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authorChristian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>2019-04-15 14:36:48 +0200
committerChristian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>2019-04-15 14:39:46 +0200
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New upstream version 18.11.1
Change-Id: Ic52e74a9ed6f3ae06acea4a27357bd7153efc2a3 Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
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@@ -70,6 +70,15 @@ Compilation of the DPDK
* libnuma-dev in Debian/Ubuntu;
+ .. note::
+
+ On systems with NUMA support, `libnuma-dev` (aka `numactl-devel`)
+ is a recommended dependency when `--legacy-mem` switch is used,
+ and a *required* dependency if default memory mode is used.
+ While DPDK will compile and run without `libnuma`
+ even on NUMA-enabled systems,
+ both usability and performance will be degraded.
+
* Python, version 2.7+ or 3.2+, to use various helper scripts included in the DPDK package.