[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: added missing new EAL options in testpmd UG

Pablo de Lara pablo.de.lara.guarch at intel.com
Fri Mar 27 17:50:13 CET 2015


Added information on testpmd user guide
for -l, --lcores and --master-lcore options

Signed-off-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch at intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/run_app.rst |   23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/run_app.rst b/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/run_app.rst
index 3898e67..21e6c27 100644
--- a/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/run_app.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/run_app.rst
@@ -42,6 +42,29 @@ See the DPDK Getting Started Guide for more information on these options.
 
     Set the hexadecimal bitmask of the cores to run on.
 
+*   -l CORELIST
+
+    List of cores to run on
+
+    The argument format is <c1>[-c2][,c3[-c4],...]
+    where c1, c2, etc are core indexes between 0 and 128
+
+*   --lcores COREMAP
+
+    Map lcore set to physical cpu set
+
+    The argument format is
+        '<lcores[@cpus]>[<,lcores[@cpus]>...]'
+    lcores and cpus list are grouped by '(' and ')'
+    Within the group, '-' is used for range separator,
+    ',' is used for single number separator.
+    '( )' can be omitted for single element group,
+    '@' can be omitted if cpus and lcores have the same value
+
+*   --master-lcore ID
+
+    Core ID that is used as master
+
 *   -n NUM
 
     Set the number of memory channels to use.
-- 
1.7.4.1



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