From e3092b96f69b44abe22e8e65468c03245b7a9fd9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matias Elo <matias.elo@nokia.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 15:14:39 +0200
Subject: linux-generic: dpdk: pass ODP_PKTIO_DPDK_PARAMS environment variable
 to dpdk init

Pass ODP_PKTIO_DPDK_PARAMS environment variable to
rte_eal_init(). This can be used to pass DPDK only
configuration options from command line. E.g. configuring
vdev interfaces.

Signed-off-by: Matias Elo <matias.elo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Maxim Uvarov <maxim.uvarov@linaro.org>
---
 DEPENDENCIES | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

(limited to 'DEPENDENCIES')

diff --git a/DEPENDENCIES b/DEPENDENCIES
index 9fee177b6..0091f24ce 100644
--- a/DEPENDENCIES
+++ b/DEPENDENCIES
@@ -209,6 +209,11 @@ Prerequisites for building the OpenDataPlane (ODP) API
    $ cd <odp_dir>
    $ sudo ./test/performance/odp_l2fwd -i 0,1 -c 2 -m 0
 
+   Additionally, DPDK command line options can be passed to the application
+   using ODP_PKTIO_DPDK_PARAMS environment variable. For example, allocate
+   1024MB of memory:
+   $ sudo ODP_PKTIO_DPDK_PARAMS="-m 1024" ./test/performance/odp_l2fwd -i 0 -c 1
+
 4.0 Packages needed to build API tests
 
    Cunit test framework version 2.1-3 is required
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