For OVS the change to the config is ready for review. On update a user of the former DPDK_OPTS will get the common:
Configuration file '/etc/default/openvswitch-switch' ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation. ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version. What would you like to do about it ? Your options are: And when looking at it is is obvious what was going on for the user: --- /etc/default/openvswitch-switch 2016-10-04 10:06:19.043458386 +0000 +++ /etc/default/openvswitch-switch.dpkg-new 2016-10-04 09:07:08.000000000 +0000 @@ -7,5 +7,13 @@ # a suitable place to specify --ovs-vswitchd-wrapper=valgrind. # OVS_CTL_OPTS= -# DPDK options - see /usr/share/doc/openvswitch-common/INSTALL.DPDK.md.gz -DPDK_OPTS='--dpdk -c 0x1 -n 4' +# DPDK options are now configured via ovs-vsctl/ovsdb, see: +# - /usr/share/doc/openvswitch-common/INSTALL.DPDK.md.gz +# - /usr/share/doc/openvswitch-common/INSTALL.DPDK-ADVANCED.md.gz +# dpdk-extra is the fallback for users who formerly set e.g. +# '--vhost-owner libvirt-qemu:kvm --vhost-perm 0664' +# here or any other DPDK EAL arguments via DPDK_OPTS which are not covered by +# the default switches provided by ovs-vsctl. +# This is an arbitrary string that will get appended to the EAL commandline. +# For more on the new ovsdb based configuration of DPDK features, see: +# `man ovs-vswitchd.conf.db` -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1625542 Title: --vhost-owner --vhost-perm no more transferred to DPDK EAL commandline To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpdk/+bug/1625542/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
