From e2bea7436061ca2e7e14bfcfdc5870f2555c3965 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Ehrhardt Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 14:36:48 +0200 Subject: New upstream version 18.11.1 Change-Id: Ic52e74a9ed6f3ae06acea4a27357bd7153efc2a3 Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt --- doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst') diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst index 29c5f47a..1c6f86a2 100644 --- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst +++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst @@ -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. -- cgit 1.2.3-korg