[ovs-dev] [PATCH] netdev-dpdk: add a command to dump vhost-user info.

Flavio Leitner fbl at redhat.com
Tue Nov 7 20:50:49 UTC 2017


On Tue, 7 Nov 2017 07:34:24 -0400
"Raymond Burkholder" <ray at oneunified.net> wrote:

> >   
> > > > Add a command to dump vhost-user's information.
> > > >  
> > >
> > > Thanks for the patch Flavio, I'll take a look in greater depth and test  
> later
> > this week. On a first pass through though, I'd like to see the command  
> being
> > added to the OVS DPDK vHost user how to also in documentation, just to
> > double up on the exposure that this command is available to users.
> > Thoughts?
> > 
> > Thanks for reviewing it!
> > 
> > It's not meant for regular users.  This is useful for debugging purposes  
> and it
> > exposes internal information which is subjected to change from version to
> > version, so I wouldn't add to those regular user facing guides.
> >   
> 
> Is there somewhere it can be documented?  A page with diagnostic commands?
> Or even in the regular docs, with a warning of 'for developer use only' or
> something?

It's in the man-page as other ovs-appctl commands.

-- 
Flavio


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