[ovs-dev] [PATCH v4 4/4] netdev-dpdk: Allow arbitrary eal arguments

[Panu Matilainen]

On 01/15/2016 10:02 PM, Aaron Conole wrote:
> A previous change moved some commonly used arguments from commandline to
> the database. This change allows arbitrary eal arguments to be provided
> via a new db entry 'other_config:dpdk-extra' which will tokenize the
> string and add it to the argument list.
>
> This patch removes 'defaulting' of socket-mem as it will conflict with
> attempts to pass --no-huge via the eal command line

Does OVS even work at all with --no-huge? I doubt it...

In any case, I'd think a sane default is more important than supporting 
a debugging-only option.

	- Panu -