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authorChristian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>2016-12-08 14:07:29 +0100
committerChristian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>2016-12-08 14:10:05 +0100
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@@ -102,6 +102,9 @@ Refer to rte_kni_common.h in the DPDK source code for more details.
The physical addresses will be re-mapped into the kernel address space and stored in separate KNI contexts.
+The affinity of kernel RX thread (both single and multi-threaded modes) is controlled by force_bind and
+core_id config parameters.
+
The KNI interfaces can be deleted by a DPDK application dynamically after being created.
Furthermore, all those KNI interfaces not deleted will be deleted on the release operation
of the miscellaneous device (when the DPDK application is closed).