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authorChristian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>2017-05-16 14:51:32 +0200
committerChristian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>2017-05-16 16:20:45 +0200
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Imported Upstream version 17.05
Change-Id: Id1e419c5a214e4a18739663b91f0f9a549f1fdc6 Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
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@@ -79,14 +79,12 @@ Compilation of the DPDK
* glibc.ppc64, libgcc.ppc64, libstdc++.ppc64 and glibc-devel.ppc64 for IBM ppc_64;
-.. note::
-
- x86_x32 ABI is currently supported with distribution packages only on Ubuntu
- higher than 13.10 or recent Debian distribution. The only supported compiler is gcc 4.9+.
+ .. note::
-.. note::
+ x86_x32 ABI is currently supported with distribution packages only on Ubuntu
+ higher than 13.10 or recent Debian distribution. The only supported compiler is gcc 4.9+.
- Python, version 2.6 or 2.7, to use various helper scripts included in the DPDK package.
+* Python, version 2.7+ or 3.2+, to use various helper scripts included in the DPDK package.
**Optional Tools:**
@@ -202,6 +200,12 @@ On a NUMA machine, pages should be allocated explicitly on separate nodes::
For 1G pages, it is not possible to reserve the hugepage memory after the system has booted.
+ On IBM POWER system, the nr_overcommit_hugepages should be set to the same value as nr_hugepages.
+ For example, if the required page number is 128, the following commands are used::
+
+ echo 128 > /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-16384kB/nr_hugepages
+ echo 128 > /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-16384kB/nr_overcommit_hugepages
+
Using Hugepages with the DPDK
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^