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It is RFC, is it ready to merge?
Instead of the Linux guide, should we add it to the platform guides?
doc/guides/platform/
We may want to create an entry in MAINTAINERS as well.
More details below.
10/10/2023 17:34, Vipin Varghese:
> Add AMD EPYC SoC tuning guide as new setcion of linux getting
typo: section
> started guide.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vipin Varghese <[email protected]>
> ---
> +This document shares step-by-step guide for configuring AMD EPYC SoC across
> various families for getting best performance for DPDK applications.
> +Various factors like BIOS, Numa Per Socket, Memory per Numa, near-far from
> IO device affects the overall performance.
Numa -> NUMA
> +
> +These are covered in various sections of tuning guides shared below.
> +
> +
> +Tuning Guide for AMD EPYC SoC
> +-----------------------------
> +
> +#. `MILAN
> <https://www.amd.com/content/dam/amd/en/documents/epyc-technical-docs/tuning-guides/data-plane-development-kit-tuning-guide-amd-epyc7003-series-processors.pdf>`_
> +
> +#. `GENOA
> <https://www.amd.com/content/dam/amd/en/documents/epyc-technical-docs/tuning-guides/58017-amd-epyc-9004-tg-data-plane-dpdk.pdf>`_
> +
> +#. `BERGAMO|SIENNA
> <https://www.amd.com/content/dam/amd/en/documents/epyc-technical-docs/tuning-guides/58310_amd-epyc-8004-tg-data-plane-dpdk.pdf>`_
> +
> +
> +General Requirements
> +--------------------
> +
> +Memory
> +~~~~~~
> +
> +Refer `Memory Configuration` section for SoC specific details.
> +
> +Note: general thumb rule is to ensure that each memory channel has at least
> one memory DIMM populated. The ideal memory size for each is at least 8|16|32
> GB ECC modules.
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