[ovs-discuss] How to specify the memory size for VM and OVS DPDK communication only?

[Bodireddy, Bhanuprakash]

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>Another question is:
>Why “-numa” option is needed to start the VM?

It's worth referring this link  http://download.qemu.org/qemu-doc.html  for all the information on the qemu arguments.

- Bhanuprakash.


>
>Wang Zhike
>
>From: 王志克
>Sent: Monday, July 03, 2017 9:06 PM
>To: ovs-discuss at openvswitch.org
>Subject: How to specify the memory size for VM and OVS DPDK
>communication only?
>
>Hi,
>
>I am reading OVS+DPDK, and it said hugetlbfs is needed for networking
>between VM and OVS. The question is:
>1) How to specify the VM memory for other purpose (non networking with
>OVS Host)? Is it possible to NOT use the hugetlbfs for non networking?
>2) If above is yes, what is the proper value for networking memory?
>
>
>http://docs.openvswitch.org/en/latest/topics/dpdk/vhost-
>user/?highlight=vhost-user
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>
>Thanks.
>
>Br,
>Wang Zhike