With the default use of --in-memory, OVS does not require
hugetlbfs to be mounted to work with DPDK.
Besides, testpmd runs fine in this mode too.
Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.march...@redhat.com>
---
Documentation/howto/dpdk.rst | 2 +-
Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst | 12 ++----------
Documentation/topics/dpdk/vhost-user.rst | 2 --
3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/dpdk.rst b/Documentation/howto/dpdk.rst
index 137159a586..493e2c99e5 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/dpdk.rst
+++ b/Documentation/howto/dpdk.rst
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ within the guest. To accomplish this, build the
``dpdk-testpmd`` application as
described in :ref:`dpdk-testpmd`. Once compiled, run the application::
$ cd /path/to/dpdk/build/
- $ ./dpdk-testpmd -c 0x3 --socket-mem 1024 -- --burst=64 -i
+ $ ./dpdk-testpmd -c 0x3 --in-memory -- --burst=64 -i
$ set fwd mac retry
$ start
diff --git a/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst
b/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst
index 2d97149c46..a1939f9041 100644
--- a/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst
+++ b/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst
@@ -217,10 +217,6 @@ To verify hugepage configuration::
$ grep HugePages_ /proc/meminfo
-Mount the hugepages, if not already mounted by default::
-
- $ mount -t hugetlbfs none /dev/hugepages
-
.. note::
The amount of hugepage memory required can be affected by various
@@ -297,7 +293,7 @@ listed below. Defaults will be provided for all values not
explicitly set.
default will be used instead.
``dpdk-hugepage-dir``
- Directory where hugetlbfs is mounted
+ Directory where hugetlbfs is mounted.
``vhost-sock-dir``
Option to set the path to the vhost-user unix socket files.
@@ -421,7 +417,7 @@ steps to identify right PCIe slot.
Advanced Hugepage Setup
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-Allocate and mount 1 GB hugepages.
+Allocate 1 GB hugepages.
- For persistent allocation of huge pages, add the following options to the
kernel bootline::
@@ -454,10 +450,6 @@ Allocate and mount 1 GB hugepages.
For run-time allocation of 1G huge pages, Contiguous Memory Allocator
(``CONFIG_CMA``) has to be supported by kernel, check your Linux distro.
-Now mount the huge pages, if not already done so::
-
- $ mount -t hugetlbfs -o pagesize=1G none /dev/hugepages
-
Isolate Cores
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/Documentation/topics/dpdk/vhost-user.rst
b/Documentation/topics/dpdk/vhost-user.rst
index 52bbfeb32f..0c0054b754 100644
--- a/Documentation/topics/dpdk/vhost-user.rst
+++ b/Documentation/topics/dpdk/vhost-user.rst
@@ -410,8 +410,6 @@ DPDK sources to VM and build DPDK as described in
:ref:`dpdk-install`.
Setup huge pages and DPDK devices using VFIO::
$ sysctl vm.nr_hugepages=1024
- $ mkdir -p /dev/hugepages
- $ mount -t hugetlbfs hugetlbfs /dev/hugepages # only if not already
mounted
$ driverctl set-override 0000:00:03.0 vfio-pci
$ driverctl set-override 0000:00:04.0 vfio-pci
--
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