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doc: clarify libnuma requirement for NUMA systems

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Since 18.05, libnuma is pretty much required on Linux when using
non-legacy mode, because without it, we cannot know where our
hugepages are located [1].

In legacy mode, libnuma is not required because we can still sort
pages by sockets, as we use pagemap lookup method to figure out
socket ID's for pages.

So, document libnuma as required for NUMA systems and non-legacy
mode.

[1] https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2018-December/120490.html

Fixes: 6b42f75632 ("eal: enable non-legacy memory mode")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
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@ -70,6 +70,15 @@ Compilation of the DPDK
* libnuma-dev in Debian/Ubuntu;
.. note::
On systems with NUMA support, `libnuma-dev` (aka `numactl-devel`)
is a recommended dependency when `--legacy-mem` switch is used,
and a *required* dependency if default memory mode is used.
While DPDK will compile and run without `libnuma`
even on NUMA-enabled systems,
both usability and performance will be degraded.
* Python, version 2.7+ or 3.2+, to use various helper scripts included in the DPDK package.