bugfix: Remove dependency on ifconfig

[vswitchperf.git] / conf / 02_vswitch.conf

diff --git a/conf/02_vswitch.conf b/conf/02_vswitch.conf
index 67f9699..7f9daf1 100644 (file)
--- a/conf/02_vswitch.conf
+++ b/conf/02_vswitch.conf
@@ -69,8 +69,22 @@ VHOST_USER_SOCKS = ['/tmp/dpdkvhostuser0', '/tmp/dpdkvhostuser1',
 # ############################
 # These are DPDK EAL parameters and they may need to be changed depending on
 # hardware configuration, like cpu numbering and NUMA.
+#
+# parameters used for legacy DPDK configuration through '--dpdk' option of ovs-vswitchd
+# e.g. ovs-vswitchd --dpdk --socket-mem 1024,0
 VSWITCHD_DPDK_ARGS = ['-c', '0x4', '-n', '4', '--socket-mem 1024,0']
 
+# options used for new type of OVS configuration via calls to ovs-vsctl
+# e.g. ovs-vsctl --no-wait set Open_vSwitch . other_config:dpdk-socket-mem="1024,0"
+VSWITCHD_DPDK_CONFIG = {
+    'dpdk-init' : 'true',
+    'dpdk-lcore-mask' : '0x4',
+    'dpdk-socket-mem' : '1024,0',
+}
+# Note: VSPERF will automatically detect, which type of DPDK configuration should
+# be used.
+
+# parameters passed to ovs-vswitchd in case that OvsVanilla is selected
 VSWITCHD_VANILLA_ARGS = []
 
 # use full module path to load module matching OVS version built from the source