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authorChristian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>2018-06-01 09:09:08 +0200
committerChristian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>2018-06-04 15:56:02 +0200
commit15dedf321036ae67c61f35a3ab55de767b07801f (patch)
tree08e18a1b8bb1339a8a8b68802fe4c4ad09b9cdfb /doc/guides/linux_gsg
parent9f3a8cb4cfe59ea63e267f69700fb0fde13d7dd3 (diff)
New upstream version 18.05upstream-18.05-stable
Change-Id: Ib515da8d5db1114f07a5fe26239d1c2061007c1c Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/guides/linux_gsg')
-rw-r--r--doc/guides/linux_gsg/build_sample_apps.rst12
-rw-r--r--doc/guides/linux_gsg/linux_drivers.rst2
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
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
diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/linux_drivers.rst b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/linux_drivers.rst
index 14381eed..371a817f 100644
--- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/linux_drivers.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/linux_drivers.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
Copyright(c) 2010-2015 Intel Corporation.
- Copyright(c) 2017 Mellanox Corporation.
+ Copyright 2017 Mellanox Technologies, Ltd
All rights reserved.
.. _linux_gsg_linux_drivers: