeae5d0559490e5195b5349f9c2
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
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diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/build_sample_apps.rst b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/build_sample_apps.rst index 39a47b71..3623ddf4 100644 --- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/build_sample_apps.rst +++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/build_sample_apps.rst @@ -110,7 +110,9 @@ The EAL options are as follows: ``[domain:]bus:devid.func`` values. Cannot be used with ``-b`` option. * ``--socket-mem``: - Memory to allocate from hugepages on specific sockets. + Memory to allocate from hugepages on specific sockets. In dynamic memory mode, + this memory will also be pinned (i.e. not released back to the system until + application closes). * ``-d``: Add a driver or driver directory to be loaded. @@ -148,6 +150,14 @@ The EAL options are as follows: * ``--vfio-intr``: Specify interrupt type to be used by VFIO (has no effect if VFIO is not used). +* ``--legacy-mem``: + Run DPDK in legacy memory mode (disable memory reserve/unreserve at runtime, + but provide more IOVA-contiguous memory). + +* ``--single-file-segments``: + Store memory segments in fewer files (dynamic memory mode only - does not + affect legacy memory mode). + The ``-c`` or ``-l`` and option is mandatory; the others are optional. Copy the DPDK application binary to your target, then run the application as follows |