[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: update pdump documentation

[David Marchand]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 2:58 PM Reshma Pattan <reshma.pattan at intel.com> wrote:
>
> Update the pdump library programmers guide and Howto doc
> with the use of multi process channel replacing socket
> based communication.
>
> Signed-off-by: Reshma Pattan <reshma.pattan at intel.com>
> Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>

[snip]

>  The library APIs ``rte_pdump_disable()`` and ``rte_pdump_disable_by_deviceid()`` disables the packet capture.
> -On each call to these APIs, the library creates a separate client socket, creates the "pdump disable" request and sends
> -the request to the server. The server that is listening on the socket will take the request and disable the packet
> -capture by removing the Ethernet RX and TX callbacks for the given port or device_id and queue combinations. The server
> -also sends the response back to the client about the status of the request that was processed. After the response is
> -received from the server, the client socket is closed.
> +For the calls to these APIs from secondary process, the library creates the "pdump disable" request and sends
> +the request to the primary process over the multi process channel. The primary process takes this request and disables the packet capture by removing the Ethernet RX and TX callbacks for the given port or device_id and queue combinations.

I split this long line to multiple ~100 characters lines like the rest
of the document.

Applied, thanks.


-- 
David Marchand