[ovs-dev] [PATCH] docs: Add some detail about dpdk-socket-mem.

[Ben Pfaff]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 02:06:25PM +0100, Kevin Traynor wrote:
> On 04/24/2017 07:50 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 06:48:34PM +0100, Kevin Traynor wrote:
> >> Using dpdk-socket-mem to allocate memory for some NUMA nodes
> >> but leaving blank for subsequent ones is equivalent of assigning
> >> 0 MB memory to those subsequent nodes. Document this behavior.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>
> > 
> > Applied to master.  Thank you for working on the documentation!
> > 
> > (Let me know if this should be applied to any release branches.)
> > 
> 
> Well, it's probably not obvious that a trailing blank means 0 MB and
> those NUMA nodes will not be useable by the DPDK datapath, so could be
> useful info to have in 2.6/2.7 too.
> 
> It will apply cleanly on branch-2.7. I've sent separate patch for
> branch-2.6.

Thanks for thinking it through.  I crossported to branch-2.7 and applied
the separate patch to branch-2.6.