[ovs-dev] [PATCH] dpdk: Add commands to configure log levels.

David Marchand david.marchand at redhat.com
Thu Jul 2 15:35:16 UTC 2020


On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 12:04 PM Ilya Maximets <i.maximets at ovn.org> wrote:
>
> On 7/2/20 10:25 AM, David Marchand wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 12:05 AM Ilya Maximets <i.maximets at ovn.org> wrote:
> >> On 6/26/20 2:27 PM, David Marchand wrote:
> >>> Enabling debug logs in dpdk can be a challenge to be sure of what is
> >>> actually enabled, add commands to list and change those log levels.
> >>
> >> Could you, please, provide some usage examples?
> >> Maybe add some documentation about these commands.  And a NEWS update
> >> since this is a user visible change.
> >
> > In the documentation, example outputs could get outdated since we
> > directly pass dpdk output (/me still wants to shoot the dpdk global
> > log level that is just useless).
> > But I think it is still worth adding.
> >
> > I would see either in Documentation/howto/dpdk.rst or
> > Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst.
> > The latter seems the best fit: we have setup instructions, configuring
> > logs is close.
> > WDYT?
>
> install/dpdk.rst might be more appropriate.
> However, maybe it's enough to just create lib/dpdk-unixctl.man similar
> to lib/netdev-dpdk-unixctl.man ?  We need it anyway to keep man pages
> updated.

Indeed, I had missed this.
Thanks, will do.


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David Marchand



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