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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> | 2018-06-04 15:56:02 +0200 |
commit | 15dedf321036ae67c61f35a3ab55de767b07801f (patch) | |
tree | 08e18a1b8bb1339a8a8b68802fe4c4ad09b9cdfb /doc/guides/linux_gsg/build_sample_apps.rst | |
parent | 9f3a8cb4cfe59ea63e267f69700fb0fde13d7dd3 (diff) |
New upstream version 18.05upstream-18.05-stable
Change-Id: Ib515da8d5db1114f07a5fe26239d1c2061007c1c
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 |