The options you are using should be correct. It looks like you didn't really enable DPDK support while compiling. Make sure to pass the appropriate option to ./configure
On 9/30/14, 8:35 AM, "Vinod, Chegu" <chegu_vi...@hp.com> wrote: >Hello, > >'had git cloned the OVS tree and was trying out the instructions given in >INSTALL.DPDK ('am using DPDK 1.7.0) and ran into this : > > ># ./vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd --dpdk -c 0x1 -n 4 --socket-mem 1024,0 >./vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd: invalid option -- 'n' -- unix:$DB_SOCK >--pidfile --detach > >./vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd: invalid option -- 'n' > >Could someone please let me know the correction option to use in the >above ? > >If there are updated INSTALL.DPDK or other documents to reflect the >current options to use OVS with dpdk please point to the same. > >Thanks! >Vinod > >_______________________________________________ >dev mailing list >dev@openvswitch.org >https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://openvswitch.org/mailman/ >listinfo/dev&k=oIvRg1%2BdGAgOoM1BIlLLqw%3D%3D%0A&r=MV9BdLjtFIdhBDBaw5z%2BU >6SSA2gAfY4L%2F1HCy3VjlKU%3D%0A&m=NrADh8RRcZ%2FAC4biM1WPNfhtxRqAIv3Z0Rev7Oq >VNXM%3D%0A&s=2a6202c531b977aa83f141fc7bb306cf124a07704e5d6dbd830ff31ef7c8c >b2f _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev