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authorMatias Elo <matias.elo@nokia.com>2016-03-23 15:14:39 +0200
committerMaxim Uvarov <maxim.uvarov@linaro.org>2016-03-29 11:32:53 +0300
commite3092b96f69b44abe22e8e65468c03245b7a9fd9 (patch)
tree46f51c2d30115154cc360cd238b17b76fe694784 /DEPENDENCIES
parent815cc95b6b4930a7026afe628519435f93ad1821 (diff)
linux-generic: dpdk: pass ODP_PKTIO_DPDK_PARAMS environment variable to dpdk init
Pass ODP_PKTIO_DPDK_PARAMS environment variable to rte_eal_init(). This can be used to pass DPDK only configuration options from command line. E.g. configuring vdev interfaces. Signed-off-by: Matias Elo <matias.elo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Maxim Uvarov <maxim.uvarov@linaro.org>
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@@ -209,6 +209,11 @@ Prerequisites for building the OpenDataPlane (ODP) API
$ cd <odp_dir>
$ sudo ./test/performance/odp_l2fwd -i 0,1 -c 2 -m 0
+ Additionally, DPDK command line options can be passed to the application
+ using ODP_PKTIO_DPDK_PARAMS environment variable. For example, allocate
+ 1024MB of memory:
+ $ sudo ODP_PKTIO_DPDK_PARAMS="-m 1024" ./test/performance/odp_l2fwd -i 0 -c 1
+
4.0 Packages needed to build API tests
Cunit test framework version 2.1-3 is required