This is a useful default for simple applications where the assignment
of lcores to CPUs doesn't matter. It's also useful for more complex
applications that automatically assign tasks to cores based on the
NUMA topology.
Signed-off-by: Rich Lane <rich.lane@bigswitch.com>
Since DPDK now has support for the in-tree uio_pci_generic driver,
update the GSG document to reference this module, and to use it
in preference to the igb_uio driver, which is DPDK-specific.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Removed references to Intel which
are no longer relevant in linux gsg.
Signed-off-by: Siobhan Butler <siobhan.a.butler@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
The 1.7 DPDK_Linux_GSG document in MSWord has been converted to rst format for
use with Sphinx. There is an rst file for each chapter and an index.rst file
which contains the table of contents.
This is the first document from a set of documents.
Signed-off-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>